Mathematical Art Gallery

This page is a sub-page of the page on our Mathematical Explainatorium.

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Related KMR-pages:

Art
Arcimboldo
Oscar Reutersvärd
M.C. Escher
Surrealism
Shift of Basis in Art
Conformal Face Mapping

The Moebius Strip
The Klein Bottle

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Related sources of information:

Mathematics and Art

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The interactive simulations on this page can be navigated with the Free Viewer
of the Graphing Calculator.

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Escher’s Angels and Devils moving in the Riemann-Poincaré disk:

The Riemann-Poincaré model
The Beltrami-Klein model
Hyperbolic Geometry
Non-Euclidean Geometry
Metric Geometry
Projective Geometry
Projective Metrics
The Euclidean Degeneration

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“Heaven and Hell” in hyperbolic space:
(Vladimir Bulatov on YouTube)

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The Feminine Archetypical Form(ula): \, z \, = \, \nabla \cdot \dfrac{\mathbf{V}}{| \, \mathbf{V} \, |} \; , \; where \; \mathbf{V} = \begin{bmatrix} y \\ x \\ z \end{bmatrix} .

Vector Analysis
Vektoranalys (in Swedish)
Gradients

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Devil transformed by the complex exponential function: \, w \, = \, e^{z + \textcolor{red}{p}} \, :

Devil transformed by complex sin: \, w \, = \, \sin(z + \textcolor{red}{p}) \, :

Conformal Mappings (Ambjörn Naeve on YouTube)
Conformal Face Mapping
Conformal Mapping
Geometric Numbers
Complex Numbers

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Complex Multiplication:

Complex Spiralization:
(this video was created by mistake, while trying to simulate complex multiplication)

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The Radian Angle Measure:

Explaining the Radian Angle Measure:

Interactive simulation of the Radian angle measure.

Trigonometry:

The Sin and Cos functions:

Interactive simulation of the Sin and Cos functions.

Interactive simulation of the Sin and Cos functions extended.

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A Trigonometric Inequality:

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Trigonometry
Complex Trigonometry

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Stereographic projection of a spherical circle:
[Stereographic projection means projection from the north pole of the sphere
onto the tangent plane at its south pole]:

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Stereographic Projection
The Mercator Map Projection

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Möbius Transformations Revealed
(Jonathan Rogness on YouTube):

Möbius Transformations

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Reflecting a plane wavefront in a saddle surface turns it into a Dupin Cyclide:

• Dupin Cyclides
Dupin Cyclides as Inversions of Circular Cones
Canal Surfaces
Focal Surfaces
Geometric Optics

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Parallel wave fronts of a hyperbolic paraboloid:

Focal sheets
Conics
Optical Properties of Conics
Quadrics
Optical Properties of Quadrics

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Double-Cylindrical Point Focusing Mirrors

A practical realization of the DC-Point Focus:
(by Thomas Elofsson, 1989):

Pointfocus 3D
Pointfocus 2D
The Double-Cylindrical Point Focus

Talking heads:

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Confocal Quadrics:

Confocal Quadrics 2 – – Elliptic Coordinates – Intersect XY-plane:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

• Confocal Quadrics

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The Tangent Developable of a Circular Helix:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Developable Surfaces

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Inversion of a Tangent Surface (with its Principal Net):

Inversion of a Tangent Surface (with its Osculating Planes):

Canal surfaces
Inversion
Inversive Geometry

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The Rectifying Developable of a Circular Helix:

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Isometric Deformation: from Catenoid to Helicoid and back again:

Isometric Deformations
Differential Geometry
Geodesic Curves

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Parametric Surface – approximate Weingarten Map :

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

The Weingarten Map

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Circular helix – square profile Monge surface:

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PSTC surface:

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CircularHelix-Ellipse-PSTC.guts (n = 2.2):

CircularHelix-Ellipse-PSTC.guts (movie):

CircularHelix-Ellipse-PSTC.guts (movie 2):

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Generalized cylinders

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Trig fractals (Book 2):
(Dave Gates on YouTube)

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Tesseract = 4-Dimensional Cube:
(throughthedoors on YouTube):

Triact = 3-Dimensional Cube:

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The complex exponential function

Electromagnetic radiation

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A planar electromagnetic wave:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

The electric part of the wave: \, E(\mathbf{\hat{k}}, \mathbf{x}, \omega, t) \, = \, e^{ \, i \,(\mathbf{\hat{k}} \cdot \mathbf{x} \, - \, \omega \, t)} \,

The magnetic part of the wave: \, B(\mathbf{\hat{k}}, \mathbf{x}, \omega, t) \, = \, e^{ \, i \, (\mathbf{\hat{k}} \cdot \mathbf{x} \, - \, (\omega \, + \, \pi/2) \, t)} \,

The entire wave: \, E_m(\mathbf{\hat{k}}, \mathbf{x}, \omega, t) \, = \, E(\mathbf{\hat{k}}, \mathbf{x}, \omega, t) \, + \, B(\mathbf{\hat{k}}, \mathbf{x}, \omega, t) \,

Its Poynting vector : \, S \, = \, \frac{1}{{\mu}_0} \, E \, \times \, B

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Electromagnetism

Maxwell and Dirac theories as an already unified theory

Conceptual background:

Geometric Algebra

Clifford Algebra

Historical background:

The Evolution Of Geometric Arithmetic

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The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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Projective pencil-to-pencil transformation:

Dual configuration:

Projective range-to-range transformation:

Projective Geometry
Projective Metrics
The Euclidean Degeneration

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Affine approximation of a function from R^2 to R:

Differentiation and Affine Approximation in one real variable.
Differentiation and Affine Approximation in several real variables.

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Plane Curves:

The Evolute of an Ellipse:

Evolutes and Involutes
Plane Curves
Optical Properties of Conics

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EllipseParallel Curves:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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Cycloids and Trochoids

Cycloid and Trochoid – orbits:

The interactive simulation that generated this movie.
Drag the blue point at the bottom horizontally to change the Trochoid.

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CycloidEvolute:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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CycloidEvolute – Involutes:

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The interactive simulation that will create this movie.

Cycloids and Trochoids

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Inversion of a polar grid:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Interactive simulation of 1/z of a polar grid.
This is very similar to inversion, which would be 1/Conjugate(z).

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Devil-inversion-xy.anim (or, rather, Devil transformed by 1/z):

The interactive simulation that created this movie.
Drag the devil to study the dynamics of the transformation. Note the difference from the video clip. The interactive simulation is a true inversion.

Compare: Interactive inversion of the same Devil in the unit circle.

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EpiTrochoid-center-inverse:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Inverse Curves

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Ellipsefocus-pedal:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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Circle-internal-point-negative-pedal:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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• Pedal Curves

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Cissoid – from a circle, a free point, and a free line:

The distance between the green point and the blue point (on the black line) is equal to
the distance between the red point and the black point.

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Cissoids

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A generic Conchoid:

The interactive simulation that generated this movie.
The green point and the black point can be moved.

Conchoids

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Strophoid – from a circle and two generic points:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.
The green points can be moved.

Strophoids

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Ellipse – Focal Ray Reflect:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Ellipse – Focal Wave Reflect:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Ellipse – Focal Wave/Ray Reflect:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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Ellipse – near-focus caustic:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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Ellipse-Vertex-Caustic:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

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Semi-circle parallel light rays real caustic:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Semi-circle parallel light rays virtual caustic:

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Caustic Curves

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Taylor Expansion

The Taylor polynomial of degree 1 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):
(also known as The Affine Approximation):

{T_{aylor}^1 (f)}_{(a,b)} = f(a,b) + \frac{\partial f}{\partial x}_{(a,b)} (x-a) + \frac{\partial f}{\partial y}_{(a,b)} (y-b)

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

Interactive simulation of Taylor expansion of order 1.
Drag the red point in the left window to move the point of expansion.

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The Taylor polynomial of degree 2 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

{T_{aylor}^2(f)}_{(a,b)} = {T_{aylor}^1 (f)}_{(a,b)} + \dfrac{1}{2} (\frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x^2}_{(a,b)} (x-a)^2 + 2 \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial x \partial y}_{(a,b)} (x-a)(y-b) + \frac{\partial^2 f}{\partial y^2}_{(a,b)} (y-b)^2)

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

Interactive simulation of Taylor expansion of order 2.
Drag the red point in the left window to move the point of expansion.

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The Taylor polynomial of degree 3 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

{T_{aylor}^3(f)}_{(a,b)} = {T_{aylor}^2 (f)}_{(a,b)} + \dfrac{1}{6} (\frac{\partial^3 f}{\partial x^3}_{(a,b)} (x-a)^3 + 3 \frac{\partial^3 f}{\partial x^2 \partial y}_{(a,b)} (x-a)^2 (y-b) + 3 \frac{\partial^3 f}{\partial x \partial y^2}_{(a,b)} (x-a)(y-b)^2 + \frac{\partial^3 f}{\partial y^3}_{(a,b)} (y-b)^3)

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

Interactive simulation of Taylor expansion of order 3.
Drag the red point in the left window to move the point of expansion.

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The Taylor polynomial of degree 4 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

Interactive simulation of Taylor expansion of order 4.
Drag the red point in the left window to move the point of expansion.

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The Taylor polynomials of degrees 1 and 2 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

Gammal:Interactive simulation of Taylor expansion of orders 1 and 2.

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The Taylor polynomials of degrees 1 and 3 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

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The Taylor polynomials of degrees 1 and 4 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

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The Taylor polynomials of degrees 1, 2, 3 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

Interactive simulation of Taylor expansion of orders 1, 2 and 3.

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The Taylor polynomials of degrees 1, 2, 3, 4 for the function f(x, y) at the point (a, b):

The interactive simulation that created this movie.

Den interaktiva simulering som skapade denna film.

Interactive simulation of Taylor expansions of orders 1, 2, 3, and 4.

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