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Math Craft

Explore the universe of mathematically inspired art and architecture through projects, community submissions, and inspirational posts.

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Oct 25, 2011

Halloween is coming up, so many of you may have a need or desire to carve a pumpkin and turn it into a Jack O' Lantern. This week we are going to explore carving our pumpkins into interesting geometri ...

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Oct 22, 2011

Combine a bunch of fractal objects with mirrors and and lights and the ability to walk around inside and you get something like the image below. For more information on the exhibit as well as several ...

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Oct 22, 2011

Someone made this awesome pie, or is it two, in the shape of the standard two circle Venn Diagram. This article has a tiny bit more detail. ...

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Oct 21, 2011

Richard Sweeney is an incredible artist whose body of work consists mainly of sculptures made from paper. His art is often related to origami, and much of his work is related to geometrical forms. I p ...

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Oct 21, 2011

Reuben Margolin builds large scale kinetic sculptures based off of mechanical waves. Some of his sculptures contain hundreds of pulleys all working in harmony with each other to create sinusoidal wave ...

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Oct 21, 2011

If you thought the last post on Two Circle Wobblers was wild, then wait until you see what happens when you build wobblers out of two half circles or two ellipses. In both of these cases, the center o ...

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Oct 18, 2011

One of my favorite simple projects is building two circle wobblers. I love how such a simple object amazes with its motion. The two circle wobbler is an object made out of two circles connected to eac ...

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Oct 18, 2011

Not the best picture, but will do. More will be coming! ...

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Oct 15, 2011

A beautiful object by artist Torolf Sauermann; see more of his math art here. ...

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Oct 15, 2011

If you haven't participated in this week's Math Craft project on the platonic solids, maybe this will inspire you to do so. Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer based out of Switzerland w ...