Jana Kopfová
As a child, I dreamed to study mathematics and art. I became a
profesional mathematician and my love of art is my hobby. I am trying
to spread the beauty of mathematics through all what I do - through my
lectures, through math circles to high school students, through
animated movies about math, which I helped to create, and lately also
through my art creations. I love flowers and geometrical designs and
playing with the technique a colors.
Inside triangles is a work inspired by my students struggles with
geometry. They often confuse center of the triangle with other
important points like circumcenter or orthocenter or center of the
incircle. They also often tend to claim that for example medians
are always perpendicular to the side of the triangle. I created
fractals from the center of the triangle (blue and purple
pictures) and from the center of the incircle (green and red) and
tried to show how fractals from those 2 different points can
create wonderful patterns similar in some sense and different in
other sense. Pictures also have rotational symmetry in patterns
and colours as well. Look, search, compare and enjoy.