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Aug 30, 2017

Using only a circle and straight lines, it's possible to create various aesthetic curves that combine both art and mathematics. The geometry behind the concentric circle, ellipse, and cardioid dates b ...

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Feb 6, 2017

Curve stitching is a form of string art where smooth curves are created through the use of straight lines. It is taught in many Junior High and High School art classes. I discovered it when my math st ...

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Dec 17, 2016

We've all made them. I remember making hundreds of paper snowflakes when I was in elementary school. You take a piece of paper and fold it in half, then fold it in half again. You now have a piece tha ...

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Aug 26, 2013

Computer Science Professor Francesco De Comité has a fantastic gallery of mathematical images on Flickr. As part of this collection, he has a few hundred images of real or rendered polyhedra made out ...

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Nov 5, 2012

Here's a great excuse to play with your food—and learn some math while you're at it. We've all seen a hexaflexagon folded out of paper, but how about a burrito? Vi Hart, a "mathmusician" over at the K ...

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Aug 16, 2012

You may remember string art from your elementary school days. If so, it probably makes you think of the 2D geometrical designs that took every ounce of patience you had as a kid. Or those laboriouscur ...

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Feb 16, 2012

Download the SoftwareGo to the Antiprism downloads page. Download and install Antiprism 0.20.  Run the ProgramsYou need a method of running programs on the command line. In Windows, that could be a DO ...

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Dec 15, 2011

Last Thursday's post demonstrated how to Make Yin-Yang Pillow boxes, which were based on equilateral triangles and squares. The units for making these boxes were created by Phillip Chapman-Bell, who r ...

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Dec 13, 2011

In honor of the new Astronomy World, I thought we should look at a few planetary icosahedrons. The icosahedron is the most round of the Platonic solids with twenty faces, thus has the smallest dihedra ...

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Dec 12, 2011

It's once again Monday, which means it's time to highlight some of the most recent community submissions posted to the Math Craft corkboard.  Since two of these posts were on polyhedral versions of M. ...