Spring 2003
(Last modified: Monday, March 24, 2003, 4:29 PM )
| Monday | Wednesday | Friday | |||
| 1/27 | Introduction | 1/29 | The Great Pyramid | 1/31 | The Mean and Extreme Ratio |
| The Mean and Extreme Ratio | Golden Ratio in the Pyramid | ||||
| Proportions | Assignment 0 due | ||||
| 2/3 | Golden Ratio in Pyramid: aliens? | 2/5 | Similar Figures | 2/7 | More with Similarity |
| Pizza Cutter Method | Greek Puzzles: gnomons | ||||
| Squaring the Circle | Problem Set 1 due | Topic proposal, literature search | |||
| 2/10 | More with Gnomons | 2/12 | The Golden Rectangle | 2/14 | Fibonacci Numbers and Their |
| The Golden Rectangle in Art | Connection With Phi | ||||
| Problem Set 2 due | Project 1 due | ||||
| 2/17 | Answer HW Questions | 2/19 | Creating a Perspective Machine | 2/21 | Setting the Stage for Perspective |
| Video: Life By the Numbers | Art Show | ||||
| (if time) | Problem Set 3 due | Intro to 3-space | |||
| 2/24 | Intro to 3-space | 2/26 | Practice plotting points and | 2/28 | Using 3-space to draw |
| calculating distance in 3-space | perspective images | ||||
| Detailed Project Proposal Due | |||||
| 3/3 | Using 3-space to draw | 3/5 | Using Excel to draw more | 3/7 | Vanishing Points |
| perspective images | complicated images in | ||||
| perspective | Problem Set 4 due | ||||
| 3/10 | Finding the correct viewing position | 3/12 | Rules of Perspective | 3/14 | Duplicating rectangles in perspective |
| Subdividing rectangles | Summary of Math for Project due | ||||
| Problem Set 5 due | Brief summary for the class, also | ||||
| 3/17 | 3/19 | 3/21 | |||
| Spring Break | |||||
| 3/24 | Motivation for Symmetry | 3/26 | Moratorium | 3/28 | Rigid Motions |
| Rigid Motions | Reflections | ||||
| Problem Set 6 due | |||||
| 3/31 | Rotations | 4/2 | Translations | 4/4 | Reflections |
| Rough sketch, math analysis due | |||||
| Project 2 due | Problem Set 7 due | Art Show | |||
| 4/7 | Classifying based on Symmetry | 4/9 | Classifying based on Symmetry | 4/11 | Classifying border patterns |
| Problem Set 8 due | Project 3 due | ||||
| 4/14 | Classifying border patterns | 4/16 | Classifying wallpaper patterns | 4/18 | Classifying wallpaper patterns |
| Art Show | |||||
| Problem Set 9 due | Rough draft of paper, good artwork | ||||
| 4/21 | Symmetry of Scale | 4/23 | The Sierpinski Gasket | 4/25 | Recursion |
| The Koch Snowflake | Fractional Dimension | Complex Numbers | |||
| Problem Set 10 due | Project 4 due | ||||
| 4/28 | The Mandelbrot Set | 4/30 | Hyperspace | 5/2 | Hyperspace |
| Problem Set 11 due | Art Show | ||||
| Final draft of paper, artwork | |||||
| 5/5 | 5/7 | Presentations on projects | 5/9 | ||