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| Chiral Quartet by George W. Hart
"This is an installation which I called Chiral Quartet, which I did for the show 2000 A.D. at the Vanderbilt museum in Centerport, NY, November 1997 - January 1998. It includes a number of pieces, all with chiral icosahedral symmetry. Despite their very different surface appearances, they share an underlying mathematical commonality.
From the top, clockwise, they are Battered Moonlight, a rhombic enneacontahedron, I'd like to make one thing perfectly clear, and a tensegrity structure made from coffee stirrers. The rhombic enneacontahedron at right has a different coloring than my take-apart sculpture. "
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Click here for a complete list of events.
BRIDGES DONOSTIA: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture. Donostia (San Sebastian) Spain, July 23-27, 2007.
___Bridges Planning Discussion
SIGMAA-ARTS: The Mathematical Association of America's special interest group for Mathematics will both meet and have an exhibit at the MAA's MathFest meeting, San Jose, CA August 3 - 5, 2007.
___MathFest Planning Discussion
Nexus V11 2008, Relationships between Architecture and Mathematics, June, 2008.
___Nexus Planning Discussion
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