Quilt complex
The quilt on the left is a Broken Star Variation. As Escher knew so well, there's no such thing as plain geometry. However it's possible to take this too far (ok, I don't really mean that!) Here are some amazing mathematical quilts by Diana Venters and Elaine Ellison, who have written a book, Mathematical Quilts: No Sewing Required.Well, now it's time for me to quilt while I'm ahead. (I'll let you know how it turns out...)
Labels: art, mathematics
posted by Nick Barrowman at 2:21 PM
7 Comments:
Hi Nick,
Thanks for this great blog, your posts are fascinating ! It remembers me the very nice experience working a summer at Chalmers research group ;-)
About Mathematical Quilts, it made me think to a man who is also doing art with mathematics : Benoit Mandelbrot.
This man did also a courageous work on market variations, showing how the Black-Scholes model underestimates extremes market variations (assuming errors are distributed like the gaussian curve)...
Thanks again,
Youenn.
about me... I have been doing my Phd in genetic epidemiology on "risk estimation in HNPCC (hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer) families" for a couple of months now. I find familial data fascinating (at least in a statistical point of view !).
Hi Youenn,
Great to hear from you!
Genetic epidemiology seems to be a very active area of research these days. I wonder if there has been any work on graphical/visualization methods for this ...
Nick
One of the most famous paper is probably A haplotype map of the human genome where authors (the list is such huge that some are probably cited twice!) did some amazing graphs to show a new (never plotted!) kind of information. See
Fig. 6
Fig. 8
Fig. 10
Fig. 15.
I have to work my R !
I will let you know if I find some ugly ones ;-)
Youenn.
I already found some ! See the "top ten worst graphs"
A blink of an eye to your blog : the last one (number 10, see the discussion)
Youenn
Youenn, I especially like Figure 15 from the haplotype map paper. The "top ten worst graphs" were interesting to look at, although I think they are not nearly as bad as some I've produced myself!
I've tried but... no... I can't imagine your "bad graphs"... I guess it may corresponds to one of my bests ? Did you keep one as a relic ? Send me by e-mail if you don't want to publish it ;-) it could become a legend... and I could get a good price !
Youenn
fascinating stuff, I love math and art and the way they are related. These designs remind of Navajo rugs. Interesting post and great blog. Thanks.
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