fractalkitty

fractalkitty

Lover of math, art, literature, and life.
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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02
Mar
Carnival of Mathematics 225

Carnival of Mathematics 225

Welcome to the Two-Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Carnival of Mathematics. Let’s start with facts about 225: Octagonal numbers are always fun: And then we can always think in gradians for a hexadecagon where the outside angles shown are 225 gradians (202.5 degrees or 1.125π radians). (Thanks David JONES f
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11
Feb
Rows of snowy owls paired on repeating logs with mountains in the background with a Koch snowflake.

A blizzard

A collective noun for snowy owls is a blizzard. I doodled Koch snowflakes with a blizzard of these superb owls. They hunt day and night and are an utter delight to observe.
02
Jan
Genuary 2024

Genuary 2024

This year’s Genuary code is here (I will update as I go through the prompts). My codepen gallery is here. I am hoping to play with symmetry the entire month. Day-31 – generative music (this runs slow on mobile and some machines) Day-30 – shaders Day-29 – Signed Distance Functions (if we keep trying
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14
Dec
haiku without words

haiku without words

I created haiku without words. This is just a draft of a concept. I contemplated the #wccchallenge prompt “improbable architecture” and thought of our solar system, of atoms and electrons, and of poetry without words. Click it to start. Your browser does not support iframes. If the sketch doesn’t lo
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11
Dec
4 images of a hyperbolic ducky made of yarn on a white background

Hyperbolic Duckies Published – NCTM

My hyperbolic duckies project is now published in the NCTM MTLT in the For the Love of Mathematics Department:

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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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