October 25, 1999
Technology and Esthestics I
Tidbit Archive
| Technology is capable of creating some pretty ugly stuff -- strip mines, early 20th century oil refineries, and weapons of mass destruction, for example. But there is also great beauty in technology. From time to time we'll feature some of the artistic creations that have been enabled by technology. Computer graphics and animations of mathematical functions can be particularly pleasing. Most of the works linked below were created by artists, mathematicians, and programmers who applied the tools of computer and web technology, especially Java, to mathematical concepts. |
Links:Graphica, a site that displays sample images (such as the one above) created with the Stephen Wolfram's Mathematica computer language
There are more images generated with Mathematica on Wolfram.com
Xah Lee's Mathematics Graphics Gallery (including links)
Michael's tie-dyed kaleidoscope page; not in the same league as the others scientifically, but pretty nevertheless
Mark Newbold's Counter-Rotating Spirals Illusion (a bit different from the others, but great fun -- try looking at the back of your hand after staring at the spirals -- also check out some of Newbold's other images linked from that page)
James Henstridge's java fractals; you've probably seen fractals, but you may not have seen how they grow, as they do here
Web site designer Alden Bliss has some wonderful fractal animations on his site, including these "lake fractals" and some fractal zooms
Adam Hauner's Fractal Gallery has some particularly attractive, screen-filling non-animated fractal images.
