My contribution to the gift exchange is stickers hiding clues leading to a mathematical treasure hunt I'm hosting across my blog and a few other spots on the internet. I also have a physical prize for the first person to reach the end.
The Chiral Icosahedral Hinge Elastegrity resulted from a Bauhaus paper folding exercise, that asks material and structure to dictate form. The key new object obtained in 1982 involved cutting slits into folded pieces of paper and weaving them into 8…
I was surprised at M.C. Escher’s exhibition in 1982 and hoped to create a tiling pattern by myself. But I worried about creating everyday, and time was gone without any one pattern during 2 months. When I watched Escher’s sketch book, I found thinner…
Two Lenticular cards from Germany - one shows Pangea the last supercontinent 300 million years ago, and the second card shows the map of the globe in the next Heat Age when all the ice melts. This may result in a net gain in land!
This document contains original diagrams and instructions for making a truncated icosahedron (Buckyball) using hexagon and hexagon/pentagon strip modules designed by the author.
Two transparency sheets chosen at random from a larger selection. Combining any two different sheets reveals a different secret image. Exchange recipients are encouraged to find each other and combine sheets to reveal all of the images.
A full-color printed card showing and explaining Serpentine Symmetries, a beaded jewelry set that illustrates the 13 wallpaper groups compatible with bead crochet rope. Serpentine Symmetries was part of the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition…
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…
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.…