Digital Art and Galleries

The 'Digital Art' wing of The Mathematical Museum is an exhibition of unique specimens from the various collections of this museum found to be most beautiful. This selection reflects a very personal view, of course.

The 'Mathematical Museum' is part of the Math-Net Links to the Mathematical World.
There also is an Index to selected abbreviations of institutions and resources.

Example: from the famous Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection at the Library of the University of Augsburg.


Example: via query 'astro% calend% & 1776' in the "Recherche" menu
E-mail: hans.schoft@bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de

Mount Athos (or Hagion Oros i.e. Holy Mountain) constitutes the heart of the Christian Orthodox ascetic life for more than one thousand years. The Restauration of Mt. Athos Byzantine Icons is one of the projects of the Computer Vision and Image Processing Group at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece.


Example: Christ, as depicted at the Templon of the Monastery of Stavroniketa, a Mt. Athos portable icon.
Contact: Prof. I. Pitas
E-mail: pitas@zeus.csd.auth.gr

An collection of compelling images from an annual international juried exhibition of photgraphs presented by The Peoria Art Guild and by Bradley University.


Example: "Love Henry" from Wall 1 of Digital Photography '95
Author: Al Crane

The program is partially supported by a grant from The Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Dürer, Albrecht (b. May 21, 1471, Imperial Free City of Nürnberg [Germany]--d. April 6, 1528, Nürnberg), painter and printmaker generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. (From the WebMuseum, Paris; see the Exits to other Museums)


Example: Detail of Melancolia I; is it dealing with mathematics?

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Durham, UK, intends posting pictures relevant to the research interests of members of the department.


Example: Solution to a convection diffusion test problem.
E-mail: a.j.perella@dur.ac.uk

M.C. Escher Patterns: Plane, spherical and torus tilings (demos and software) from Yoshiaki Araki, Keio University, Fujitsawa, Japan.


Example: Maowani as found in 1995
Author: Yoshiaki Araki

The Quasitiler is one interactive example from a digital exhibition of the Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, USA.


Example: Quasitiler with Zoom=none, Edges=ON, Tiles=ON, Color=ON
Author: Eugenio Durand
E-mail: durand@geom.umn.edu

Generates various Penrose tilings, or allows the design of one owns nonperiodic tilings of the plane by setting alternate parameters. In the process, one can also select and visualize plane cross-sections of a lattice in anywhere from 3 up to 13 dimensions.

Canvas and paintbrush from the underground art world of Paul Haeberli. From Japanese poetry to texture mapping, you'll find a variety of tips and tricks.


Example: Some Digitally Stirred Paint, as taken from the Gallery of pictures in August 1995.
Contact: Paul Haeberli
E-mail: paul@sgi.com

Hyperbolic patterns and tilings (demos and software) from John Mount, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.


Example: Small Hyperbolic Tiling
E-mail: jmount+@cs.cmu.edu

The Project Optics and Topography Involving the Cornea And Lens is studying the cornea, the front part of the eye that is responsible for three quarters of the light refraction in the eye.


Example: Result of a Simulation of a new Algorithm on a Keratoconic Surface as found in Sep 1995

Author: OPTICAL research group of the University of California at Berkeley Computer Graphics Group
E-mail: optical@cs.berkeley.edu

Images from the book by Helaman Ferguson, as selected by Paul Brown, FineArt Online Gallery.


Example: Umbilic Torus NC as found in Sep 1995

This visualization of a hairpin vortex tube was rendered using 60 nodes of NASA Langley's Paragon XP/S. The parallel graphics library (PGL) was developed at ICASE to run on supercomputers, networked workstations, or stand-alone graphics servers.


Example: Parallel Rendering of Complex Vortical Flows

Author: David C. Banks, Tom Crockett: ICASE; Bart Singer, Ron Joslin: NASA Langley
E-mail: banks@icase.edu

A.T. Fromenko, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a well known expert in geometry, calculus of variations and hamiltonian Mechanic.


Example: a digitized painting actually and no true digital art.
Author: Anatoly T. Fromenko

Example: from the fractals section of the Graphics Archive of The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota, USA.

Multimedia pictures from the math-art section of the SITO archives.


Example: Diamond, as taken from the gallery in August 1995.
Author: Steve Whealton

The math-art images are generated purely by mathematical equations. Go to the math-art directory of the link given above for aces to pictures from other mathematically oriented artists.

From the collection of the Geometry Center Picture Archive exposing a piece of differential geometry art.


Example: Snapshot of George Francis' "Illiview" viewer displaying the Sudanese Moebius band, whose boundary is a circle.
Author: George Francis

You may get a more accurate version (original size 213K TIFF) by following the image's link. The URL given on top leads you to the famous picture arhive of the Geometry Center.

This is a realization a new animation of the sphere everting made by using an algorithm of Bill Thurston.


Example: Transparent Red-Blue Eversion as taken from the Geometry Center Picture Archive.