A Science News article covers selections from a recent exhibit,
whereover 40 artists gathered to show their work and the math behind
it.The rest of the pieces are also viewable at the exhibit's website.
SCIENCE NEWS :: Week of Feb. 16, 2008; Vol. 173, No. 7
Math on Display: Visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork
Mathematicians often rhapsodize about the austere elegance of a well-
wrought proof. But math also has a simpler sort of beauty that is
perhaps easier to appreciate: It can be used to create objects
thatare just plain pretty—and fascinating to boot.
That beauty was richly on display at an exhibition of mathematical
art at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego in January, where
morethan 40 artists showed their creations.
Michael Field, a mathematics professor at the University of Houston,
finds artistic inspiration in his work on dynamical systems. A
mathematical dynamical system is just any rule that determines how
apoint moves around a plane. Field uses an equation that takes
anypoint on a piece of paper and moves it to a different spot. Field
repeats this process over and over again—around 5 billion times—and
keeps track of how often each pixel-sized spot in the plane gets
landed on. The more often a pixel gets hit, the deeper the shade Field
colors it. ...
Article: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080216/mathtrek.asp
Exhibit site: http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm08/
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