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Math Monday

is a neat blog of cute math-y things jointly posted by the Make: Online and the Museum of Mathematics. I’ve had an ongoing dream of having some of my stuff be cool enough to be featured in one of their posts, but I apparently also don’t read them enough, because it seems that my Seeing Stars sculpture was featured in October and I only just noticed now.

See their post on polyhedral models (including mine!) at Bridges here: http://momath.org/home/math-monday-plenty-of-polyhedra/ or here: http://makezine.com/magazine/plenty-of-polyhedra/

Seeing Stars photo from Math Monday
Seeing Stars photo from Math Monday
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A CSS Octahedron

I recently ran into the idea of styling single divs to get interesting effects, with the win that you can then just apply a single css class to a single html element to create re-usable shapes, icons, animations, etc. An impressive set of examples of this technique can be found here.

I immediately wanted to try it myself, and naturally started off with a subject that I am rather fond of – polyhedra. I wrote a css class that when applied to a div gives you an octahedron that rotates on hover (with appropriate lighting effects) without any Javascript.

Check out the JSFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/wtMrH/11/

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The Bridges Math Art 2013

Seeing Stars

is the premier conference on the intersection between Math and Art. This year, it was held in Enschede, The Netherlands. I presented a fun workshop paper on Flipbook Polyhedra and exhibited Seeing Stars in the art exhibition.

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George Hart just released this fantastic video of the Bridges Art Exhibition. You can see my pieces briefly at the very beginning and spinning at 1:17. You can also see lots of other awesome artwork from the Bridges Art Exhibition, including spotlights on the four prize-winning pieces.