Thursday, June 19, 2008

Maths and Art (josleys.com)

Youtube link to showcase one of his works:


josleys.com
Mathematical Imagery

Amazing website on Mathematical imagery!
I. Gallery has:
1. Sculptures
2. The shape of Planet Earth: Could the Earth has been flat after all? How about cigar shaped? Or do you prefer pear shaped?
Knots and dynamics: Collaboration with Prof. Etienne Ghys of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, containing material presented at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Madrid, August 2006)
3. Knots and dynamics animations: Collection of animations where one can see what a matrix looks like in four dimensions, how to make spaghetti using a 'horocycle', and more
The Droste effect: Collection of images and animations, made with a "Droste effect" image transformation.
II. References: Information about books published in the area of Math and Art
III. Links: Useful links to create images
IV. Articles

Acknowldgements to respective website owner (josleys.com) and video creator. Copyrights as stated in the website (Jos Leys)

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