Anne Ligon Harding and Clayton Shonkwiler

Senior Analyst; Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Grand Rounds; Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Anne Ligon Harding is a data analyst and printmaker. She works on improving access and outcomes in education and medicine.

Clayton Shonkwiler is a mathematician and artist. He is committed to using geometry to understand the world.

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13 x 15 x 13 cm
Hand-cranked animation box
2019

As you turn the crank, this hand-drawn animation shows the cross-sections of an infinite column of hypercubes stacked corner-to-corner. Along the way you encounter regular tetrahedra, truncated tetrahedra, and, as the central slice of the hypercube, a regular octahedron.