2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Rashmi Sunder-Raj
Artists
Rashmi Sunder-Raj
Mathematical Artist
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Statement
For now, "Mathematical Artist" seems to be a reasonable approximation to a definable part of what I am. I have found much enjoyment feeling about for geometric truths and beauty. Decades-old files have reminded me about geometric experiments, drawing my interest back to rings of regular polygons. This has recently led to an exploration of partial rings of n-gons chained together in a fashion where the number of n-gons in each vary according to a sequence. Experimentally, I have found that the simple sequence obtained by incrementing the number by 1 each time results in a chain ("polygon squiggle") whose convex hull can be used to form a rotational pattern of 4n units for n odd or 2n for n even. This has, of course, led to some art...
Artworks
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