Friday, September 12, 2008

Chand Baori Well


This is the Chand Baori Well in India. It was built in the 10th century as a practical solution to the water problem in the area. It is 30 meters deep, it has 13 floors and 3,500 steps. And legends say that ghosts build it in one night and that it has so many steps to make it impossible for someone to retrieve a coin once it’s been dropped in the well.

Symmetric Figure Exploration

When reading the Introduction to Symmetry article today, I tried the Symmetric Figure Exploration and I really enjoyed making the wallpapers. One example I made is to the left. If you need some interactive visuals, this a great exercise.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

games are usually fun

so i just found this website with fraction games on it. it's pretty easy and completing things is rewarding (a pop up to congratulate you on your completion of the fun fraction game? aw, thanks internet)
games!

also you can play ninja angle games. it's a kind of fun way to practice what we've been doing in class.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Wire Design

When I'm bored, I use a site called Stumble Upon.com that gives me a list of interests and then it shuffles websites based on my interests. This came up the other day and I was really interested in its formation of shapes but simply looking at it almost as if it was a flat image. Just being created by wire supports for this tower and light structure, I like its probably accidental making of a cool image.
I enjoy the music of Chopin, one of most well-known Romantic composers. He tended to use the golden ratio in many of his works. He based many of his musical studies off of this mathematical theory of repetition and focus. I suggest listening to his music and hearing it for yourself.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
This is where you can find a quick synopsis of the golden ratio.

I've heard people talk about how they think Jackson Pollock's work is based on math or that each painting may even be an entire math equation.  I don't think I agree with this, but it is interesting to read about.  Here are a couple of articles:

Monday, September 8, 2008

infinity


The work by the designer Karim Rashid reminds me of M.C Escher's tessellations. Rashid represents infinity very similarly to the way Escher does...(change in scale & repetition of the same shape). I think that Rashid does an excellent job of creating a type of optical illusion, just as Escher did in his pieces.