Dr. Martin Skrodzki

See you on Friday!

New #MathArt drop for anyone that cannot see the exhibit at JMM (spoilers for those who go).

Granny Life update: The new arrangment will be an 11x11 grid of squares arranged using 11-queens solutions and latin square conditions. I made a little app to find examples: mathgrrl.com/simultaneous...

⚡Also: Still time to claim squares to crochet for this project at www.grannylifecrochet.com !

Photo featuring a delicate looking green blue geometric glass sculpture on a white surface

Geometric sculpture by Japanese glass artist Ikuta Niyoko #WomensArt

A digital flyer for an online seminar titled "Escher-Like Spiral Tilings." The top right features a circular graphic showing black-and-white spiral fractal patterns. Below this is a photo of the speaker, Craig Kaplan from the University of Waterloo. The abstract explains that the talk presents a simple way to think about M.C. Escher's spiral tilings based on the exponential function in the complex plane. Event details are listed as Friday, December 12. Times: US Pacific 9 AM, US Eastern 12 PM, and Central Europe 6 PM. The flyer also lists "Show and Ask" presenters Aaron Abrams and Charis Bouton. The bottom includes a QR code to join via Zoom and the website illustratingmath.org.

The final #illustratingMath seminar online (IMSO) of this year is coming up on Friday, December 12th. We will have @isohedral.ca speak about "Escher-like Spiral Tilings". As always, there will be two flanking "Show and Ask" presentations. Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

A digital flyer for an online seminar titled "Escher-Like Spiral Tilings." The top right features a circular graphic showing black-and-white spiral fractal patterns. Below this is a photo of the speaker, Craig Kaplan from the University of Waterloo. The abstract explains that the talk presents a simple way to think about M.C. Escher's spiral tilings based on the exponential function in the complex plane. Event details are listed as Friday, December 12. Times: US Pacific 9 AM, US Eastern 12 PM, and Central Europe 6 PM. The flyer also lists "Show and Ask" presenters Aaron Abrams and Charis Bouton. The bottom includes a QR code to join via Zoom and the website illustratingmath.org.

The final #illustratingMath seminar online (IMSO) of this year is coming up on Friday, December 12th. We will have @isohedral.ca speak about "Escher-like Spiral Tilings". As always, there will be two flanking "Show and Ask" presentations. Looking forward to seeing you on Friday!

Gallery wall. Closest to the camera: One framed black and white drawing, nine colourful spiraling panels.

Orange woven surface

White ceramic with twists and coils

Three large video screens with coloured geometric models in the foreground

Some views from the Exhibition of Mathematical Art at the AustMS meeting. One big plus of adapting a teaching space to be a gallery is big screens for digital art.

Crochet motifs curving in space.

Swirling crochet decorating a photo frame with woman’s face peeping out

Below an orange top, a mannequin wears a skirt which is fuller at the bottom and hangs in deep ripples

Hyperbolic geometry in fibre and textile art. The crochet of Rebecca George, an homage to Daina Taimina by Jasmin’s Ward-Matievic and skirt pieced from triangles by @asharao.bsky.social

A green bronze sculpture with edges, curves, hollows and a lovely patina

Bronze sculpture in a loop with local variations in thickness and curvature

The art of Benjamin Storch, Australian mathematical sculptor

Me preparing a paper for publication.

Version:
main_final_2_revision_commented_final3a.pdf

#AcademicSky

Maybe the #ArtAdventCalendar also appreciates a bit of #DaDa poetry? Could do 😁

Some very nice #MathArt to be found in the #ArtAdventCalendar. Love how the color pops!

As far as I understand, this position is still open. Thus, if you're looking for a paid position to drive #MathArt forward, consider to apply!

I was also there to connect on the activities of @apnet.bsky.social. Join us, if you are an #AssistantProfessor in the Netherlands. (6/8)
www.ap-net.nl/register

I'm thinking of handing in a proposal for an #illustratingMath and #MathArt meeting. Any suggestions who'd be great attendees from the Netherlands (and Europe, I guess, looking at the budget)?

Scan of a geometrical artwork: Construction of 3D Lissajous Figures from the 2D projections, using ruler and compass, following the rules of orthographic projection. Two self-similar Lissajous Figures are connected to form a ribbon. The 3D ribbon is yellow and the 2D projections are green-blue and blue-violet, respectively. By elkement 2025.

Day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Translucent Heart, 2025.

3D Lissajous Figures, constructed traditionally from their 2D projections which in turn have been constructed by dividing a circle. #MathArt #SciArt

Graphite pencil construction, colored with watercolor pencils, A4 watercolor paper.

illustration of 4 dimensional space . hands offer platonic geometry to a 4d cube whilst other geometrical objects and crystals float around in the mists of time.

It's December 1st - and the start of #ArtAdventCalendar !!
Hi All - I'm Elliott - an illustrator and animator. Here's a recent illustration involving platonic geometry and 4 dimensional space.

#freelanceillustrator #scienceillustration #illustration

In that vein, the proposed experiment could rather be based on priors: Compare people who didn't believe the UTQ will do them any good to those who enter with an open mind. I won't learn anything from anything if I'm busy looking for flaws rather than opportunities. (2/2)

I personally learned a lot in the UTQ that I got paid to do by my faculty @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social. Sure, writing is not fun, but once you accept it as a chance for personal reflection, there is quite a learning potential. (1/2)

Gallery space with mirrors reflecting infinity of balls of multicoloured light against blackness

'Brilliance of the souls', 2014, from Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms series #WomensArt

Photograph of Harmonia, a shiny 1-3/8 in (35mm) silver pendant in the looping shape of a stylized flower with six petals. The piece has a shiny inverted trapezoidal bail fitted with a matching chain and sits on a black background.

Through November, use the code Bsky2025 at checkout for 10% off all my original mathematical jewelry designs! Shown is my newest regular item, Harmonia in sterling silver.
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#MathSky #MathArt #SciArt #Jewelry

Or get ready for next year's #Thanksgiving by starting to cook a turkey today at 1/6 of a degree to have it ready next year!

If you're an #AssistantProf in the Netherlands, please join us at @apnet.bsky.social.

Love the optimism! Nowadays, I usually go for "This is a paper. We try to do things, some don't work, but we still find all of this rather interesting and hope you do, too." 😅

Needed for the exam?

The Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative (GRSI, www.replicabilitystamp.org), a community-driven initiative to promote replicability in Graphics research, is seeking volunteers.

More details in the 'Volunteering' section of the home page.

YouTube video by Nervous System Crafting Radiolaria: turning Microscopic Life into Art

For the holidays, we are offering a set of Radiolaria sculptures for sale. This video shows some of the process of creating them youtu.be/Pti1uavUIG4

Ah, that brings me back to my college year at the Texas A&M International University 😁 Have you tried approaching the students and hearing from them why (or not) they attend the colloquia? (Not that I have high hopes, a similar survey to our students yielded almost no responses. 😟)

A (slightly provocative) question: Is running a lot of things in-person still the way to go? If I think of colleagues with part-time contracts, care-work, other responsibilities, an on-demand or hybrid talk might ease participation thresholds. But I do see the value of direct interaction, of course.