Shrine of Knowledge

Curiosity and a need for learning has been a vehicle for discoveries leading to better description of the systems we obey. Mathematics helped philosophers understand and depict basic structures, processes and products, then to develop tools for collecting facts and date, and improving our knowledge, as a basis for further discoveries.

There is always a bit of a mathematician in me, watching, analysing, and problem solving; especially when I make art.  In this gallery I plan to publish some pieces where mathematics was used in a crucial and clear way.  To start, I have added two drawings from the summer of 2016.  One day I was walking in the park and the most amazing impression of the soft light filtering through the leaves caught my attention.  I went home, got my colored pencils and markers, and sat myself under the tree; only to discover that the scene was way too complex to understand.

A difference bracelet consists of v beads. There are k beads of n colours and one black bead (v = k n + 1). The beads are arranged so that there are exactly λ equally coloured beads at each possible distance for every colour. The distance of a pair of beads is the number of moves to get from one to the other, either clockwise or counter-clockwise (every pair of beads has two distances). Such an arrangement is called a (v,k, λ) bracelet.