Plots of the Exponential Function over the Complex Plane
May 21, 2015, 12:00 amI was inspired by this tumblr post, and this wikimedia page to make some pretty pictures of the exponential function over the complex plane. Go there to read in more detail how the images were created, including how the colors were created.
Code is found here.
Hi definition images are found...
Tracking Venus and Earth over 8 years
May 19, 2015, 12:00 amI came about this tweet:
https://twitter.com/SciencePorn/status/599718978307620864/
It reminded me strongly of the waning moon and linear mod art projects that I’ve been playing with.
For instance, here’s a screenshot from the waning moon (specifically y = 56x)
A quick intro: the pictur...
Linear Modulus Art
April 28, 2015, 12:00 amI saw this fantastic webpage a couple of months back.
Tons of fun. I took that idea and made a gif for my weird art Tumblr, Recursive Processing.
Here’s the processing.org code and the live (and smoother) version, and here’s the more fun version that is interactive based on the mou...
The Mandelbrot Set Viewed through Precalculus
April 17, 2015, 12:00 amI’ve given this presentation in November 2014 at AMTNYS in Syracuse, and in April 2015 at NCTM in Boston. I’ll be giving the presentation in May 2015 at the NY Master Teacher Conference, and in July 2015 at Twitter Math Camp in Claremont CA.
Drive
Why use the Mandelbrot fractal to get...
Using the arctan Power Series to Calculate Pi
March 12, 2015, 12:00 am(Note: this post is an extension on the calculating pi with python post from a couple of years back. Also here’s another way to inefficiently calculate pi with Buffon’s Needles.)
We’re currently working with Power series and Taylor series in Calculus.
One particularity pretty derivation is...
recursiveprocess(ing) at tumblr
March 10, 2015, 12:00 amFor future info, I’ll be posting the “art” images that I make with processing on tumblr, specifically the recursiveprocessing.tumblr.com. So follow there if interested. If not, then don’t!
Here’s a sample of the stuff going up on that site.
Pulsar (Processing Sketch)
March 3, 2015, 12:00 amJust playing around with Processing. Inspired by tumblrs like Experiments in Processing and Bees and Bombs.
Code is found here.
Edit:
Pulsar 2:
Code is found here.
Car Talk Gone Fishing Puzzler
March 1, 2015, 12:00 amTOM: Three guys go out fishing. They decide in advance that whatever they catch, they’re going to divvy it up equally.
So, they finish fishing for the day. They pull back into port, and they’re going to sleep on the boat overnight. They’re going to get up in the morning, divvy up...
How do I start Programming?
February 23, 2015, 12:00 amThese excerpts are from a response to a reader on the wonderful tumblr by Jerome Herr, Experiments In Processing.
Learning to code is like learning a natural language: it’s quite hard and slow at first but if you hold on just a little then suddenly you start seeing all the beauty of it and you...
Car Talk Product Placement Puzzler
January 5, 2015, 12:00 amRAY: There are a lot of our little children who listen to Car Talk who are studying Algebra, so I thought I would ask them to simplify the following polynomial.
TOM: Let me just write this down. OK.
RAY: X plus A in parentheses times X minus B in parentheses times X plus C in parenthe...