Fractal Kitty
Making sense of the abstract.

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11
Feb
circles with words of birds, distance, tallies, icons, cinquains, and micro at vertices of a hexagon - lines between vertices

StreamOf.me

On winter solstice I had my personal "new-year" and I started an experimental journal of self. My motivation
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02
Feb

Math-ffirmations

Find balance through symmetry. $$f(x) = f(-x)$$ Approximation improves with experience. $$e^x = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^
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31
Jan
a gradient shading of overlapping circles from orange to purple

A Ripple of Ripples

One thing I love about math and art is the conversations and iterations that flow from their patterns and beauty.
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27
Jan
Wyrm Beans

Wyrm Beans

Do you ever look at knitted items and liken them to dragon scales? - I do. So when I decided
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21
Nov
circles along a wavy curve with random radii and shading is alternating between white  and blue gradients.

Walking Ripples

Over the last week I have been drawing circles along paths and then shading them with 2 colors using random
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01
Oct
A crow sits upon a cliff dangling a moon in the darkness from a thread of light. the moons light glows illuminating some of w

mathober 2024 sketches

It’s mathober! I will be updating this page with my sketches (in procreate and code for this year. Procreate sketches: (not all will be done this month – they take longer): P5js sketches: The code is on my codepen collection here.
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10
Sep
Mathober 2024

Mathober 2024

Mathober is just around the corner, and I can’t wait to see everyone’s creative take on this year’s prompts! If you’ve never participated before, now’s the perfect time to jump in! The goal of Mathober is simple: have fun, learn, grow, and play with the prompts. No pressure! There are no rules – par
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21
Aug
randomness – a generative zine

randomness – a generative zine

I coded a generative zine to bring to XOXO 2024. It is different every time it loads with a sampling of p5.js sketches. Each zine has hundreds of thousands to millions of generated shapes and points using random numbers. The github is here (the code is slow to run and painful to read). If you […]
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20
Aug
many lemniscates overlapping to make a narrow -wide-narrow shape almost like an ornament - black an white

Curve

I made Curve, a coloring book, to bring to XOXO 2024 this week. If you’d like to print/play: See the Pen Curve Zine by Sophia (fractal kitty) (she/her) (@fractalkitty) on CodePen.
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21
Mar
image of game with highest tile being 1597.

SumFib

After playing simple yet addictive games like Threes and 2048, I wondered how the gameplay mechanics would translate using Fibonacci numbers, which introduce a unique twist. I wrote a prototype in p5js. You can swipe on mobile or use arrows/WASD on desktop. I did this in about a day and unit tested
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Sophia

Mathematics educator and creative coder exploring the beauty of mathematical concepts through interactive visualizations and playful learning.

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