2023 Bridges Conference Art Exhibition
Richard Hammack, Vic Bednar
Artists
Richard Hammack
Professor of Mathematics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Vic Bednar
PhD Candidate
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Statement
This work is an exploration of mathematical pop-ups that are 2-dimensional when closed, but unfold to more complex structures. For example, the hypercube card is flat when closed, but, when opened, unfolds into a three-dimensional "drawing" of a four-dimensional cube.
Artworks
This work is a card stock box containing a set of mathematical pop-up cards that viewers may pick up and unfold. The piece pictured here is a card stock pop-up card that, when opened, unfolds to a 3-D orthographic projection of a four-dimensional cube. Other pop-ups (not pictured) include 3-dimensional polyhedra and other curious constructions.