Articles for Math 122: Math in Art
(Last modified: Friday, August 24, 2012, 1:59 PM )

Some selected fun, interesting & relevant articles from Ivars Peterson's weekly series Math Trek and other sources:

• Systems of Proportion
  • Medieval Harmony (music - missing most of the images, but readable and has some some links)
  • An adaptation of Stonehenge in New Zealand
• Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers
  • Golden Blossoms, Pi Flowers(flowers)
  • A Fibonacci Fountain (sculpture)
• Perspective
  • Art of the Grid (anamorphic art -- missing most of the images, but has some links)
  • Sphere Worlds(painting; perspective)
• 4th Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry
  • A Stranger from Spaceland (discussing Flatland)
  • Immersed in Klein Bottles (glass-blowing)
  • Hyperbolic 5 (textiles, graphic design)
  • Anatomy of a Bead Creature(beading; non-Euclidean Geometry)
• Fractals
  • Math in Arcadia (theatre-missing a lot of the images, but readable)
  • Pascal's Fractals (graphic design)

    To create some of these fun triangles yourself, go to this website

  • Visiting Artlandia (graphic design)
  • Dancing Chaos (music)
  • Jackson Pollock's fractals (painting)
  • Geometry Out of Africa (textiles, sand drawings -- and a link to Latvian needlework)
  • Fractured Granite and Fractal Prints (sculpture & prints; fractals)
• Symmetry
  • Geometry Out of Africa (textiles, sand drawings -- and a link to Latvian needlework)
  • Sand Drawings and Mirror Images (drawings)
  • Perception Psychology: Visual Structure of a Japanese Zen Garden
• Miscellaneous
  Teaching a computer to spot a bogus Bruegel(Using math to authenticate artworks)When art and math collide(An exhibit on mathematical art)
  • Mathematical Art on Display (this discusses a long-gone exhibit, but has lots of links to mathematical art. Some links are also long-gone, but some are really cool.)
  • Fractal Roots and Artful Math(another long-gone exhibit, with more cool links to mathematical art of many different types)
  • Squaring Circles(not exactly art, but still cool)
  • Artful Routes(graphic design)
  • Art of Pursuit (graphic design)
  • Mozart's Melody Machine (music)
  • Sculpture Generator (scultpure, of course!)
  • Art of the Tetrahedron (sculpture)

    To see some of the sculptures described in this article, go to this website of Arthur Silverman's work

  • Sculpting with a Twist(sculpture)
  • A Minimal Winter's Tale (sculpture -- in the snow)
  • White Narcisssus (more snow sculpture)
  • A Snowy Twist(still more snow sculpture)
  • A Graceful Sculpture's Showy Snow Crash (and still more snow scultpure)
  • Art Tied Up(a variety of media; knot theory)