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A quilt block of grey and black stripes with rotational symmetry in the geometry.

december adventure

December Adventure Log

December Adventure was started by Eli_oat at Oatmeal. I love seeing what others do this month - here is a log of logs. This December, I plan to make a generative quilt, play with origami, doodle some mossy mandalas, set up next year's journal, and who knows

a green and blue 12-rotational symmetry mandala wit sketch-like texture that almost looks like water. There is brighter greens in the center and strokes of varoius colors throughout.

somewhere here

A coded poem and track The Track: Initiated on a piano, and realized on an OP-1 Field. somewhere here0:00/101.302857142857151× The Visual: Human coded in p5js with p5sound - enjoy in fullscreen. Click here for the visual with music - (CW: Strobing effects). The Coded Poem (that makes

A 13 node graph with lines drawn in such a way that notriangles form. There is a star-like quality, but not symmetric.

Inquiries-Week 5: Triangles Emerge

Introduction In this inquiry, nodes are connected one at a time. How many lines can you draw before a triangle emerges? Starting with Four Let's start with four nodes - draw them on a sheet of paper. How many lines (called edges) can you draw before a triangle

A radial symmetric sketch 6 with oak branch rings held together with a single link. A brown creeper, moss, and lichen are on the rings.

Mathober 2025 Sketches

This is the post I'll update with this year's Mathober art. Check back and see what's been added throughout the month. Notation (find the sigma) P5.js sketches Link, Deviation, Polyhedron Strongly, Digraph Sink, Partial Sum Notation, Octagonal Heptagonal, Chi Stellations, Orthogonal Polynomial, Monotonic,

Sci Art September

Sci Art September

1 Fluid flowing stream 2 Coral Coral with tentacle-like growth 3 Inertia perpendicular to gravity in an orbit 4 Diffusion denser particles going through osmosis to be less dense 5 Skeleton n-skeleton graph 6 Growth plant growth cycle 7 Virus viruses arranged as a gasket 8 Permutation three symbols permutated

A dodecahedral world floating in space with canyons, trees, mountains, and other fantasy map elements.

Math Storytelling Day 2025

Today is math storytelling day, so I thought I would make a visual coloring sheet as a prompt for others. What characters live in this world? What stories are there to tell? What number system would you have? What mathemagical spells would you cast? Where would you explore? If you

List of Mathober prompts for 31 days - listed in bottom of this post.

Mathober 2025

Mathober is almost here! I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s creativity and 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

A triangle with dissected into smaller triangles with 5 of them shaded that have light medium and dark shaded vertices.

Inquiries-Week 4: Triangulate the Triangle

Introduction In this inquiry, triangles are dissected into smaller triangles with vertices labeled as either light (L), medium (M), or dark (D). Any triangles that are LMD triangles are shaded with color. Triangle play Let's start with a triangle LMD: Now, let's dissect the triangle by

Take Two

Haiku + Code with a second take dance with the first – tethered mass orbiting encores Your browser does not support iframes. View Take Two directly let take1, take2; //each action let colorOfAction, gesso; //contrasted with color from canvas let m; function setup() { //placed on the easle of you createCanvas((m = 0.

17 mod 5 = 2 is shown to display modular arithmetic.

Inquiries-Week 2: Modular Fibonacci

9 circles shaded with black lenses and grey lunes showing the intersecting of a same sized circle in a row.

Inquiries-Week 1: Circle Shading

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&

The complete graph of 238 - but it just looks like grey concentric circles with black dots on the edges.

238th Carnival of Mathematics

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 first 13

voronoi diagram with small cells down a vertical line in the center and large cells at the right and left edges

Time at the Recurse Center

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,

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 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

Math-ffirmations

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.

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. 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,

Wyrm Beans

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

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 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,

swirly blues and greens and purples

manifold

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

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.

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

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 […]

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.

from beneath

a coded poem //poem is in the comments (they describe the code as well) let air; //there is this substance let radiance = 3; //that drifts towards a light let nBubbles = 1000; //encapsulated function setup() { c = max(800, min(windowWidth, windowHeight)) * 0.9; //in which you witness createCanvas(c, c); //through

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