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Science and Art

Postby Doubleshadow » Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:33 pm

The art sections seem to be for art pieces rather than general art discussion, so I placed the thread here.

I love where science and art intersect, either scientific endeavors that are art or art being applied for scientific purposes. Here is an example a series of works I love, art pieces made via X-rays.

X-Ray Art

I especially love the botanical pieces using this technique.

I also love fractal art, and complicated gears like the Antikythera mechanism and the Eisinga Planetarium.
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Postby blkmage » Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:38 pm

Being a student of pure math, something that I love is seeing is math and art coming together. Two articles popped up recently in my feed reader. The first is about something that's like a three-dimensional version of the Mandelbrot set (but not quite). Some of those scenes that were generated are hauntingly pretty.

The second featured a mathematician who paints with mathematics as his inspiration. My favourites are the one based on Cantor's diagonal argument (used to prove the uncountability of the real numbers and the decidability of the Halting Problem; it's one of my favourite proofs) and the one based on Riemann sums.
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Postby ClosetOtaku » Sun Jan 17, 2010 7:42 pm

Doubleshadow (post: 1366857) wrote:X-Ray Art
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Thank you for this link -- many of the images are very impressive!
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Postby Warrior4Christ » Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:17 am

[quote="blkmage (post: 1366863)"]Being a student of pure math, something that I love is seeing is math and art coming together. Two articles popped up recently in my feed reader. The first is about something that's like a three-dimensional version of the Mandelbrot set (but not quite). Some of those scenes that were generated are hauntingly pretty.

The second featured a mathematician who paints with mathematics as his inspiration. My favourites are the one based on Cantor's diagonal argument (used to prove the uncountability of the real numbers and the decidability of the Halting Problem]
Beat me to it! I was about to link to the Mandelbulb (first thing that came to mind). It is quite amazing.

The second one's pretty nice as well, but perhaps not quite as epic.
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Postby Doubleshadow » Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:25 pm

I love 3D geometry! X3

Here is the opposite take, instead of science resulting in art, art resulting science.

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