Tim Chartier

Me trying to focus my eyes on Monday morning. I built a little Seed of Life animation and the ripple + breathe settings are basically me as I get into the groove of the week. It all comes into focus eventually. #MondayMood #SacredGeometry #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding

Always check your work.

If you focus on one or the other, it's a bit dizzying for me!

Land art turns stones, leaves, sand and flowers into fleeting compositions that vanish with wind, rain or tide. The video is the artwork's only record.

This is so cool. IG: @jambottlecapart

Continuing to play with the tumbling blocks optical illusion.

Impressive paper airplane with folding instructions Original post

Fun variation!

German photographer Christian Vieler captures the hilarious moments when dogs try to catch treats mid-air. [📹 vieler. photography]

Nice! The trouble with choosing tile colours by averaging pixels is that the result can be somewhat blurry. Or, if you sample to get tile colours, noisy. A recent Master's student of mine wrote a nice thesis on "pixel art with non-square pixels". dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Been playing around with which optical illusions also work for mosaics. This is fun.

Next time you see a bright curve of light inside your coffee mug, look closer. It's often a cardioid, the same heart-shaped curve you get by joining dot k to dot 2k around a circle. Here it is, spinning. #mathart

Slow motion shows what a ball hit really does to your face: cheeks and lips ripple like firm jelly while the bone barely moves, all in a few thousandths of a second.

Each line goes from a point on the outer circle to a point on the inner one. No line bends. Yet the pattern they make has curves, cusps and loops. Linear steps, non-linear result. #mathart #generativeart

Decided to try this illusion with the Mona Lisa hiding inside it. My mind keeps switching between seeing her face and seeing the illusion. Trippy!

Stereographic Rubik’s

“The Curta” calculator designed by Curt Herzstark while imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. #peppergrinder #calculator en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

Some reflections on AI in math. I found it helpful to simply list out the various parts of what a mathematician does, why math is valuable, and where the funding comes from. From there, what happens if AI gets more capable? youtu.be/LKrwhjOI8Nc

Every line in this video is perfectly straight. Your visual cortex disagrees.

Paint filled balloons hit a man's face in slow motion, and the result is a burst of color that looks like a work of art in motion.

Keep watching the center. It's one line the whole time. No shading, no second stroke. Just a spiral getting thicker and thinner. #creativecoding #MathArt

Leonardo spent years on the Mona Lisa. I gave her 5,568 candies and 6 colors. 🍬 Rule: gray the image, tile it, rank tiles light to dark, split into six equal piles, one candy color each. No colors match the painting, but the light and dark do, so your eye still finds her. #CreativeCoding #MathArt

Color rings of nested circles in a spiral pattern in Python rodstephensbooks.com/nested_circl... (I thought this was going to be my last digression into nested circles, but I've got one more coming, plus a digression to the digression.) #Python #Geometry #Mathematics #ComputerGraphics

Jason Douma and I edited a new MAA book on data science curriculum that can be plugged into classes. Take a look at: bookstore.ams.org/view?Product...

Asked Claude for a catchy social video about the hat tile, the one shape that tiles forever without ever repeating. Well... is it catchy? 😀 #MathSky

Yesterday I showed you the spirals hiding inside the letter A. Today you can make your own. Type any word, then play with the triangles, the curve of pursuit, the colors and the glow. 📐 What to do? It's up to U! lifeislinear.davidson.edu/pursuitLette...

#MathArt Inspired by John Edmark's Dahlias inside Atlantis The Royal Hotel in Dubai, UAE.

Fell into the letter A and found spirals all the way down. Made with right triangles, one simple rule (move toward the next corner, repeat), and a little Python. #mathart #creativecoding

Stunning compilation of the lightning display over the Volcán de Agua, Guatemala. The show lasted for approximately 45 minutes over impressive lenticular clouds, allowing photographers to capture the phenomenon. [📹 Jonathan Castillo] Original post

Plato associated the tetrahedron with fire. I made it ice. 🧊🔥 The simplest Platonic solid: just 4 triangles, each one's corners chasing each other inward, then letting go. A quiet one for Sunday. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

Trying a different color palette (palette 76 from the book “A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol 2”) on my favorite decomposition of the infinite knight’s graph into four 2-factors.

For your Saturday game night, a d20 where every face rolls a spiral: 20 triangles, each one's corners chasing each other inward, then letting go. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding #dnd

This throw and catch is so clean it looks scripted, but it is pure brain math, milliseconds of trajectory prediction turned into perfect hand placement.

Update: still no idea what the Romans used them for. But I did get one to breathe. It starts as a bare dodecahedron, winds a galaxy into every face, then lets them go again. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

How to put on socks when you have a hard time reaching your feet [📹 Mister Odd and Miss Tree] Original post

The Romans left behind over a hundred mysterious bronze dodecahedra, and nobody knows what they were for. I can't solve that, but I can fill one with spirals: 12 pentagons, five corners each, chasing inward. A tiny galaxy on every face. ✨ #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

If a disco ball studied geometry. 🪩 A sphere cut into 320 triangles, each one filled with a curve of pursuit: corners chasing corners, all the way in. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

Before and after: one is a coloring page, the other is what happens with a little time and a lot of color. 🎨 Choose your petals and rings, then click to see what appears. Print it for quiet coloring time, or color it right on your screen: lifeislinear.davidson.edu/mandala-make...

A Monday pause before the week takes over. Watch one ring turn. Breathe in, breathe out. Then another. A small, endlessly spinning start to your day. #CreativeCoding #MathArt #GenerativeArt #MondayMood

The incredible Special Effects of KAREL ZEMAN — without whom there’d be no Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton or Wes Anderson to name but three.

#Monday #Math #MathArt #MondayMood

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He painted the stars swirling and the sunflowers blazing. Here he is, made from both. #CreativeCoding #MathArt #GenerativeArt

This starts closer than the Louvre will ever let you get. How fast do you recognize her as it zooms out? (Or did "Louvre" already give it away?) 🌻 #CreativeCoding #MathArt #GenerativeArt

Sometimes you do what you have to do 😊

Taught the flower to bloom. 🌸 Think of it as a time-lapse: half the day it spins left, half the day it spins right, and in between it rests. Tomorrow it starts all over again. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

Grew a flower with zero water and about 600 triangles. 🌸 A pentagon cut into 10 slices, each slice's corners chasing each other inward. Neighbors spin opposite ways, and petals appear on their own. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

Update: they're still chasing. 🔥 Same rosette, now animated: 60 pursuit curves winding up from bare outlines and back again, on loop forever. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

A little girl told the bus driver this was her favorite song, so he turned up the music and they danced together. Original post