Art with a Mathematical Twist 69
Euler points out a story about art created through mathematics. The Science News article covers selections from a recent exhibit, where over 40 artists gathered to show their work and the math behind it. The rest of the pieces are also viewable at the exhibit's website.
"Michael Field, a mathematics professor at the University of Houston, finds artistic inspiration in his work on dynamical systems. A mathematical dynamical system is just any rule that determines how a point moves around a plane. Field uses an equation that takes any point on a piece of paper and moves it to a different spot. Field repeats this process over and over again--around 5 billion times--and keeps track of how often each pixel-sized spot in the plane gets landed on. The more often a pixel gets hit, the deeper the shade Field colors it."
Some great examples of mathematical art (Score:5, Informative)
- electricsheep: animated fractal flames: http://www.electricsheep.org/ [electricsheep.org] (I highly recommend running this as your screensaver, though it takes a bit for the first sheep to download)
- Jenn: pretty, shiny, blue(?) polytopes, rendered on your computer: http://www.math.cmu.edu/~fho/jenn/ [cmu.edu]
Anyone have any others?
IFS, fractal flames (Score:4, Informative)
Coincidentally, my captcha was "artful".
Re:Some great examples of mathematical art (Score:2, Informative)
New and yet not new (Score:4, Informative)
Others have pointed out Electric Sheep and Apophysis; these focus on one particular type of non-linear iterated function system, the "fractal flame". There are many other fractal rendering tools out there, some free, some not. Wikipedia has a list if you're interested. This is a medium that has been in constant change for twenty years and doesn't look like it's ready to settle down any time soon.
Context Free (Score:5, Informative)
As you can see from the link below, some of the results from this project are stunning.
Context Free Art gallery [contextfreeart.org].
Re:Some great examples of mathematical art (Score:2, Informative)
via:
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200705/chaoscope.html [nedbatchelder.com]
he also mentioned Jenn:
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200802/jenn_visualizing_polytopes.html [nedbatchelder.com]
Re:Mathematical Music (Score:3, Informative)
Processing (Score:4, Informative)
Perhaps the king of all environments (at least in my mind) is Processing [processing.org]. It is a Java based environment created by Ben Fry [benfry.com] and Casey Reas [reas.com]. It's open source, has a huge active community [processing.org], and plenty of 3rd party libraries [processing.org] for exploring things like computer vision, audio, physics, ray tracing, AI, etc.
There are a ton of really talented people doing cool things in Processing. Too many to list here, check out the Exhibition [processing.org] page for things to play around with.
Escher (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Roman Verostko (Score:2, Informative)