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Kaitlin Johnson - Artist - Australia

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Steve’nn Hall

THE RIVER (PANELS) Photography, Oil and Ink with textured matte surface on birch panel NO. 5 2012

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I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car. Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters. Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?” Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.” “Did you catch many?” I asked. “Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.”

Isaac Asimov (via skinnybaras)

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Water fountain Watercolor animation

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shell collection

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Cityscapes Jeremy Mann

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Here is one of the recent forays into math & art that a lot of people find somehow calming.

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Sinking In

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colorful gradient 31009

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Dryad, big job. watercolor.

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Jade Mere @jademere

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Basic Templates Of Geometric Creation

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Parametric curves

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Mathematical Object Minimalist Posters by Visualizingmath. (Yes, I actually attempted to make something!)

Thank you to Curiosamathematica for creating the Klein Bottle image!

Original image sources: E8 (unknown), Fibonacci spiral, Möbius strip, Sierpinski triangle, Pythagoras tree. 

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julia sets for z⁴+c/z and z²+c/z³

fun!

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fun, indeed!

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Hyperbolic tilings of Mona-Lisa

In Euclidean geometry you can only use triangles, squares or hexagons if you want to tile the plane using regular polygons. The total angle when rotating around a vertex of a polygon must be 360 degrees, and since the angles of all regular polygons depend on the angle sum of a triangle, these are the only options in Euclidean geometry.

In non-Euclidean geometry, the angle sum of a triangle is either larger or less than 180 degrees. In hyperbolic geometry (one of the two kinds of non-Euclidean geometry), the angle sum of a triangle is always less than 180 degrees, and there are infinitely many ways to make a tiling using regular hyperbolic polygons. One way to model hyperbolic geometry, is to let the plane be represented by points inside a circle. The circle itself lies at infinity.

In order to make a hyperbolic tiling, start with a hyperbolic polygon (which looks distorted for everyone living in Euclidean space), then reflect the polygon in all its sides, continue this process (in theory) infinitely many times.

Make hyperbolic tilings of any image at: http://www.malinc.se/m/ImageTiling.php