Geometry and Art: From Escher to Animation (event in NYC)

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:14:53 GMT

Geometry and Art:
From Escher to Animation

Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 pm – Free

Learn about mathematician Donald Coxeter and contemporary
artwork that uses geometry. With Siobhan Roberts, author of King of
Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry,
George Hart, sculptor and author of the online Encyclopedia of Polyhedra,
Emmy Award-winning animator Mark Neumann,
and Jeff Weeks' Dodecahedral Universe,
a trippy 3D animated fly-through of geometric space.

Arrive early (4:00 pm on) and help mathematician Dan Duddy construct a
shadow of the fourth dimension; a giant truncated hyperdodecahedron.
Everyone is welcome!

The Graduate Center
of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St)

Pre-registering holds your seat until 15 minutes before curtain, then seating is first come, first served. Pre-register by phone or email: 212-817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu, and refer to registration number #7278.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and Con Edison.

Science & the Arts
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart

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zometool rocks!

liquis — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:05:28 GMT

nice to see a little tribe here on this awesome toolset. Maybe we can get some discussions going. I first saw zometool in the whole earth catalog back in 1994 or so, then finally bought a set in 1996. It was complete with a bunch of mathematical explorations not included in the new sets. Maybe I can scan them with OCR for us sometime.

I love making zometool objects that are symmetrical and can spin on the center axis... totally entrancing.

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Geometry and Art: From Escher to Animation (event in NYC)

zometool rocks!