2017 Bridges Conference

Aubin Arroyo and Bianca Violet

Artists

Bianca Violet

Math Communicator

IMAGINARY gGmbH

Berlin, Germany

bianca.violet@imaginary.org

https://about.imaginary.org/

Statement

We enjoy visualizing geometric beauty combined with mathematical content.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Fractal Icosahedron'

Fractal Icosahedron

60 x 60 cm

Fine art print

2016

We took twelve perfectly reflective spheres and arranged them in an icosahedron. There is a sphere at each vertex. While neighboring spheres share a point of tangency, others are disjoint. The icosahedron is set inside a bigger, non-reflective sphere which has a colorful pattern. The pattern is reflected in the smaller spheres over and over again. One reflection symbolizes an inversion on a sphere. All infinitely many inversions generate the limit set of the action of a Kleinian group, which is a fractal. By using reflections instead of inversions, this fractal is approximated.
Image for entry 'Detail of Fractal Icosahedron'

Detail of Fractal Icosahedron

60 x 60 cm

Fine art print

2016