by Celia Wood | Apr 4, 2020 | Independent Study
I read this article on fractals which talked about using computer analysis and pattern analysis to investigate the fractals in Jackson Pollock’s art. Australian researcher Richard Taylor writes that his “scientific curiosity was stirred when I learned that many of...
by Celia Wood | Apr 2, 2020 | Independent Study
A common theme throughout discussions of the mathematics behind nature is the use of recursion. Recursion in computer science and mathematics refers to a function where it references itself. Recursion is the basic concept for the fractals I have been researching. The...
by Celia Wood | Apr 1, 2020 | Independent Study
While I was researching fractals, I read this article on a new curve that was identified in 2015. Mathematician and artist Edmund Harriss discovered a new fractal curve that no one had drawn before. Harriss was trying to draw branching spirals like those found in...
by Celia Wood | Apr 1, 2020 | Independent Study
My brother gave me a book by physicist Frank Wilczek, A Beautiful Question, which looks at the fundamental question of whether nature is essentially a “work of art.” Wilczek looks at how we can develop a “fully unified description of nature at the deepest level” by...
by Celia Wood | Mar 25, 2020 | Independent Study
After coming across the Harvard collection of glass invertebrates, I went looking for more information about the Blaschka models. I came across the book Sea of Glass: Searching For The Blaschka’s Fragile Legacy In An Ocean At Risk, by Dr. Drew Harvell. Harvell is a...
by Celia Wood | Mar 18, 2020 | Independent Study
After I encountered Haeckel, I began looking more into sea creatures and biological forms. During this research, I came across the Blaschka Glass Invertebrates Collection at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka were a father and son duo...
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