Projects for Math 122: Math in Art
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    • General Description of How Projects Fit Into This Course
    • You do not have to do every project (see above link for more information), but each project has a date by which it is due, a week or two after we finished talking about the relevant topic.
    • Projects will generally be due on Fridays.
    • See course policies for my policies on late projects.
    • Below is a very brief description of each project, along with due dates, and maximum points available. For a more complete description of any particular project, click on that project's number at the far left.


    Brief Description of project      Due date      Maximum points

    9 Visit a museum; mathematically discuss     4/28/17     20

    10Read a book or article on math in art     4/28/17      at least 50 (long book)
    35 (Flatland or similar)
    20 (10-20 page article)
    10 (shorter article)

    1Create work rigorously using proportion      2/17/17     35 (15 or more measurements)
    20 (7-10 measurements)
    15 (fewer measurements)

    2 Analyze Seurat's La Parade for evidence      3/3/17     30 (>= 16 good prospects)
    of the Golden Ratio20 (10 good prospects)
    10 (5 good prospects)

    3Create work incorporating Golden Ratio      3/10/17     55 (extensive/varied use and
    and/or Fibonacci numbers and analysis of the resulting
    work)

    4Draw house using given      3/24/17      35 (if extensively)
    3D coordinates and perspectivepersonalized)
    formulae20 (if no personalization)

    5 (Group; you'll divide the score among you)     3/31/17     100 (divided) (50 or more coordinates)
    Graph a perspective image of a room, by 65 (divided) (30 coordinates)
    collecting 3D points and using perspective40 (divided) (for 20 coordinates), etc
    formulae

    6Create work using perspective techniques      4/14/17     55 (extensive/varied use and
    developed in classanalysis of viewing position)

    7Create work of anamorphic art     4/14/17     30 (create grid & find viewing distance)
    20 (find viewing distance for given grid)
    15 (art alone)
    (Optional) Perspective grid for Project 7
    (Optional) Corresponding Straight grid

    8Create a fractal using the recursive     4/28/17     35 (if 3-4 steps & find dim.)
    process20 (if 3-4 steps)

    11 Read Flatland; write a description of      5/5/17     45 (substantial and sound, from book)
    constraints on life in 2D(25 if read Flatland for Proj 10)
    25 (substantial, sound; from movie)

    12Construct "unfolded" hypercube,      5/5/17     25 (3D & correctly colored)
    identifying connecting faces

    13Write a speculation on life in the 4th      5/5/17     30 (sound & creative)
    dimension, based on sound math


    Janice Sklensky
    Wheaton College
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Science Center, Room 1306
    Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
    TEL (508) 286-3973
    FAX (508) 285-8278
    sklensky_janice@wheatoncollege.edu


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