Is ART dead? Mathspig Portraits by AI

I asked the following FREE, NO SIGNUP AI image generators to produce an image of a

PIG THAT LOVES MATH

Web Journey LINK

Deep AI LINK

Cut Out LINK

Web Journey LINK

Art Guru LINK

Web Journey LINK

Image 2 Go LINK

Web Journey LINK

And the world became a little crazier …

I asked some AI ART programs to draw a crazy mathematician. Here are the results with links BELOW!

hotpot art generation link

Craiyon AI Link

And the WINNER is ART GURU:

ART GURU LINK

Mona Chalabi’s Data Art: Maths never looked so good even the dick graphs

Mona Chalabi is a British-Iraqi data journalist and illustrator based in London. She specialises in all things data.

An outstanding communicator her work proves that MATH can be artistic and ART can be data-based. She is an honorary fellow of the British Science Association.

Mona Chalabi Self Portrait on INSTAGRAM

WARNING: Mona Chalabi INSTAGRAM account is politically graphic and contains sexually explicit graphs. Yeah! Dick graphs etc. The Instagram links in this post connect with individual illustrations.

1. Mona Chalabi on Jeff Bezos’ Wealth. 

I found Mona Chalabi through her illustrated New York Times article (7 April, 2022) 9 WAYS TO IMAGINE JEFF BEZOS’ WEALTH. 

So Jeff Bezos personal wealth is $172 Billion (US$) Her Toblerone Block vs Mt Everest comparison was in this article.

NOTE: Median wealth is the mid-point wealth ie. 50% of Americans have more wealth. 50% of Americans have less wealth.

2. Mona Chalabi CAFFEINE DATA ON INSTAGRAM

Mona also includes relevant the data in her posts. eg.

 

3.  Mona Chalabi on OUR MOST COMMON FEARS on INSTAGRAM

4. Mona Chalabi on Earth’s Orbit on INSTAGRAM

Make A Maths FACE Mask

MATERIALS:  Sheet of paper (eg. A4), ruler, scissors & coloured felt pens.

I am using an Aranea Black Mask Design. We are going to design and make a MATHS MASK PATTERN. If you want to make one out of fabric you will find all the necessary instructions here.

Stunning Art based on Maths

Adam R McCausland is a Belfast-based graphic designer whose stunning works incorporate maths themes.

Here is his work (below) titled Fibonacci / Poinsettia

This work (below) is titled: At theHeart of it all. I’ve never seen mirrored Fibonacci curve before. Fascinating. 

What fibonacci art can your class make today?

You can find more of Adam’s inspiring maths art works here.

Math Street Art

Mathspig is a writer by trade and I’ve suddenly seen the parallels between Street Art and Writing.

But as Mathspig I am gobsmacked to find street artists devoted to mathematics too. Woo Hoo! More street art in my Kerry Cue Author Twitter feed. Click on sidebar.

Street Art by German Case of the Maclaim Crew, East Harlem, NY

Why not paint a maths mural of your own at school?

Math found in Strange Places

Mathspig was walking down a street in her home town, Melbourne, when she came across this Street Art piece on a wall of an auto-repair shop in Lygon St, Brunswick.

She nearly did a backflip with mathematical joy.

Fibonacci Rules!!!!!!!

10 CRAZY CREATIVE MATHS BLOGS

Background pattern found here.

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Botanica Mathematica is a Mathematical knitting blog  with patterns included run by Dr Julia Collins and Haggis the Sheep.

 

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 The Mathematician’s Shirts! is a creative maths blog run by Julia Collins and Madeleine Shepherd. Yes! The same Julia Collins as above. It is a small collection of shirts but Big on imagination and this project is something middle school students could tackle using an old shirt. More on Flikr here.

 

 

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The Division by Zero blog is very mathsy. Seriously mathsy. It is run by David Richeson, Professor of Mathematics at Dickinson College. Even though it involves tertiary level maths it is full of curiosities about maths such as this gem below:

 

 

I particularly loved the post about Gabriel’s Horn:

And pictures of Gabriel’s horn made out of paper cones. Gabriel’s horn is the surface obtained by revolving the curve y = 1/x for x> or = 1/2 about the -axis. Mathematics professors ‘wow’ introductory calculus students by sharing its paradoxical properties: it has finite volume, but infinite surface area. As they say, “you can fill it with paint, but you can’t paint it.”

 

The Golden Arches get a working over as well. Are they based on a parabola, Catenary (strung up chain hanging under it’s own weight) or other. It turns out it is other … the Golden Arches fit an ellipse.

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Visualising Math is a terrific Tumblr feed run by Monica Anuforo and Casey M. both college maths students from Minnesota, USA. I think Monic’a comments on the blog tell us all how important it is to engage Middle School students.

 

Monica Anuforo: Hello! I’m an 19 year old Nigerian-American female. Obviously, I’m a fan of mathematics. I was one of those people who were lucky enough to find out that MATH IS AWESOME as early as middle school as opposed to later in life.

 

 

The Tumblr feed is a fabulous collection of mathematical images including fractals, gifs and jokes. Some of these images (See below) could be drawn, coloured or constructed by Middle School students so they too can discover that maths is awesome!!!

 

 

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Math for Lovers is an anonymous Tumblr feed run by Kcmr. It is an eclectic collection of maths art, gifs and jokes. While it hasn’t been updated for awhile the images are still worth exploring. Here are just two:

Faig Ahmed is an internationally recognized artist from Baku, Azerbaijan, who represented Azerbaijan at the Venice Biennale in 2007. He is well known for his conceptual works that utilize traditional decorative craft and the visual language of carpets into contemporary sculptural works of art.

Cut and paste novel wall art at etsy.

You have to love a maths blog that announces:

This is why geometry is important kids. It can blow your mind.

This is a brilliant clip of Klemens Torggler’s kinetic art door based on rotating squares. The special invention makes it possible to move the object sideways without the use of tracks.

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Math is Beautiful,a maths tumblr stream, is oldish and seriously mathsy but some of the stunning visual images and interesting gifs would intrigue Middle school students. e.g. The image below is a screen grab of a circle of dots that rolls around the circumference inside a bigger circle …. but … but .. but … the gif shows that the dots actually only move along the diameters marked. Fas-kin-ating!

 

 

Here is another screen shot (above) of a gif tagged ‘I cannot stop staring at this. Try it. Your mind will be taken over by a higher power.

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The Advanced Geometry Tumblr stream is a stunning visual feast combining art, geometry and design. By art I mean … could be arty but naked bodies. But exploring the imagery is simply inspiring.

 

Randomly Generated Polygonal Insects by ‘Istvan’ for NeonMob

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Susan Lombardo created the Math and Fiber blog for students in an upper division college geometry course. The beauty of this blog it gives step by step instructions on how to create a crocheted coral reef, adds the maths behind the project and many interesting links.

CONSERVATION CROCHET Project at the University of Washington

And Gabrielle Meyers’ Hyperbolic Surfaces

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Hyperbolic Crochet Blog

Also check out Hyperbolic Crochet Blog of a Palestinian Maths teacher. Daina Taimina combines math education, knitting and crochet and her love of art in her book Crocheting Adventures with the Hyperbolic Planes. This blog also provides a fascinating looking at math taught in a different language and script!!!!!!

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The Virtual Math Museum links you to some of the most fabulous maths artists in the world including:

Brian Johnston and his Hydrogen Orbital (above)

and Luc Bernard and his Kuen’s Surface:

A Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Quantum Fields.

 

 

And more ….

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Hellooooooooo My Sweet Little Picassos,

Mathspig has gone, like, totally Cubist this month. You too can turn any portrait of yourself into a Cubist Master piece (See Mathspig portrait above), here.

Mathspigs maths friends, Lyn and Erwin, who I met at the 13e Salon Culture & Jeux Mathematique, Paris, have sent me a reminder about their amazing Cryptocube construction kit (Mathspig is twirling one above) . This is not for the faint hearted. It’s a Big Maths challenge, but well worth the investment especially for schools. You can learn more about the Zometool Cryptocube construction kit here.

Meanwhile, here are links to 10 Amazing Ways to See a Cube:

1. Tube Cube

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2. Folded Paper Cube

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3. Anamorphic Cube

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4. Floating Cube

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5. Street Art Cube

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6. EDIBLE CUBE

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7. GIANT CUBE

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8. Spaghetti Cube

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9. Fashion Cube

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10. CUBIC BUBBLE

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Toodles

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Mathspig

 

5. Street Art Cube

Street Art Cube by Indian born artist Aakash Nihalani

Street Art Cube by Indian born artist Aakash Nihalani

Rubik’s Cube by chalk artist Anthony Cappetto, art after hours

the Business of Street Painting blog

Cube Art, Old City Belgrade, Serbia

Cubic Housing, Rotterdam Netherlands. The cubes are supported by hexagonal posts.