How to Put This Design on an Egg
Art
Recreational Math
I have made a full-color, two-sided instruction sheet on how to draw the attached design on an egg, along with a laminated picture of one of my eggs that has adhesive on the back to become a sticker.
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Susan D. Jones
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Shibori Dyed Hankerchiefs
Art
In anticipation of G4G14, I undertook the mathematical art project of using itajime shibori to dye hundreds of handkerchiefs so that each participant could receive a unique such handkerchief in his or her gift bag. The handkerchiefs represent six of the seven types of wallpaper patterns achievable with itajime shibori.
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Carolyn Yackel
Bobby Stecher
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Hand of Art Stickers
Art
Two removeable vinyl stickers of the artist's hand.
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Mindy Korth
G14-019
Akio's Dahlia Star Translucent
Art
I invented the Fibonacci Turbine in an origami way. The wing itself functions as a rotating shaft. The structure is so simple that it is robust. It can be used for many engineering applications.
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Akio Hizume
G14-023
The 14 Two-Color Frieze Symmetries in Mosaic Knitting
Art
Recreational Math
Mosaic knitting, a relatively new form of two-color knitting, has become popular because it is easier for the knitter than most traditional forms of color work. The price of this ease is an unusual set of restrictions on color placement for the pattern designer. Carolyn Yackel and I have researched the impact of these constraints on the symmetries of knitting patterns, culminating in a classification of the color-swapping symmetry groups possible in mosaic knitting.
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Susan Goldstine
Carolyn Yackel
G14-040
Abstract Photograph - Acura TL
Art
Recreational Math
One of my interests is abstract photography, using ordinary photographs as the “paint” and using spatial and mathematical transformations to create an image from one or more sources. One transformation that I’ve been exploring is “Inside Out”, which involves moving the center of the image to the outside and moving the edges of the image to the center. For some source images, the result is a pleasing abstract that doesn’t immediately resemble the source but which contains recognizable elements of the original when you look closely.
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David L. Kahn
G14-048
Winning Ways HexaFlexagon
Puzzle
Art
Toy
Sadly, all within 13 months of each other, the three authors of the iconic book Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays passed away.
Elwyn Berlekamp: Sept 6 1940 – Apr 9 2019
Richard Guy – Sept 30 1916 – Mar 9 2020
John Horton Conway: Dec 26 1937 – Apr 11 2020
All three were friends with Martin and were regulars at the Gathering. Their legacies are grand, and their presence will all be missed.
G4G14
Sean Graves
G14-058
Sakura Pythagorean Tree
Art
Inspired by the Pythagorean Tree in a plane, I stitched the Sakura Pythagorean Tree on a temari ball of diameter 58 cm. This Pythagorean tree has order five and begins with a square of side 5 cm. Upon the first square I constructed two squares to depict the Pythagorean theorem, and from there I continued recursively. Each square is scaled down by a linear factor of about 0.7.
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Marcela Chioresw
G14-064
Motley Cube
Art
Rec Math
Six identical sheets to cut out and assemble to make a colorful transparent model of a Motley Cube - a cube dissected into the minimum number of rectangular blocks such that no two blocks are both bounded by the same two parallel planes. In other words, it is delightfully irregular everywhere. This model accompanies the gift exchange paper on Motley Dissections that I am also submitting for the exchange.
G4G13
Scott Kim
public
G13-002
Tensegritiy Pop-up
Art
Rec Math
In each envelope there will be Kenneth Snelson-like tensegrity flattened inside. As you pull it out, it will pop up to a 3D sculpture.
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Robert Connelly
public
G13-003
Spiram Siderum
Art. Magic/Illusion, Toy, Science
A craft kit with all parts needed to crate a tiny kinetic sculpture based on the physics of equilibrium, magnetic force, and angular momentum.
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Raymond Hall
public
G13-015
The Missing 13th
Puzzle
Art
A diecut construction model. Assemble it to discover the missing 13th piece.
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Roger Gilbertson
internal
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Tridecahedron Net
Puzzle
Art
This net is similar to those in my 'Cubes and Things' 3D coloring books, where I use playful patterns to accent symmetries of polyhedra. By truncating one vertex of a dodecahedron, it becomes a tridecahedron. (Do you think truncating all the corners would reveal G4G twenty times?)
The theme of 13 is repeated in the sets of joined circles, which were inspired by this year's Gathering 4 Gardner Logo. There are 4 slightly different sets of 13 dots, each in its own color. 4 vertices have 3 circles of 3 different colors meeting. Those 2 sets of 4 vertices mark how 2 tetrahedra could fit into the shape or they can be seen as the 8 vertices of a cube. The 6 large colored areas were accented to also show the orientation of a cube in this shape.
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Stacy Speyer
public
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G4G13 Logo Design
Art
Rec Math
This configuration of thirteen sets of concentric circles grows out of an ancient tradition of visual alchemy. The faculties of imagination and intuition are employed as guides in the discovery of new and meaningful relationships between geometric elements in a plane (on a flat surface). In this particular instance, the task was to discover a pattern representing the number 13 wherein harmonic symmetry is a constant. This configuration of thirteen color-coded circular rings answers this design challenge. Logic is also employed as part strategy in the creation of this pattern; a perfect example of the rich dialogue between right and left hemispheres of the brain. Let us remember that Mandalas are intended as two dimensional re-presentations of (ideally sacred) sounds.
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Vandorn Hinnant
public
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A Fair Die of 13 Faces
Art
Rec Math
A cube is used as a fair die of 6 faces. However, there are many dice of different shapes on the market. To make them fair, most of them usually have some symmetric shapes. I classify these variants of dice on the market into two groups. First, let's consider that a sphere as a model of a fair die with infinity faces. Based on this model, many symmetric shapes can be modeled as dice obtained by caving spheres. We also have a familiar fair device; a coin. That is, a fair coin can be seen as a fair die with 2 faces. However, a real coin has a thickness, and hence it is, in fact, an unfair die with 3 faces. From this viewpoint, I propose a way for designing a fair die with n faces for arbitrary n. I also prepare fair dice with 13 faces as an exchange gift of G4G13.
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Ryuhei Uehara
public
G13-035
Geometry in Five-Dimensions: Building Quasicrystals from Penrose Tiling
Art
No-one really knows what quasicrystals look like. But we do know, from the diffraction patterns of X-ray crystallography, that they bear a resemblance to Penrose tiling. By combining artistic exploration with mathematical insight into the five-dimensional nature of Penrose tiling we have begun to visualize the structure of quasicrystals.
We are building mathematically precise sculptures of Penrose tiling raised up to a dimension of somewhere between 2 and 5. We have also devised algorithms to explore two-dimensional aperiodic tilings using color and perspective. These drawings sometimes reveal structural patterns that become sculptures.
In January we built a mirrored glass and copper sculpture that attempts to reconstruct the crystallographic origins of Nobel prize winner Dany Schectman’s famous five-fold diffraction patterns.
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Deborah Coombs
Duane Bailey
public
G13-040
Catalan Solid Net for further play
Puzzle
Art
The included piece will be a decorated deltoidal icositetrahedron net, which can be colored and subsequently cut and assembled. Alternatively, those with a cutting machine can cut the closed regions on each face of the polyhedron to obtain an interesting polyhedron once assembled. The piece is a prototype for a battery operated votive holder that can be cut using a laser cutter.
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Carolyn Yackel
public
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Postcard and Tiny Piece of Equilateral Tridecagon Tiling
Art
Rec Math
I prepared postcards and tiny pieces of "Equilateral Tridecagon Tiling" for the Gift Exchange.
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Masaka Iwai
public
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4-gons and 13-gons
Art
A circle sticker with an image of a hyperbolic tiling of 4-gons and 13-gons.
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Roice Nelson
public
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G4G13 Clock Face
Art
Rec Math
A clock face showing the logo for G4Gn at the nth hour, for n=5-12, and the G4G13 logo in the center, and miscellaneous MG items for hours1-4.
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Skona Brittain
public
G13-057
Waking Up a Student and Seeing Nobody
Art
Martin Gardner suggested the best way to wake up a student and Lewis Carroll woke up many students with his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Our gift, a microfiber cloth, presents some of Martin Gardner's and Lewis Carroll's words together with a couple of graphical mathematical designs, including a space-filling design created by Julian Ziegler Hunts and a portion of a 12-pointed star created by Amina Quraishi.
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Nancy Blachman
Bill Gosper, Howard Cannon
public
G13-058
Ace of Spades
Art
My gift is an Ace of Spades personalized with a unique image that combines the G4G logo together with a symbolic representation of Panamanian culture.
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Jeanette Shakalli Tang
public
G13-063
PiTop
Art
Rec Math
Pi is certainly one of the most important numbers in mathematics, physics, engineering and, indeed, in all scientific and even some artistic subjects. I have developed a new object which makes Pi tangible in novel tactile, acoustic and visual ways. The PiTOP is a right circular cylinder made out of brass with ratio of radius r to thickness t equal to pi. Because of this design, when spun the object also precesses (or rolls) for a rather long time, leading to an ever increasing precession frequency as it falls, producing what is sometimes called a "finite time singularity". The resulting sound and interplay of ambient light with the PiTOP is intriguing to the ear and delightful to the eye which also results in a strong "motion after effect" illusion. In this presentation I will talk about the development of the object, and demonstrate its physical and mathematical properties.
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Kenneth Brecher
internal
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Poly-Twostors Periodic Table, Catalog of 3D Printer Models
Art
Rec Math
It is a classification of 3D Tori. This catalog consists of 14 page which lists the Poly-Twistor models updated in January 2018.
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Akio Hizume
public
G13-070
Sculptural Martin Gardner
Puzzle
Art
MG Legacy
My contribution to the gift exchange is a 5 X 7 inch, four-color, tri-fold glossy card with photographed imagery of my 11 X 12 X 9 inch multifaceted-portrait-sculpture of Martin Gardner. My painted, kiln-fired, stained glass and stainless-steel-mirrored sculptural portrait includes my image of "Gardner Rabbit", four puzzles and two encoded words.
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Bronna Butler
public
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