There is a thriving scene in mathematical art, often mathematicians with an artistic inclination using their dual skills to visualise abstract ideas. This is somewhat distinct from Generative Art, in that the mathematical concepts usually take centre stage, and although you can enjoy much of the material in a purely visual way full understanding requires a maths background - sometimes at quite an advanced level.
These are a few of the more interesting sites that I have encountered.
| Virtual Maths Museum: |
This is focussed on visualising mathematics rather than doing art - but the images are worth studying. They were produced with the 3D XploreMath application, which the maths students amongst you may well like to download and explore. It apparently works best on an iMac (I can confirm that), though the Java version which will run on Windows is supposed to be catching up. |
| Virtual Maths Museum Mathematical Art Gallery |
The above web site does have a series of links that are more clearly focussed on people who do mathematical Art. |
| Frank Farris (Home) | This is the professional "home" page of Frank Farris who authored the "Creating Symmetry" book which has inspired some of the work on this site. A source of useful links to other sites. |
| Bridges Galleries | See, for example, the "Gallery" material supplied for each of the annual "Bridges" or "Joint Mathematics Meeting" conferences that explore connections between art and maths. |
| Maths Imagery | A page of the American Mathematics Society website listing other links to mathematical art and imagery. |
| Art and Mathematics | An article on the American Mathematics Society website in their monthly series of essays on topics in maths. |
| The Generative Art Conference | This is an annual conference on all aspects of Generative Art. This website contains link to papers delivered at past conferences. Too much! One will never get through the interesting stuff! |
| Computer Arts Society | A specialist group of the British Computer Society. |