February 4, 2012: Share some math sculptures

[Maria Droujkova]

This Saturday, let us share our favorite math sculptures - photos or videos work, even virtual sculptures would do. If you made it yourself, even better!

One of my favorite 3D math art things is the hyperbolic crochet coral reef:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKhi0x4Ni4 

http://crochetcoralreef.org/exhibitions/art_center.php 

What I like about crochet as a math medium: you can repeat a very simple pattern in stitches (for example, make a double every next stitch), and produce very complex and beautiful results.

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Maria Droujkova
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[Garrett, Sandra]

One of my favorite artists is Piet Mondrian. I like the use of shapes and colors, and students can learn such terms as vertical, horizontal, perpendicular, parallel, converge, diverge, diagonal, perimeter, and area. A 3-D look at work inspired by him: http://youtu.be/t0lTAXYFq5A

I also found a sample math lesson using his work at http://www.storyboardtoys.com/gallery/Piet-Mondrian.htm

I like that materials such as legos or Rubics cubes could also be used in a classroom in connection with his work.

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[Maria Droujkova]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Garrett, Sandra <sgar...@arcadia.edu> wrote:

One of my favorite artists is Piet Mondrian. I like the use of shapes and colors, and students can learn such terms as vertical, horizontal, perpendicular, parallel, converge, diverge, diagonal, perimeter, and area. A 3-D look at work inspired by him: http://youtu.be/t0lTAXYFq5A

I also found a sample math lesson using his work at http://www.storyboardtoys.com/gallery/Piet-Mondrian.htm

I like that materials such as legos or Rubics cubes could also be used in a classroom in connection with his work.

It's interesting the Mondrian work looks so beautiful to us. Grids are the backbone of many art pieces, but usually you don't see them explicitly!

I once made a lesson about Mondrian (for Florida Virtual School, if I remember correctly) where students wrote equations of lines with zero or infinite slopes to create their artpiece. Then the software colored it randomly. 

[Garrett, Sandra]

"Grids are the backbone of many art pieces, but usually you don't see them explicitly!" 

I think this is the reason I immediately thought of Mondrian when I read this assignment.  I can easily see the "math" in his lines, shapes, and angles. Though other scultpures are beautiful or interesting to me, I can't always translate them to their math operations.

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[Kathy]

Wow! I would love to be able to crochet simple flowers to use on the
hats that I make from recycled wool sweaters. These constructions are
beautiful, and they really do look like coral.

On Feb 4, 8:01 pm, Maria Droujkova <droujk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This Saturday, let us share our favorite math sculptures - photos or videos
> work, even virtual sculptures would do. If you made it yourself, even
> better!
>
> One of my favorite 3D math art things is the hyperbolic crochet coral

> reef:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKhi0x4Ni4http://crochetcoralreef.org/exhibitions/art_center.php

[Kathy]

This artist, Jennieer Maestre does 3-D designs out of pencils and
nails. It's amazing how organic they seem.

http://www.jennifermaestre.com/portfolio.php

On Feb 4, 8:01 pm, Maria Droujkova <droujk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This Saturday, let us share our favorite math sculptures - photos or videos
> work, even virtual sculptures would do. If you made it yourself, even
> better!
>
> One of my favorite 3D math art things is the hyperbolic crochet coral

> reef:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKhi0x4Ni4http://crochetcoralreef.org/exhibitions/art_center.php

[Maria Droujkova]

This is an incredible technique. It made me think of calculus ideas - how you can approximate a surface or a curving line with small straight intervals or squares. Gorgeous - WOW!

[Haeberle, Laura]

 I researched one sculptor, named Bathsheba Grossman. She does 3D printing in metal, and the results are amazing. Here are some of her math-based pieces. I think my favorite is Borromean Rings. http://www.bathsheba.com/math/

And then here's a Wikipedia article about her, if anyone is interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathsheba_Grossman