All these snow curves seem fractal to me.
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Math and Art: Curvefitting With Geogebra
Here is some student work from a recent project I conducted on fitting curves to images in Geogebra. The details of the assignment can be found here, and more examples of student work can be seen on my Facebook page.
Students were asked to find pictures and use Geogebra to fit trigonometric curves to the images using transformations. Here are some of the results.
Smart Water = Smart Curves
My Good-Looking Windowsill
Sine of Camel Humps
Overall, I was really impressed with the creativity the students showed, and their facility with fitting these curves to the forms! A mathematical and artistic success in my book.
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Math and Art: Shadows and Triangles
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Math and Art: Dancing Bubble Sort
This is a fun and whimsical demonstration of bubble sorting through dance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQPjUT5B4
The dancers arrange themselves in numerical order in the same manner one would bubble sort an unordered list. One by one, each number “compares” himself with the number on his left; if they are out of order, they switch places. Make you’re way down the list, and start again at the front. Repeat until no one switches places and voila! everyone’s in order!
And just to be thorough, the troupe does dance-representations of Insert-Sort, Shell-Sort, and Select-Sort algorithms as well!
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Math and Art: Custom Pi Necklace
My contribution to Pi Day Celebrations: a student-made necklace that encodes the first 80 or so digits of pi in beads!
Starting with the pendant as 3, the student carefully strung the beads in a circle (clockwise) according to the following mapping:
Thus, you can read off 3.14159265358, and so on. A truly thoughtful, creative, and inspired work! I think the student’s original inspiration might have been this other pi-themed necklace.
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