Using a physics-based modeling procedure, I created several models of Hyperbolic space by assembling seven-sided polygons.
Not a lot of time for blog posts toward the end of the semester. Besides classes, one of the things that kept me busy was giving several public talks about the current state of AI. (That’s what happens when you teach a Machine Learning class during a media tidal wave about AI!) In preparation for
Simulating hand-sketched objects with a polar pen plotter.
Last week I was lucky enough to attend a talk by Margaret Wertheim, in the art department at Pomona College. For those who don’t know her, Margaret is a science writer who has been engaged with the Crochet Coral Reef mathematical art project for over 17 years, along with her sister, artist Christine Wertheim. In
Experiments with laser-cut cylindrical designs to make shadows.
Creating distorted spherical pen plots whose shadows look correct.
This week I describe some experiments with my new spherical pen plotter.
My last post was back in December of 2019, just as I was leaving the Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics in Province, RI. Unless you’ve been in a multi-year hibernation, you’ll note that this was just a few months before the pandemic disrupted everything, which is part of the reason this blog went on
I’m writing this while I wait for my plane home from Providence, RI. Yesterday was the last day of a semester long program at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics (ICERM) on the topic of “Illustrating Mathematics.” I was fortunate enough to be one of the organizers of this program, although I could only
In my last post I brazenly announced that in the sequel I would explain why there are usually two sets of spirals on a pinecone, and both are Fibonacci in number. When I went to write this all down, it turned out to be much harder than I expected! So much so that I decided to