Fractals - The Drafting Table

Circles and Triangles

This post is about a book on geometry that I read last year (finishing up over the holidays). Beautiful Geometry was written by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. Each of its 51 chapters explains a topic in geometry and presents an artistic plate illustrating it. In addition to the artistic

Art

Artistic River Map

I got a new art print from Etsy and wanted to show it off in this post. This print is a map composed solely of rivers. Rivers, maps, and fractals are some of my favourite things, so I really like how it has some fractal characteristics (here's another art print

Computer

Mandelbrot Set in Excel

In my previous post, I promised "something fun with complex numbers in Excel". This is it. The Mandelbrot Set The Mandelbrot Set is famous as a very visually-appealing fractal. It is based on iteratively applying a simple rule to complex numbers (which comprise a real and an imaginary

Math

Arabic Calligraphy

I recently got a very cool piece of art. So that's what this post is about. First things first, here it is framed and hanging on my wall: The design is Arabic calligraphy of the word al-Hurriyah (الحرية), meaning "freedom" or "liberty". The artist is Everitte

Tiling

Hilbert Curve

One of my favourite topics in math is fractals. For this post, I drew the Hilbert Curve fractal in octave. The Hilbert Curve is a space-filling curve: although it is one-dimensional (a series of line segments) itself, it covers a two-dimensional area. I recently learned about this fractal from a