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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
In geometry, a spidron is a continuous flat geometric figure composed entirely of triangles, where, for every pair of joining triangles, each has a leg of the other as one of its legs, and neither has any point inside the interior of the other. A deformed spidron is a three-dimensional figure sharing the other properties of a specific spidron, as if that spidron were drawn on paper, cut out in a single piece, and folded along a number of legs.
TSP art is a type of line art based on the Traveling Salesman Problem. An image is first discretized into black points on a white background. The points are then treated as “cities” in the TSP problem. An approximate solution to the TSP problem is calculated and drawn. The result is striking approximation to the original image. Remarkably, the path never crosses itself. Read more here.
Dice Sculptures by Tony Cragg
Various sculptures delicately configured with thousands of dice. Good thing he didnt botch.
(via: colossal)
‘Chalk and sun on sidewalk.’ photo by M R McDonald
submitted by betteburgoyne@gmail.com
Sierpinski chalk art!
(Source: awainwright)
Beautiful geometric construction. The spirals are a nice touch.
Inspired by the story of Andrew Wiles and his imaginative intra- and interdisciplinary proof of Fermat’s last theorem, artist David Colosi has constructed a dark labyrinthine space which doubles as the interior of a mathematical equation and the laboratory used for its generation. Wiles described his experience of mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. “One goes into the first room, and it’s dark, completely dark. One stumbles around bumping into the furniture. Gradually you learn where each piece of furniture is, and finally after six months or so, you find a light switch, you turn it on and suddenly it’s all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were.” This aptly describes the space Colosi has constructed and his process of construction.
