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Within the Math and Arts Honors Colloquium at Ball State U, students are inspired to explore and (re)discover various mathematics topics and create visualizations of math notions. Some of my students use Processing to create artistic math movies, and in the process they engage their familiarity with coordinate systems, linear transformations, fractals, random numbers, tessellations, whirls, image processing...
I discussed this course in my presentation at MathFest 2021 - here are the presentation slides.
2020 Alexander Perry created some fun animations, inspired by Matsko's blog post on josef-albers-and-interaction-of-color/
2019 Ben O'Brien created a Sierpinski Pentagon movie as part of his final project explorations; here's a link to our joint report at the Bridges conference 2019 in Linz, Austria.
2018 Daelen Ogas created a piece of Mathematical Art as part of her final project explorations, and her work was accepted in the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) Exhibition of Mathematical Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work was inspired by Kerry Mitchell's paper on whirls.
The Math&Art class is open to honors students of all majors: we explore the connections between mathematics and art/design. I observed that my students found new interest in mathematics while creating artistic images. Here are some particularly clever and beautiful examples of my students work:
Student 4 used randomized choices from a letter set to create this Matrix-like rain effect.
Student 3 combined translations and tessellations with linear/quadratic rates of change to create this piece of digital art.
Student 2 combined translations and tessellations with decision-making trees to create this piece of digital art.
Student 1 explored various degrees of growth and decay of functions which assign color, in combination with trigonometric alterations of the coordinate system to create this mathematical and artistic image, called Day and Night.
Here are some examples of my Spring 18 students video work. The math content is random numbers, fractals, self-similarity and whirls:
Spring 18 Final Project Examples:
Honr390_Student_Work_3.pdfHonrs390_Final_presentation_Student_3.pdfHonr390_Student_work_2.pdfHonr390_Final_Presentation_student_1.pdfI discussed this course in my presentation at MathFest 2021 - here are the presentation slides.
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