Gabriele Meyer
Aside from crocheting hyperbolic surfaces, I also like to make
linoleum prints. My favorite subjects are sea shells. They have a
variety of mathematical aspects: - snails embody spirals - the growth
of clams often are dilations - the patterns on cone snails, volutes
and others come about through mechanisms that are biological cellular
automata. The curves of these sea creatures are just very beautiful
and inspiring.
This print shows the inside of an abalone (haliotis midae), where
you can see its spiral. The other shell is a whelk, where the
broken outside makes the spiral structure visible.
This linocut depicts an imperial volute (cymbiola imperialis). The
markings on it look similar to Sierpinski triangular patterns and
are generated by cellular automata, where the content of a field
is determined by the contents of its neighboring fields. This
process may or may not converge. But the pattern is beautiful!