I started this in 2008 and hope to get back to it soon. Basically, I have computed a voxel approximation of a three dimensional chaotic dynamical system, and adapted a ray marching Renderman cloud shader used in the movie Contact to visualize the attractor via 3Delight. This is just work in progress, an attempt to capture the true volumetric, delicate and fascinating form of these generative artifacts.

In early November, I will be giving a talk during a special session on Mathematics and the Arts at the AMS Sectional Meeting in Richmond, Virginia. My talk is titled, The Confluence of Chaos and Computation in Generative Visual Art, and this is the abstract: With the rise of accessible computation in the 1960s and 70s, practitioners of mathematics, statistics and physics were suddenly able to explore chaotic dynamical systems in new, powerful, and decidedly visual ways. At the same [Read More...]

Look what came in the mail last week! That’s my artwork on the cover (Faces of Chaos series) and inside is a book review I wrote on Symmetry in Chaos (2nd Edition) by Michael Field and Martin Golubitsky. This is the first time I have been published in a journal. I would like to thank Gary Greenfield, the very helpful and supportive editor, for the opportunity.

A friend of mine asked me the other day if I knew of any good sources of math art wallpaper as Google was not turning up anything very good. While I don’t have any specific sources of desktop backgrounds, I do have some great sources for mathematical artwork. Over the past few years I have participated in the Bridges Math Art Conference and the Joint Mathematics Meetings, both of which have exhibitions of mathematical art every year. There is a [Read More...]

In May of 2009 I participated in an algorithmic mathematical art workshop at Rutgers University’s DIMACS (Center for Discrete Mathematics and Experimental Computer Science). The three day program was a great opportunity to share my artwork and to be inspired by other artists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. As I though about how to share my experience at this workshop with you in this post, I asked myself, how did this opportunity come about, anyway? A quick search in my email [Read More...]