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Bob S @minisess.bsky.social · Mar 21

After building these bookshelves nearly a year ago I promised I would make decorative column toppers for them. I finally got around to designing them in blender and getting them printed and painted. #3DPrinting

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 19h

#PortfolioDay I'm Andy, a mathematician (complex differential geometry) who left academia in 2023 with the aim of cultivating love of math while earning a modest living selling original images and objects created with GPL tools and my own software.

www.diffgeom.com

#MathArt #Jewelry #3DPrinting

Untitled: Photograph of a 3D printed nylon "(2,3,5) trig pyramid" about 70mm corner to corner. https://www.diffgeom.com/blogs/about-math/trig-pyramids/

Pulse: Photograph of a black T-shirt with a wavy surface mesh. https://www.diffgeom.com/product/unisex-tee-pulse/

Core: A digital image of a nested-spherical structure with a red-gold nucleus and an outer shell dotted with purplish slots edged in glowing gold. https://www.diffgeom.com/product/poster-core/

Anemone 7,2: Photograph of a gold-plated brass pendant, about 40mm across, in the shape of a twisted band with seven-fold rotational symmetry. (Sold, but see https://www.diffgeom.com/product/anemone-52-necklace/)

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 21h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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shiz @shirazkn.bsky.social · 1d

Spent a lot of time today playing around with @diffgeom.com's incredible math visualizations www.diffgeom.org/software/ind...

My favorite was the Torus Sketch! Makes me wanna learn Javascript

Andrew D. Hwang: Interactive Math Software

www.diffgeom.org

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 19h

I'm so happy these programs appealed! Thank you for your kind post :)

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amandagefter @amandagefter.bsky.social · Jun 18

He modeled the logic of induction; traced the contours of the embodied mind; hung out with Einstein, Wheeler, and Bohr; gave away millions for art and conservation; fought for civil and gay rights; and lived as a janitor. My new story in @nautil.us

nautil.us/finding-pete...

Finding Peter Putnam

The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

nautil.us

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 23d

Although my online shop Differential Geometry is a primary source of income, I maintain (on a static html site) a list of other creators' mathematical online shops:

www.diffgeom.org/misc/math_sh...

I hope you will browse and support us all!

#MathSky #MathArt #ITeachmath #SmallBusiness

A deep blue mottled annulus surrounds a black hole, or the moon's disk during a total solar eclipse. On closer gaze, silver ant-like shapes follow each other endlessly around a torus. The torus is tiled with a golden hexagonal grid. Each ant is isolated in its own cell.

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 4d

BTW, these are the Walker Canyon poppy fields here in apocalyptic California.

#ShowMeYourHellhole

#FlowerFriday
#FlowersOfBluesky
#MomentOfBeauty
#TheCOLOR

The hills are still alive with #TheColor

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 2d

#MathSky #MathArt #ITeachMath

swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 4d

#ObjectsOfTheDay: I super want a set of all-brass drawing tools like this. Love it.

A set of exquisite brass triangle, rulers, half curves, angle measures….

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Susanna Bauer adds thread and crochet to dried leaves, creating miniature artworks #womensart #Autumn #Fall

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 3d

Ooh, nice!

Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 3d

The interesting part of a parabolic cyclide -- a product torus in the 3-sphere stereographically projected to 3-space from a point on the torus -- about 85mm across, prospectively a brass desktop model.

#MathSky #MathArt #3DPrinting

Photograph of a 3D printed symmetrical white nylon surface shaped like a saddle with a topological handle.

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Just Kate @handmaiduns.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you to my friends for the encouraging words this past week 💙

My latest painting was inspired by the coast, water, movement, anemone, seaweed, connections and the cosmos

Acrylic on board ✨

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 7d

Wisp earrings are discounted 15% through October, or while stock lasts! Price includes shipping within the US.

The shape is swept by translating x=sin(z) in z at unit speed while revolving at unit angular speed about the z-axis.

www.diffgeom.com/product/wisp...

#MathArt #3dPrinting #Jewelry

A photograph of three pairs of undulating nylon earrings, in black, blue, and red.

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 4d

That's why I call this series "Osciloscopic Dance" - see my flight through my "virtual sculpture" from 3D Lissajous Figures!

#SciArt #MathArt

The series comprises still images of them in different colors, seen from different viewpoints.

Canvas prints: store.elkement.art/pages/physic...

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 5d

Six new poster/wall decor designs at Differential Geometry:

www.diffgeom.com/product-cate...

#MathSky #MathArt

A gallery of six mathematical posters:
A sphere resembling an underwater life form with a glowing nucleus;
A purple and green conformal hexagon tiling of a torus, seen from inside;
A white wireframe torus casting a shadow on a virtual calm tropical sea;
A dramatic side-lit red and black form resembling a melted heart;
A blue mollusk shell with a gold coordinate grid looming in a twilit sky;
A field of sky-blue foreground-background arrows masking underlying reality.

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 6d

Decorate your home / office / geek cave with physics-inspired art :)

This diffraction artwork is now available as a print on canvas stretched onto a 18"x12"x1.25" wooden frame!

store.elkement.art/en-eur/produ...

#SciArt #MathArt #PhysicsArt

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 7d

Wisp earrings are discounted 15% through October, or while stock lasts! Price includes shipping within the US.

The shape is swept by translating x=sin(z) in z at unit speed while revolving at unit angular speed about the z-axis.

www.diffgeom.com/product/wisp...

#MathArt #3dPrinting #Jewelry

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 9d

If circles in configuration spaces are your thing, check out my differential-geometric wall clocks, such as this catenoid-helicoid dance, only from Differential Geometry:

www.diffgeom.com/product/wall...

#MathSky #MathArt

Dance around the clock: A gold-red catenoid morphs into a helicoid and back in twelve equally-spaced snapshots of a famous isometric deformation.

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 10d

This conic sections poster is ... Octobery (in the northern hemisphere)
www.diffgeom.com/product/post...

Browse all my poster images:
www.diffgeom.com/product-cate...

#MathSky #MathArt

Sixteen images of a cone rotating about an axis through the vertex and perpendicular to its own axis, cut by a horizontal plane above the vertex, and seen obliquely. Each cone is warmly-colored like molten metal, grading from bright gold to brick red along the cone axis. The images are arranged around a circle like numbers on a clock face, with the image's position equal to the cone's angle of rotation. The cones float against a twilit sky grading from medium blue at the bottom to dark blue, and together they comprise a glowing bracelet-like ring.

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nanma80.bsky.social @nanma80.bsky.social · 11d

Two puzzles I'm building:
🔴 12 pieces slide into a cube with coordinated motions in 2D abstract space.
🔵 30 pieces form a dodecahedron with 4D motions.
Inspired by John Kostick's designs. john-kostick.github.io/vzome-sharin...

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 10d

Very well said!

That is why (regrettably large) parts of mathematical research today amount in practice to weapons work

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks to my friend James Horton, I have just discovered the work of Danish painter of Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941) and HOW CAN A PERSON NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO PAINT SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A PHOTO ON AN IPHONE WHAT IS THIS ABSOLUTE SORCERY.

Photo....no, wait, a PAINTING, by Peder Mørk Mønsted, of the snow-laden banks of a river that looks absolutely photo-real.

Another painting by Peder Mørk Mønsted that looks utterly photo-realistic of a tree-lined river with utterly convincing shades of green-tinted darkness and perfect reflections in the river below.

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Original Math Designs @diffgeom.com · 10d

Beautiful!

Ivan Shishkin's work lands similarly for me; off to peruse Mønsted.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sh...

Ivan Shishkin - Wikipedia

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 10d

I AM STUNNED. Unlocking Justice (now available for preorder) is the #2 public policy book on Amazon, the #1 new release in applied math, and in the top 50 in math overall. Thank you for lifting this work up. If you believe in its optimistic & accessible message, plz share so more people can find it.

Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change

Amazon.com: Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: 9780691276151: Topaz, Chad M.: Books

www.amazon.com

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