Math Art: Student Sliceforms
As a project in my Calculus course, students built sliceforms. Some of them turned out quite beautifully!
Sliceforms highlight the way we can use two-dimensional cross-sections to understand and represent surfaces in three dimensions.
You can see more examples of student sliceforms here, on my Facebook page.
2 Comments
Sam Shah · January 2, 2013 at 6:20 pm
These are beautiful! I’m having my kids do this in my multivariable calculus class (as we are talking about level curves, and each piece is just a slice in the x and y directions)…
I am wondering when you do this in your calculus class? What calculus skills/concepts does this tie up to?
Sam
MrHonner · January 3, 2013 at 5:53 pm
These sliceforms were created by one of my multivariable students. As you point out, they are great for reinforcing level curves and traces. It’s also a nice way to see how objects of different dimensions interact.