Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Here's an interesting exploration, illustration courtesy of Mathematica:
There's a nice animated illustration at Mathematica.
A particularly interesting case of a roulette is a regular n-gon rolling on a "road" composed of a sequence of truncated catenaries, as illustrated above. This motion is smooth in the sense that the geometric centroid follows ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Here's a very geek way to impress your geek friends. asciiTeX!
Like the name says, asciiTeX takes input similar to that for LaTex and renders mathematical equations in plain ASCII. Wow!
Check it out at Sourceforge.net.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({
title: "Have you seen asciiTeX?",
url: "http://wildaboutmath.com/2010/07/23/have-you-seen-asciitex/"
});
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
From TED:
At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 -- the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated.
Here's some biographical information on Mandelbrot:
Studying complex dynamics in the 1970s, Benoit Mandelbrot ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
In my neck of the woods in northern New Mexico, the Fractal Foundation lives the mission of inspiring interest in science, Math, and Art through the beauty of fractals. The Foundation puts on fractal-related programs in schools and takes them on the road. The Foundation also sponsors a very popular ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Phi, also known as the golden ratio or the divine proportion, is one of the great mathematical constants. It is equal to a little more than 1.6 and is a most interesting irrational (but not transcendental) number. Phi has a fascinating connection with the Fibonacci series, it can be derived ...
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