Yard Art

Over the years, I produced quite a lot of yard art back at our busy corner in Fayetteville, Ark… … this is just some of what appeared. I’ll add more pix as I find them.

Tubing Sculpture

For a few years, I’ve been playing with tubing sculptures, like these, with the aim of illustrating symmetries of the hypersphere, described in the final chapter of The Symmetries of Things. Here are some in

Gyring Gyroid

Gyring Gyroid (w Eugene Sargent, 2012, in honor of Tom Rodgers) This piece of samurai space insect armor shows a particular mathematical surface, the gyroid, that naturally arises in many forms. Discovered by Alan Schoen,

Double Triamond, w/ Hexastix!

“Double Triamond, w/ Hexastix!” created in collaboration with Eugene Sargent, was assembled at the eighth Gathering for Gardner, at Tom Rodgers’ and Sarah Garvin’s beautiful Japanese style gardens and home in Atlanta in 2008. The

1 of N

This was the second of Eugene Sargent‘s and my collaboration creating participation math art sculptures for the Gathering for Gardner. Here are notes. The fundamental question is, what is N? How many paths were available

5444

Welcome to hyperbolic geometry, with this beautiful steel rendition of the 5444 tiling: at each corner three squares and one pentagon meet, forcing the surface to bend and coil up with negative curvature. The straight

chainsaw sculpture

Wooden chainsaw sculptures, 2003-2011. The great ice storm of 2009 provided many beautiful logs to carve, but eventually, damage from Adobe Illustrator hot keys and the vibrations from the gas powered chainsaw were just too

W.I.U.T.H.E.T.?

Foam fragments of the hyperbolic plane, formed from straight flat strips of foam. Differently spaced teeth on the sides of the strips force them to curve at a steady rate: any surface with equally spaced