Wednesday, December 1, 2010

research #3

10/21

Fractals, geometry, math education, art

  • teaching tessellations in art and math, by teaching artist George Woideck, for teachers.
  • geometric math art with wooden shape blocks
  • geometric abstraction- abstract art using simple geometric form in non-illusionistic space
  • using fractals to teach math to elementary level children
  • recursive equations
  • used to teach proportional reasoning

generative art:

http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/index.php/generative-art-links/


Elementary Mathematic Concepts found in Fractals

  • similar shapes (geometry)
  • similar polygons in fractals all have congruent corresponding angles and proportional corresponding sides.
  • the shape is made of smaller copies of itself. The copies are similar to the whole: same shape but different size.
  • fractions and multiples
  • each fragmented geometric shape is either a fraction or a multiple of the original shape
  • rotation
  • concept of infinity
  • pattern making, repetition
  • the idea of repeating patterns on smaller scales
basic Y fractal shape
http://www.anthonymattox.com/creating-geometric-fractals-with-processing

example of interactive fractals that use mouse input to control the shape of the form
http://processing.org/learning/topics/tree.html


sketches of basic fractals that I can work with

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