Awake

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awake

Focus

focus

A Mandala Made of Hexagons, Enneagons, and Dodecagons

recreational math from 2011

I recently re-discovered this “lost work,” which I made using Geometer’s Sketchpad, in 2011 — before I started this blog, which is why it has not appeared here before.

Imp: A Painting from 2004

imp 2004

The medium I used for this 2004 painting, Imp, was acrylic on canvas. It turns out I have blogged this before, here, and I did not mean to create a duplicate post — but the colors appear different in the two photographs, so I have decided to leave them both on-line, anyway.

Op Art from 2010

op art from 2010

I recently found this “lost artwork” I made in 2010, two years before starting this blog. Traditionally, “op art” is black and white, only — but “traditionally” is a word seldom applied to anything I do, and I see no reason to change that now.

A Forgotten Mandala, from 2010

Someone found this, and “liked” it, in my old Facebook pictures. I had forgotten all about it, until this happened. It is a mandala, made of rhombi, with nine-fold symmetry, made in 2010 with Geometer’s Sketchpad — two years before I started this blog.

from 2010

Reflected Rainbows

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complicated

My Mental Jukebox

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My mental jukebox’s default setting is “on,” which is nice. Usually, I can even consciously choose what to listen to, and it doesn’t cost me a cent.

Two Versions of a Slowly Rotating Rhombic Triacontahedron, Adorned with Spectral Patterns on Each Face

Rhombic Triaconta

It took three programs to make this. First, outlines of the “double rainbow” patterns on each face were constructed using Geometer’s Sketchpad. A screenshot from that program was then pasted into MS-Paint, which was used to add color to the outline of the pattern on each face. Next, the colorized image was projected onto each face of a rhombic triacontahedron, using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator — the program that put this all together, and what I used to generate the rotating .gif above. Stella is available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php, with a free trial download available.

Interestingly, while this polyhedron itself is not chiral, the coloring-pattern of it, shown above, is.

With only small modifications, Stella can produce a very different version:

Rhombic Triaconta

Which one do you like better?

99% of Critical

99 percent of critical

Created using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator, software which is available for either purchase, or a free trial download, right here.