/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12141318

There are a series of "reddit-tier" associations which are fairly well-known by people familiar with art history. Classic artists often have interest in the platonic solids, as I just indicated with the Dali example (which apes Renaissance ideals).

Sometimes, modern conceptual artists take a process and just autistically carry it all the way through, to see what it actually looks like. The conceptual artist Tom Friedman decided to draw a tree-diagram starting with a line segment, then branching off two in 45 degree angles which were slightly shorter, and so on and so forth until termination. One might find such a piece boring, but it's another example of mathematical art, at any rate.

Primitives have been making visual depictions of knot-patterns forever, which sometimes have rotational symmetry and therefore fascinate. Try actually looking at a page of the Book of Kells. Staring at it, for twenty minutes or longer. Analyzing it. The same thing more-or-less, smaller and smaller, again and again. Fractals. Pic related doesn't do it justice, you can zoom in much closer on a university link (Trinity Dublin collections, can provide link if requested).