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2023 Global Math Art Contest (Desmos)
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sobriquet
2024-02-03 20:57:26 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art


My entry for the contest was this one (better luck next year):

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
Chris M. Thomasson
2024-02-04 05:43:35 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
That is a nice gasket!
sobriquet
2024-02-04 10:10:26 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
That is a nice gasket!
Thx.. I hope I can somehow find a way to make it more flexible, where you set
a limit on the size of circles and generate all the ones of that size or larger.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xaxtb5v4xj
Ross Finlayson
2024-02-04 18:01:27 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
That is a nice gasket!
Thx.. I hope I can somehow find a way to make it more flexible, where you set
a limit on the size of circles and generate all the ones of that size or larger.
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xaxtb5v4xj
I'm enjoying this book Maor's and Jost's "Beautiful Geometry".

It has a Sierpinski looking triangle embedding on the front.

It details a bunch of cool results in geometry, explains things
like "there are 400+ proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem"
and these sorts things.
sobriquet
2024-02-04 20:05:37 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
That is a nice gasket!
Thx.. I hope I can somehow find a way to make it more flexible, where you set
a limit on the size of circles and generate all the ones of that size or larger.
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/xaxtb5v4xj
I'm enjoying this book Maor's and Jost's "Beautiful Geometry".
It has a Sierpinski looking triangle embedding on the front.
It details a bunch of cool results in geometry, explains things
like "there are 400+ proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem"
and these sorts things.
Ah, it's on libgen. Seems like a nice book with lots of illustrations..
Mathin3D
2024-02-05 20:09:14 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
2 simple
sobriquet
2024-02-06 01:30:49 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
2 simple
Abstract art doesn't have to be complicated. Just a few shapes or color combinations
can be visually pleasing.

https://imgbox.com/g/6MZXtmrNn4
Ross Finlayson
2024-02-06 02:01:43 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
2 simple
Abstract art doesn't have to be complicated. Just a few shapes or color combinations
can be visually pleasing.
https://imgbox.com/g/6MZXtmrNn4
Susanne Langer has a theory of art.

Some have that art is sex and death, others that it's what you like.

(This is a usual "I don't know what art is, but I know what I like".)

Most have that it's expression and the interpretation as expression.

T.E. Hulme had a sort of theory of art.

Sobriquet, I was going to mention Clifford Pickover, I must imagine
you're familiar with him.

Lots of people like Piet Mondrian, blocks and such.

Kant has his judgments in aesthetics.

There's a really great portrait artist, Sargent.

Most people like Renoir, Manet, Monet, Magritte, impressionists getting
into surrealism and abstract artists. I get the impression that
impressionists are myopic realists with nice brush-work.

Lots of people learned computer graphics from "Foley and Van Dam", and
"Graphics Gems", you know, "know your Bresenham" and "what's a
ray-tracer" and such. "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice".
There was a magazine called "Game Developer", "Gamasutra". Graphic Art
has a lot going on.



In junior high we used Turbo Pascal to print a bunch of offset circles
everywhere and made a pleasing effect, though, they say some things
aren't meant for epileptics, where according to epileptology some
visions will drive some people to fits. When I started it was just
"poke" to set the value of a pixel on the Commodore64.

I discovered fractint when it was a popular code, my favorite is where
the coloring algorithm, shows the main in monochrome, then the details
in color, as what it's a pleasing visual effect that is sort of like the
optical behavior of light.

I haven't reviewed your entry but sort of appreciate your aesthetics.
It reminds me of the annual fair, where artists and craftspeople would
bring in their works for the goal of "a ribbon", and especially "the
blue ribbon". It's easier than getting into a French salon.



The theory of light has a lot going on.

If you can see a greater depth of color than usual people,
it's considered fortuitous, I would trade it for literacy, though.


Yeah that Maor and Jost is pretty great, both interesting mathematics
and well put together.


Anyways Sobriquet has about the most photogenic profile here, just the
way it is.
Chris M. Thomasson
2024-02-06 05:58:43 UTC
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https://www.desmos.com/art
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qapvxo8fpi
2 simple
Abstract art doesn't have to be complicated. Just a few shapes or color combinations
can be visually pleasing.
https://imgbox.com/g/6MZXtmrNn4
That is a good point. :^)

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