Aubin Arroyo and Bianca Violet
Artists
Statement
We enjoy visualizing geometric beauty combined with mathematical content.
Artworks
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.