Category Archives: eye-candy

what hath Coxeter wrought

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 10 by Anton

pretty hyperbolic tilings

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tantalizing

Posted on Saturday, 2002 November 16 by Anton

Jean-François Colonna makes elaborate and striking mathematical images. I only wish they had more annotation.

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render unto pixels

Posted on Saturday, 2002 October 12 by Anton

The Virtual Terrain Project collects links about the state of the art in realtime simulated environments, from “why can’t you make better trees?” to “how do you decide when part of the field of view can be rendered more sloppily?”.

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and it plays

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 September 25 by Anton

Harpsichord made almost entirely of Lego parts. (vectored by Sam Yorko and Clint Chaplin)

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a great icosahedron

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 26 by Anton

. . made in PoV-Ray using a couple of beta features. I took the liberty of naming the pigment “Tufte” : it uses unsaturated colors to represent angles in a natural way.

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I always wanted one

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 12 by Anton

A Webwide World by Ken Perlin, NYU, 1998 – Java applet that rapidly generates a fractal planet. Unlike the Planet of the Day generated by ppmforge, Perlin’s planet is three-dimensional and can be rotated.

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gadgeteer at play

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 05 by Anton

Matthias Wandel’s insane constructions (link from AlterSlash). From the same site: some surprisingly effective mathematical drawings.

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