FYS - Mathematics of Art - Fall 2021
- Important Course Documents and Info
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Daily Class Information
- Monday 8/30 - Our First Meeting
- Thursday 9/2 - Day 1
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Tuesday 9/7 - Day 2
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
LINK TO BOOK - Reading - Rythmic Form In Art
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
ART EXAMPLES
Basilica of San Miniato al Monte
Portrait of Fra Luca Paciolii Attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari - Lauwers, Luc & Willekens, Marleen: Five Hundred Years of Bookkeeping: A Portrait of Luca Pacioli (Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1994, vol. XXXIX issue 3 p. 289-304) pdf, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=670307
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Thursday 9/9 - Day 3
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
LINK TO BOOK - Reading - Rythmic Form In Art
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
ART EXAMPLES
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian Man - Leonardo da Vinci
Sounds of the Golden Ratio
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Tuesday 9/14 - Day 4
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
LINK TO BOOK - Reading - Rythmic Form In Art
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
ART EXAMPLES
The Apple Logo
Golden Spiral over Greek Temple
Pentagram over Pen Drawing
Spiral Galaxy
Sunflower
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Thursday 9/16 - Day 5
Lesson Plan
No Lecture Notes - We are talking about the essay and doing some art in class today.
Essay Project 1 - Info
Homework and Reading
Reading - no new reading - start doing some research for your essay.
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
EXAMPLES from TEAMS
Concert Poster - Clarissa Nichole
Creation of Adam - Jack
Calculator- Jakob
Birth of Venus- London
Fire Hydrant - Lucas
Egyptian Pharaoh - Sydney
Wave of Kanagawa - Thomas
Day 6 - No Class
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Tuesday 9/28 - Day 8
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
Link for Submitting Essay 1 (by 11:59pm on Thursday 9/30)
EXAMPLES from TEAMS
You should check out what people are posting on teams. There is already some really beautiful art there!
FIBBONACI SEQUENCE - Fun Videos (originally from Kass)
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant - Part 1
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant - Part 2
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant - Part 3
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Thursday 9/30 - Day 9
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
Link for Submitting Essay 1 (by 11:59pm on Thursday 9/30)
ART EXAMPLES
Ascending and Descending, 1960. MC Escher
Self Portrait, MC Escher
St. Peters Abby, Salzburg Austria.
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Tuesday 10/5 - Day 9.5
Lesson Plan
We will finish up the lecture from last time - see the notes on Day 9
Homework and Reading
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
SURVEYS
College Persistence Questionnaire - Your responses are confidential, but will be shared with your advisor to help support you in your academic carreer. You will need your student ID number
Global Perspectives Inventory - Your participation is voluntary and your answers are anonymous.
More information about these surveys
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Thursday 10/7 - Day 10
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
In Class Worksheet
Final Spreadsheet - so you can check you work
Homework and Reading
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
- Thursday 10/14 - QPR Training
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Tuesday 10/19 - Day 11
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
ART EXAMPLE
Peeter Neeffs the Elder Antwerp cathedral by day (ANTWERP ACTIVE 1605 - ANTWERP 1656/61)
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Thursday 10/21 - Day 12
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Worksheet
Homework and Reading
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
ART EXAMPLE
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six point perspective - Termesphere
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Tuesday 10/26 - Day 13
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Essay 2 - Due 11/4
Homework and Reading
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
ART EXAMPLES
Albrecht Durer- St. Jerome in his Study
Hans Holbein - The Ambassadors
William Scrots - King Edward VI
Istvan Orosz
Street Art
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Thursday 10/28 - Day 14
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Essay 2 - Due 11/4
Homework and Reading
READING:
A History of Photography - Part 1
A History of Photography - Part 2
A History of Photography - Part 3
Lecture Video - Posted to Teams Video Channel
ART EXAMPLES and VIDEO
Realistic Paintings and Drawings:
Joahnnes Vermeer - The Music Lesson
Joahnnes Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earling
Charles Bargue - The Chess Game
Cameral Obscura:
Camera Lucida
Cameral Obscura Print
Camera Obscura Painting
Camera Obscura
Physics of Pinhole Camera:
How to see without Glasses
- Tuesday 11/2 - Day 15
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Thursday 11/4 - Day 16
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
Hand in Essay 2 - Moodle
What are Fractals:
Koch Curve (famous fractal)
Sirpinski Triangle (famous fractal)
Hex Fractal Carpet
Fractal Tiling by http://www.robertfathauer.com/
Circle Limit - Fractal Tessellation
The Mandelbrot Set:
Mandelbrot Set Zoom
TED Talk - Benoit Mandelbrot
Fractals in Art:
The Great Wave of Kanagawa by Hokusai
HOMEWORK HELP
Famous fractals you can draw by hand
- Tuesday 11/9 - Day 17
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Thursday 11/11 - Day 18
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
TESSELATIONS IN ART
Moorish Tilings
MC Escher Seahorse - http://www.mcescher.com/
MC Escher Clowns
Bridget Riley - https://www.artsy.net/artist/bridget-riley/works
Victor Vasarely Vega - http://www.artnet.com/artists/victor-vasarely/
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Tuesday 11/16 - Day 19
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Worksheet handed out in class
Solutions
Homework and Reading
Tessellating Regular Polygons:
21 Arangements
8 New Regular Tessellations - Single Vertex
Multi Vertex Tessellations
TESSELATION EXAMPLES
Church Floor Tessellation
Real World Tessellations
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Thursday 11/18 - Day 20
Lesson Plan
Lecture Notes
Homework and Reading
Tessellating Regular Polygons:
Translations of Grid
Connecting Centroids
Combining Shapes in One Tessellation
Examples from MC Escher
Humans Tessellation
Lizzards Tessellation
Circle Limit
Metamorphosis 1
Metamorphosis 2
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Tuesday 11/30 - Day 21
Lesson Plan
Homework and Reading
Essay 3
Final Portfolio
Final Exam Schedule -- There is always a link on the academic calendar for the final exam schedule.
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THursday 12/2 - Day 22
Lesson Plan
Homework and Reading
Due Monday December 13th 11:59pm
Hand in Essay 3 - Moodle
Hand in Final Portfolio - Moodle
Day 7 - Library Visit
Tuesday 10/12 - Fall Break Study Day
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