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Science News
February 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
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.   |
Science News
February 10, 2001
Ivars Peterson |
White Narcissus Alhough sculptor Robert Longhurst's abstract sculptures bear an uncanny resemblance to mathematical forms known as minimal surfaces, they emerge from Longhurst's imagination rather than from mathematics... |
Science News
February 7, 2004
Ivars Peterson |
Turning a Snowball Inside Out Turning a sphere inside out without allowing any sharp creases along the way is a tricky mathematical maneuver. Carving an intricate snow sculpture depicting a crucial step in this twisty transformation presents its own difficulties. |
Science News
December 24, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
A Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities New technologies have made it possible to create 3D models of geometric shapes, magically transforming equations into elegant, intriguing miniatures. |
Science News
February 5, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Knot Divided in Snow Mathematical forms are no longer unusual sights at the annual International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge. Mathematician Stan Wagon of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and his team have carved huge blocks of snow into graceful geometric shapes. |
Science News
April 21, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Forms of Symmetry Group theory inspires a West Coast sculptor. |
Science News
November 11, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Quark Park Math-inspired and science-related artworks enliven an imaginatively landscaped sliver of parkland. |
