fractalkitty

fractalkitty

Lover of math, art, literature, and life.
06
Feb
three crocheted hyperbolic ducks on a mantle with quilt and plans by them

Hyperbolic Ducky

Got a bug in your code? Is there a proof giving you grief? Did you have a bad day? In the midst of a decision? Why not talk with a ducky? I have a hypothesis that these hyperbolic duckies are the best listeners. Creating these ducks isn’t exact, and the instructions reflect that. I don’t […]
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22
Dec
a hedgehog with an orbiting planet and stars

Winter solstice 2022

Happy winter solstice! I doodled a hedgehog:
10
Dec
a woman walking into an enormous wave with cusp catastrophe curves on the corners

pdf – of time and cosmos

Here is a PDF of the Mathober Series – of time and cosmos So, I printed a book for Mathober2022, but it is insanely expensive. If you’d like to flip through this work of art, here is a pdf.
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19
Nov
hyperbolic curves drawn in 4 quadrants very close together - almost like quilling  - black and white

Mathober 2022 Code Doodles

This post is late, but here is the code doodles from mathober2022: Click to change the code below. Or go here for the full page version. See the Pen Mathober2022 by Sophia (@fractalkitty) on CodePen.
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01
Oct
Mathober2022 – Sketches

Mathober2022 – Sketches

This is the collection of 31 pairings for #mathober2022. Day1 – Spindle Day2 – Cubic Day3 – Planar Day4 – Dissection Day5 – Flat Day6 – Hyperbolic Day7 – Harmonic Day8 – Error Day9 – Identity Day10 – Similar Day11 – Fundamental Day12 – Category Day13 – Theory Day14 – Paradox Day15 – Tiling Day16 […]
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25
Sep
a figure 8 immersion klein bottle tree with nuthatches on it

White-Breasted Nuthatch

These birds are often called “upside-down birds,” but maybe they just have no regard for orientation. I enjoyed playing with Boy’s surfaces, Möbius strips, cross-caps, and various Klein bottles for this piece (thanks math Twitter for responding to non-orientable surface requests). I decided on a fig
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17
Sep
Mathober 2022 – Prompts!

Mathober 2022 – Prompts!

Get ready for the third annual Mathober! This all started to nurture the practice of daily doodles with no rules/strings attached. This activity has been fun for the last couple of years and I hope to see the community grow. Feel free to join in at any time to create a daily sketch/doodle/script bas
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19
Aug
A squirrel sketch with cute eye lies sprawled out belly down in the shadow of a tree.

Splooters gonna sploot…

09
Jul
a kitty at a chalkboard in a helmet with elemetns of math all around.

Chalkboard Dreams

Kitty dreams of such wonders… @mathart4all requested a t-shirt design that was so much fun to do! The prompt included soma, rubiks, space, Euler’s Formula, The Bridges of Königsberg, and a kitty (of course). If you want to buy this on Bonfire the link is here. However, I am all for supporting local
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26
Jun
Ancient Is

Ancient Is

Below are a few of the images created with my “ancient is” code in p5js. I created a set is paired with haiku on Medium here and code is here (click to change).
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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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