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Great event coming up at CUNY –
Wednesday, May 2, 6:30 pm – Free
Learn about mathematician Donald Coxeter and contemporary artwork that uses geometry. With Siobhan Roberts, author of King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry, George Hart, sculptor and author of the online Encyclopedia of Polyhedra, Emmy Award-winning animator Mark Neumann,
and Jeff Weeks’ Dodecahedral Universe, a trippy 3D animated fly-through of geometric space.Arrive early (4:00 pm on) and help mathematician Dan Duddy construct a shadow of the fourth dimension; a giant truncated hyperdodecahedron. Everyone is welcome!
The Graduate Center
of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St)
CUNY Graduate Center: Science and the Arts – Link.
2 thoughts on “Geometry and Art: From Escher to animation”
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For anyone who’s interested, the structure in the picture was constructed using Zome (www.zometool.com). I imagine this is what will be used to construct the truncated hyperdodecahedron.