learning geometry for artists?

Question

In highschool we learned geometry separate from algebra, all with the same teacher. I would get 100% in geometry and failing grades in algebra. I later read in the arts and now have a PHd in psychology. I am from a family of artists and find my drawings and etchings tend towards repeated patterns and symetry. I recently started reading King of Infinite Space by Siobhen Roberts, a biography of Donald Coxeter. It is an excellent book and has rekindled a curiosity about geometry. Would you recommend I read Coxeter's books or vis there another route for someone who is interested in learning more geometry but still wanting to avoid algebre?

Answer 1

Why not judge for yourself what you like or not?

Two classics :

• Hilbert (1932) Geometry and the Imagination
• Coxeter (1967) Geometry Revisited

More recent :

• Mumford (2006) Indra's pearls The vision of Felix Klein
  (a very nice book with some algebra...)
• Ebert (2003) Texturing & Modeling - A procedural approach
  (a personal choice for the Worlds we may create using a computer...)

A list at Amazon Geometry and Beyond.