“We live within a vast ‘ocean’ of randomness, navigating our way by the ‘islands’ of order we discover—and sometimes create—within it.”
Category: INTERACTIVE LEARNING
New interactive learning systems – digital and physical
Cultivating Perceptual Reasoning Through Altair Designs
As a response to a reader’s question, please see a short article, GO TO THE SUPPLEMENTS PAGE, about Altair as a means to cultivate perceptual and adaptive reasoning. My involvement with what later became known as Altair Designs began in 1968, while working in London with Dr. Ensor Holiday. The initial impulse arose from a […]
Launch of ‘Visual Thinking’: Five Books on Art and Geometry
“Visual Thinking, Seeing Through Time” is a five-book odyssey through the human experience in Architecture, the Arts, and Geometry from the dawn of consciousness to the frontiers of artificial intelligence.
The Story of Visual Thinking—Geometry, Architecture, and the Arts. AI Audio Review.
An AI-generated 30 minute audio review of my latest book.
Nazca Lines: Spirals and Labyrinths
This will be my only post for 2021 as I’ve been working on my new book all to do with visualization and imagination in the arts and architecture; through time (almost complete). This post is from my 2020 paper given at Bridges Math/Art 2020. Two animations and one illustration sequence. The Nazca giant-geoglyph spirals that […]
PCCAPS
Have been working with four Park City, Utah, high school students on projects for Rockwell Collins and Overstock.com – as part of the PCCAPS program. The idea is to have students work on valid projects for corporations and to build experience with professional protocol, new types of software, problem solving, etc.
PCCAPS
Have been working with three high school seniors, and one junior, on projects for Rockwell Collins and Overstock.Com – as part of the PCAPS program, Park City, Utah. The CAPS concept is to link students with corporations and have them work on real projects that will build their professional skills, broaden their experience with hardware […]
The Geomorph Exhibition at the Leonardo
The “Geomorph – When Mathematics Meets Art Everything Changes,” at the Leonardo in SLC was very successful with lots of visitors. The exhibition was organized in four sections: 1. Geometry Through Time; 2. Dynamic Sphere Geometry; 3. Shape Changers; and 4. Images and Altair Designs. The workshops also turned out to be a great success with […]
KPCW – Talking about Geomorph and about the process of invention
Appeared on KPCW this morning to talk about my upcoming exhibition, workshops, and residency, at the Leonardo, in Salt lake City – Utah’s Creative Science and Technology Museum. If you’d like to hear the broadcast please visit: http://kpcw.org/2012/09/the-mountain-life-sept-12-2012/. We talked about my experience as an inventor, and what it takes to be one, but, primarily, we […]
The Leonardo: Everything Changes When Math Meets Art
The “Geomorph,” exhibition date approaches and I’ll be building shape-changing geometrical structures; preparing large high definition LCDs, to display animations of new and ancient geometries, setting up an interactive program designed as a visual and geometrical game of logic; printing out posters that show the geometries and the mathematics behind them, and collecting materials so […]