Homework:
Projects:
Project | Brief description | Due date |
1 | Read a book or article on math in art | 4/29/05 |
2 | Create work rigorously using proportion | 2/11/05 |
3 | Analyze Seurat's La Parade for evidence of the Golden Ratio | 3/4/05 |
4 | Create work incorporating Golden Ratio and/or Fibonacci numbers | 3/11/05 |
5 | Draw house using 3D coordinates & perspective formulae | 4/1/05 |
6 | Create work using perspective techniques developed in class | 4/8/05 |
7 | Create work of anamorphic art | 4/15/05 |
8 | Construct "unfolded" hypercube, identifying connecting faces | 4/22/05 |
9 | Read Flatland; write description of contraints on life in 2D | 4/29/05 |
10 | Speculate on life in 4th dimension, based on sound mathematics | 4/29/05 |
11 | Create a model of the hyperbolic plane-beads, crochet, or sewn | 5/4/05 |
12 | Create a fractal using the recursive process | 5/4/05 |
Some selected fun, interesting & relevant articles from Ivars Peterson's weekly series Math Trek and other sources:
To create some of these fun triangles yourself, go to this website
To see some of the sculptures described in this article, go to this website of Arthur Silverman's work