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A Graceful Sculpture's Showy Snow Crash Brent Collins has spent more than two decades carving gracefully curvaceous sculptures out of wood. Collins is not a mathematician, yet his intuition and aesthetic sense have led him to explore patterns and shapes that have an underlying mathematical logic. |
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April 15, 2006 |
Sculpting Life's Machinery Sculptor Julian Voss-Andreae creates novel artworks inspired by the three-dimensional structures of proteins. His newest work goes on display next month. |
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February 16, 2002
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A Snowy Twist Snow-sculpture of mathematical shapes. |
Science News
September 16, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Plato's Molecule The Pythagoreans believed that the dodecahedron formed the "timbers" on which the spherical bulk of the heavens was built. This Platonic solid has been an object of fascination for millennia. Now, the dodecahedron is in the news again... |
