May 6, 2007

(Math & Art) 3 or more dimensions

Penrose Tiling is a aperiodic tiling. The discovery of Penrose tiling was a break-thru in mathematics and crystallography with great ramifications (e.g. material science). The beauty of aperiodic tilings is that their orderliness is subtle


plot of a iteration process (Mandelbrot set).

A plot of the complex-valued function (z-2)^2(z+1-2*i)(z+2+2*i)/z^3. By Hans Lundmark, 2004

The real part of the discriminant as a function of the nome q on the unit disk”, by Linas Vepstas


A dodecahedron formed by pentagonal rings, by Michael Trott

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