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Submitted by Oliver Labs on
This is the 3d-data for the 3d-printing of four small math sculptures, whose shape is described by precise mathematical formulas. All four represent classical mathematical curves or surfaces, namely the following: Barth Sextic, Dini Surface, Parabolic Cylinder and Plane (called Tülle), Rational Normal Curve. The data is in STL-format, and have a wall thickness of approximately 0.7mm, and a wire thickness of 3mm.
Submitted by IMAGINARY on
SURFER is a program designed to make everybody feel like a mathematician. The program is a bridge between art and math. Everybody can participate in the dialogue between algebraic equations and pictures of algebraic surfaces in an interactive and aesthetic way. In this paper we will introduce the program and its potential in math art, education and communication. The program was originally developed for the IMAGINARY exhibition, a project by the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.
Submitted by Sebastian Uribe on
This paper presented at the BRIDGES conference 2013 provides a brief overview of the main steps needed for organizing a math art exhibition. As IMAGINARY visited more locations, we realized the need for providing some hints and advice based on the experience of former exhibitions. Our goal is to motivate you to make your own exhibition and to contribute to the IMAGINARY platform with your own exhibits.
Submitted by IMAGINARY on
Martmatics is a project to show how Mathematics and Art have been related to each other throughout history and how they are still linked today. There are many bonds and the authors have chosen the most attractive and significant ones. You will find a brochure and also an activity book with excercices to accompany the examples from the brochure.
Submitted by Paul Salomon on
“Yoshimoto Shorts” is a pair of stop-motion animations made to show off the wonderful properties of the Yoshimoto cube.
Submitted by Alexander Kröller on
The Art Gallery problem is a classic problem in Computational Geometry: Given an art gallery (a polygon), how many stationary guards do you need to guard it? We show practical applications of this problem and how it can be solved.
Submitted by Michel Darche on
C. F. Gauss (1777-1855) showed that it is impossible to preserve all ratios of distances when drawing a planar map of a region of the Earth. But do we need to sacrifice everything?
Submitted by Michel Darche on
Have you already remarked that the middle of the day (or solar noon) is not always at the same time on your watch? The sunset is sooner on December 10 than at the winter solstice. If you observe the Sun at noon every day, then its position draws a figure eight curve, called analemma, with endpoints at the winter and summer solstices.
Submitted by Michel Darche on
From the inner core to the surface the Earth temperature decreases. This induces convection movements in the Earth’s mantle. The warmer magma moves closer to the surface where it cools down. It then sinks inside the mantle and a new cycle is started. This induces movements of the rigid tectonic plates at the surface, and shears.
Submitted by Michel Darche on
Telecommunications, navigation, meterorology, etc., but also cell phones, GPS, Internet, provide numerous reasons to install satellites orbiting around the Earth. For this purpose, mathematicians select and optimise trajectories and orbits of spacecrafts with more and sophisticated techniques.