MetaFilter posts tagged with mathematics and art

art and science folded together

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:54:29 -0800

MetaFilter's Eric Gjerde has just come out with a book, Origami Tessellations: Awe-Inspiring Geometric Designs. Eric also makes really unusual, complex and mathematically interesting origami. His site has all kinds of cool things to look at and explore, like Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament, Joel Cooper's amazing paper sculptures and Ernst Haeckel's awesome book, Kunst-Formen der Natur. Previously.

art with a lot of concept

moonbizcut — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:57:47 -0800

Fate, Absolute Life and Death, the Aleph, the Zeitgeist, the sinking of the Atlantis, the World Trade Center, the formation of the universe...what more could you want from art? There's probably already been a been a post on this guy, Paul Laffoley, but I should hope more people could get a glance at some of this man's work. Crazy or brilliant, you make your decision. A video from his website.

What kind of a sculpture would Metafilter represent?

Gyan — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:32:24 -0800

Bathsheba Grossman: a geometric sculptor

Capturing the Unicorn

dhruva — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:09:56 -0800

Capturing the Unicorn : How two mathematicians helped the Met to digitally stitch together the Unicorn Tapestry. (via)

Yet More Fractals

Gyan — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 02:17:00 -0800

Keith's Fractal Art.

Fractally Surreal

Gyan — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:09:02 -0800

Chaoscopia.

Yet Another Fractal Art Iteration

Gyan — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:12:24 -0800

The Infinite Art of Kerry Mitchell and Janet Parke.

FractalFilter

Gyan — Mon, 31 May 2004 01:25:10 -0800

Blatte's Pages.

MathPorn

srboisvert — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:15:06 -0800

Algorithmic Obscenity [maybe nsfw?] Who knew math could be this much fun? [via BoingBoing]

the meaning of life, revealed in paper plates

taz — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 05:18:38 -0800

Astonishing geometric art using only folded paper plates, from Bradford Hansen-Smith at wholemovement. View the gallery of fantastic polyhedral creations, and learn how to do it yourself. (For more fun with paper plates, see also Paper Plate Education: Serving the Universe on a Paper Plate.)

Beautiful, open source creativity at levitated.net

taz — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:47:10 -0800

Walking Things is an environment that generates small, walking computational organisms. "Each walking thing is built up from totally random conditions. Appearance, behavior, and walking characteristics are all assigned from a range enabling effective, functional mobility. Click on a walking thing to permutate its characteristics".

Just one of the very many wonderful (open source) creations at levitated.net (more bugs with bling here). Kick off your shoes, fill your coffee cup or wine glass, and dip in.

vacapinta — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 15:09:18 -0800

The Paso Doble is an eerie little puzzle game, something like a De Chirico painting come to life.
Oh yeah, a new Mersenne prime was discovered today by a 20-yr old.
Both links courtesy of mathpuzzle.com
(will i ever beat joseph devincentis?!)