A Great Resource for Math + Art Articles
We discovered Plus while looking for connections between math and art. Plus has a great collection of relevant articles and interviews. Here’s how they describe themselves: Plus is an internet magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics. A lot of people don’t have a very clear idea what “real” maths consists of,...
Read MoreLooking Back at the Future – The History of Computer Art
Computers and art have been associated for a very long time. A. Michael Noll created his work by programming an IBM 7090 computer at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ in 1962. Noll’s interest in abstract art informed his experiments, and many early works referred to 20th century masters like Mondrian and Picasso. Noll went on to create stereographic 3D computer animated movies of...
Read MoreHarmonious Connections
Another math / music resource: Math and Music: Harmonious Connections by Trudi Hammel Garland “explores the music of various cultures and the sounds heard in nature while highlighting the mathematical concepts, such as proportion, patterns, Fibonacci numbers, geometric transformations, and trigonometry, found in music.”
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