Geometry of Pasta
This is a fun slideshow of images from architect George Legendre’s book “Pasta by Design”
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/using-his-noodle/
The slideshow, from the on-line New York Times Style magazine, shows a few different renderings of pasta shapes. The book, apparently, contains actual cooking directions as well as these technical schematics.
It appears as though Legendre used a graphing utility like Mathematica or Maple to sketch out his pastas. A creative, and fun, application of this technology!
2 Comments
Sol Lederman · October 21, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Mathematica users might enjoy these pasta “recipes”:
http://playingwithmathematica.com/2011/06/05/mathematica-pasta-recipes/
Sol at my other blog
MrHonner · October 22, 2011 at 9:19 am
That’s great stuff, Sol! Even though it’s mostly random, I think I like the spaghetti graph the best. Thanks for sharing.