This is “Skunks”, by Wouter Kersteman, on display at the 2012 Bridges Math and Art Conference at Towson University.
Read more about the artist and his work here.
Appreciation Art Geometry Student Work Teaching
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.
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Math Art: Mobius Poetry
Here are two pieces by Barry Cipra on display at the 2012 Bridges Math and Art Conference at Towson University. These stories, written on Mobius strips, have no beginning or end!
Read more about the artist and his work here.
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Math Art: PolyPuzzle Super Sphere
This is “Blue Green Super Sphere”, by Robert Stowell, on display at the 2012 Bridges Math and Art Conference at Towson University.
This was created using PolyPuzzle, a system that laser-cuts paper pieces to high precision. You can see the three different kinds of pieces here, in blue, green, and purple.
You can see more from the artist at the PolyPuzzle blog.
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Math Art: Solid Relationships
This is Martin Levin’s “Relationships Between Some Platonic Solids”, on display at the 2012 Bridges Math and Art Conference at Towson University.
Read more about the artist and his work here.