Meeting Alhambra, Granada 2003

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Meeting Alhambra, Granada 2003

• Reflections on the Impact of Art-Math
  Conferences
• Carlo H. SéquinU.C. Berkeley

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Impact of Art-Math Conferences

• I attended 12 Art-Math conferences since
  1997when Nat introduced me to this community.
• Everytime I brought home stimulating ideasthat
  allowed me to grow personally.
• I will show you some examples,as a thank-you to
  the people who inspired me.

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Virtual Model Making for Mathematically Inspired
SculpturesArt-Math'97, SUNY, Albany, 1997.
Hyperbolic Hexagon II
B. Collins
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Virtual Prototyping of Geom. Sculptures
Computers Sculpture, Chicago,1998.

• Solar Arch (with Brent Collins)

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Art, Math, and ComputersBRIDGES98, Winfield KS,
July 29, 1998
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Sculpture Design a Programming TaskART-MATH'98,
U.C. Berkeley, 1998.

• Minimum Curvature-Variation Surfaces

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Computer-Augmented InspirationISAMA 99, San
Sebastian, 1999.

• Doubly-wound Scherk-Collins Toroid

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Analogies from 2D to 3D Exercises in
Disciplined Creativity BRIDGES, Winfield KS,
1999.

• 3D Yin-Yang

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To Build a Twisted Bridge BRIDGES_3,
Winfield KS, 2000.

• Moebius Suspension Bridge

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Turning Math Models into Sculptures MOSAIC 2000,
Seattle, 2000.

• Triply Twisted Figure-8 Klein Bottle

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Symmetries on the SphereISIS Symmetry Congress,
Sydney, 2001.

• 60 Butterflies

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Viae Globi - Pathways on a Sphere Mathematics
and Design, Geelong, 2001.
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Fountain of Creation Design vs.
Meta-DesignBRIDGES _4, Winfield KS, 2001.

• 1022 parallel universes ?

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Sculpture Design Virtual Systems
Multimedia,Berkeley, 2001

• Galapagos (version 5), inspired by Brent Collins

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3D Visualization Models of the Regular Polytopes
in ? 4 DBRIDGES_5, Towson MD, 2002.

• 4D 120-Cell

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Volutions EvolutionMeeting Alhambra Today
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Whirled White Web Art Math in SnowMeeting
Alhambra Friday
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Next ??

• I am looking forward to being stimulated again
• by this great joint conference
• ISAMA BRIDGES
• Meeting Alhambra
• Granada 2003

? Ideas to work on for next year
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Thanks to

• Nat Friedman Reza Sarhangi