This is the first of a series of guided inquiries in math. If a document is preferred over a blog post, the pdf file is below: Inquiries-Week 1_ Circle ShadingInquiries-Week 1_ Circle Shading.pdf615 KBdownload-circle Introduction When circles overlap they make lunes: or lenses: or other fun shapes: Activity Let's| Fractal Kitty
Wow! It's the 238th Carnival of Mathematics organized by Aperiodical. This has been a fun month with lots of submissions and lots of beautiful math art. To start let's jump into the number 238 itself. 238 is: 2 × 7 × 17. the sum of the| Fractal Kitty
Find balance through symmetry. $$f(x) = f(-x)$$ --- Approximation improves with experience. $$e^x = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^n}{n!} = 1 + x + \frac{x^2}{2!} + \frac{x^3}{3!} + \cdots$$ --- To untangle is to meditate. $$\huge{\bigcirc}$$ --- Be ever-changing. $$\frac{du}{dt} \ne 0$$ --- Allow for transformation.| Fractal Kitty
One thing I love about math and art is the conversations and iterations that flow from their patterns and beauty. After posting Walking Ripples, I have enjoyed seeing how the simplicity of shading circles propagates in conversation, art, and exploration. Here are just a few of the follow-up activities, responses,| Fractal Kitty
Do you ever look at knitted items and liken them to dragon scales? - I do. So when I decided to make generative textured hats it made sense to call them Wyrm Beans. Just as we can have generative pixel colors on a screen, we can have generative textures in| Fractal Kitty
Over the last week I have been drawing circles along paths and then shading them with 2 colors using random numbers to determine their radii. For example, the one on this card was drawn with 10 evenly spaced circles along a line using the random radii of 48,30,70,| Fractal Kitty
In January, I kicked off a journey of reflection and growth at the Recurse Center (RC) – a retreat where you work at the edge of your abilities with wonderful peers to pair program, study with, and grow. My goals in participating were to learn and play with different programming languages,| Fractal Kitty
a coded poem //poem is in the comments (and on codepen) let points = []; //you start as an empty set let sigma, rho, beta; //with a faint idea of structure function setup() { //and a canvas to be projected upon cnv = createCanvas((w = min(windowWidth, windowHeight) * 0.9), w); //and so you| Fractal Kitty
On winter solstice I had my personal "new-year" and I started an experimental journal of self. My motivation was to see if my experiences and awareness change through the type of journaling that I do. Will tallying the days that I glimpse the moon, counting the number of bird species| Fractal Kitty
