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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Definitely worthwhile checking out the mathemagic that @gelada.bsky.social achieves with a CNC machine. Good stuff!

Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking forward to seeing the progress. Ever since we published our work on 3D Chladni patterns at Bridges 2016, I really want to build a physical system to create those. One day, I'll do it.

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Philipp Wacker @phkwacker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

@visualpde.com Is such an awesome website. Explaining geometric Brownian motion in a lecture tomorrow, and this tool here will help me illustrate the corresponding forward Kolmogorov equation: visualpde.com/sim?mini=JOD...

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Interactive simulation | VisualPDE

An interactive simulation of a partial differential equation, live in your browser with VisualPDE.

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Jacob Joaquin @jacobjoaquin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Untitled Ink on paper, 9"x9" #p5 #plotter #mathart

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Henry Segerman @henryseg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New paper on (among other things) generating Cannon-Thurston maps from veering triangulations, joint work with Jason Manning and Saul Schleimer. arxiv.org/abs/2609.14598. We also made lots of pictures of these space-filling curves, available at math.okstate.edu/people/seger...

A sphere patterned by two different space-filling curves, one drawn as a black line and one as the boundary between green and purple regions.

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Open Position for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Visual Analytics: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-As.... Apply if you are excited about interactive exploration, analysis, and interpretation of complex data. Please also forward this position to anyone in your network who is interested.

careers.tudelft.nl

Assistant/Associate Professor in Visual Analytics

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We went there after Bridges for my birthday. A nice picture with me is on the wife's phone, but it's a cool #math pilgrimage place 😁

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

careers.tudelft.nl

Assistant/Associate Professor in Visual Analytics

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It took more than 3,000 emails, close to 80 hours of work, and turned further hairs white, but it is great to finally hold the printed proceedings from this year's Bridges #Mathart conference in hand! Kudos to Eve Torrence (managing editor), the other editors, and the authors!

Cover page of the
"Bridges Galway 2026
Mathematics and the Arts
Conference Proceedings"
edited by Martin Skrodzki, Kerry Mitchell, Katherine Seaton, and Eve Torrence

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's your list of prompts for creating #MathArt throughout October. Happy #MathOber and looking forward to some beautiful #Art.

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Matt Zucker @mattz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This fall I am co-teaching a brand-new class – ENGR 009: Fabricating Tessellations and Tilings. It's roughly equal parts math and design, filtered thru an engineering perspective. The syllabus and all assignments are freely available to the public at mzucker.github.io/e9_f2026/

A hexagonal tile with a chamfered edge and an interacting sawtooth pattern.

A 9-triangle polyiamond shown tiling with symmetries *x, 22x, 632, 22x (again), and 2222.

A snippet of decorative tiles from the Alhambra.

GRT Architects "flutes and reeds" tile system

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José Ángel Iranzo @ja-iranzo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Último artículo publicado. Me hace especial ilusión porque trata de combinar Matemáticas y Arte. El objetivo era encajar piezas de Tetris para representar imágenes conocidas. Making mosaics from Tetris® tiles t.co/HtJSt6dzKj

Rostro de la Mona Lisa, de Leonardo da Vinci, representado en escala de grises mediante piezas de Tetris.

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Marcello Seri @mseri.me · 09/09/2026

This surface visualizer is super cool: e-infinity.space/picture-book/ Ping @msmathcomp.bsky.social

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A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That is great indeed. Thank you for sharing!

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Daniel Wilson @helsig.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Meandering toroid. #MathArt

Closed loop. A single line that forms large coils and tiny coils. Inspired by equations for a toroid. Math art created in Excel.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 08/09/2026

Now ready for you to enjoy: e-infinity.space/picture-book/ #MathArt #MathSky

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Any mapping is necessarily a kind of flattening, distortions happen, information lost. "Not even the most expansive mapping can convey everything" or, to quote Alfred Korzybski, "the map is not the territory"

excerpt from a page in Unflattening - upper part shows the globe encircled (like the Daily Planet) with the letters Circumnavigation. this casts a shadow on a flat map - the mercator project of the globe. Discussion of the distortions that happen when you go from 3 dimensions to two - information lost and connections severed. Below this is a similar arrangement, an icosahedron instead of a globe, and then a map made by unfolding that icosahedron. This is Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion map. It preserves area in ways the mercator could not, and it also shows connections where the mercator showed divisions. That said, it's not super clear for how you travel across the globe...

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They actually say modulus, but journalists dumb it down. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/imagin... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

3-panel SMBC comic update. A man wearing glasses stands at a podium, declaring: "at last we've overthrown the economists! From now on the nation's finances shall be run by mathematicians!" Shortly after, the same mathematician declares: "as of today, money will be denominated in complex numbers. The public's long wait for an algebraically closed currency is at an end!" The next panel shows a news article headline: "ECONOMY CRASHES - Nation's money accidentally rotated 90 degrees, now imaginary. Mathematicians (quoted): "calm down, absolute value unchanged."

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Henry Segerman @henryseg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New video on hyperboloids made out of sticks: why and how they move, with Sabetta Matsumoto, Tim Reinhardt, Jürgen Richter-Gebert, and me, at youtu.be/CJCL92W8Z9w

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This turned out really well! Congratulations and thank you for posting through the process.

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Fractal Kitty @fractalkitty.com · 27/08/2026

I'm going to run a group - Painting the OEIS. Please share your favorite sequences and why. I'll share what art I do with any of them. #oeis #mtbos #mathArt

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I feel people who claim that this "ready" exists are gaslighting us.

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Katherine Seaton @mathskath.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Latest royalty statement shows there are another 69 copies of A Stitch in Line out in the world, in people's hands. Thank you so much, and happy stitching!

Book cover image, against a splash of water colour paint in shades of blue.

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Henry Segerman @henryseg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

MoMath will host a free online event on Friday, Aug 28 at 12:00pm US Eastern time premiering a new video by Sabetta Matsumoto, Tim Reinhardt, Jürgen Richter-Gebert, and me, on hyperboloids made out of sticks and how they move. Details and registration at momath.org/hyperboloids/

A hyperboloid of one sheet made out of wooden skewers next to Mae West, an enormous sculpture of a hyperboloid of one sheet in Munich. Next to the wooden skewers hyperboloid is written “This one doesn’t exist”.

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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 24/08/2026

More New Data Art! ✨ I got to visualize a private equity firm's data as a piece of art. I can't divulge more about the what and how, but I hope you can simply enjoy how it looks ;) It's basically built of from ±15 million tiny dots. 👉 www.visualcinnamon.com/art/rays/

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Probably the equivalent of one and a half chicken 🐔🍗

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 22/08/2026

Filling Space

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thanks! Sure! Here’s a short video.

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Susan Goldstine @sgoldstine.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits #mathart 🧵 After I broke into two-color brioche, I had a brainwave that I could do this really cool thing as a knit #cowl. It was two years before I finally made my first try, shown here. Explanation and photos to follow; keep an eye on main and background colors. 🌈 🧶 #knitsky

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wow 900 followers interested in #illustratingMath and #MathArt. Thank you all for following and engaging! 🙏

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Hamish Todd @hamishtodd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Doing a stream for the first time in a while! www.twitch.tv/hamish_todd/ join if you like conformal geometry :)

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Hamish_Todd - Live on Twitch

Game and Graphics Programming with Geometric Algebra

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Looking forward to seeing you there. Hopefully with a host of other @tmip.bsky.social members!

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy Birthday 🎂 I thoroughly enjoyed your talk at the Bridges Conference. It was a great blend of mathematics, arts, and storytelling. Both entertaining and educational from start to finish.

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My wife points out patterns to me by now, usually with a "You like this, right?" 😅

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 15/08/2026

Game of Life on Penrose tiles

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Clare Moriarty @quiteclare.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I had an amazing time at my first Math Bridges conference in University of Galway last week. There was a planar modular origami workshop, another on the calculus of cat's cradle, a maths-fashion show, an Irish dancing lesson with numerical emphasis, and a family day full of activities for young ppl

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Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

How nice! I am very pleased to announce that I have been awarded the Alternative Fields Medal award in the category of "Excellence in exposition of mathematics to a popular audience", in recognition of my books and my MathOverflow contributions. esander1789.github.io/afm/

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The Alternative Fields Medals

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Aren't they?! I especially enjoyed playing with the different models of the hyperbolic plane and seeing which illusions work better or worse.

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You're thinking of Dave Swart's"Arcs on Spheres and Snakes on Planes" (archive.bridgesmathart.org/2024/bridges...) 🐍

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

At family day at Bridges I volunteered to help Nick Sayers with his giant pantograph. Trace the outline of the person, and a small copy is drawn by the pen. It was fun for kids and adults of all ages. Here is @ayliean.bsky.social as a model and an artist.

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robertfathauer.bsky.social @robertfathauer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Some fiber art in the the art exhibition at the Bridges Conference in Galway, Ireland

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The last talk for today is by Fahreddin Basegmez, who tells us about "Symmetries of Prime Factors." (archive.bridgesmathart.org/2026/bridges...) He presents a fascinating zoo of intricate #MathArt shape assemblies. (3/3)

A slide linking to https://simetri-graphics.github.io/simetri/ with 16 examples below.

A slide labeled "Larger Radii" with two star-shaped examples.

A slide titled "35 is a Very Special Number" with 35 heart shapes arranged in a circular pattern.

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Next, Loe Feijs tells us about "Visual Representation of Inhibition for Phyllotaxis." (archive.bridgesmathart.org/2026/bridges...) A fascinating journey, starting from Fibonacci Numbers and sunflower shapes, taking us all the way to the "Inhibiscus" shape. (2/3)

A flower-like shape with petals in different tints of red, labelled "Inhibiscus."

A comparison of two "Inhibiscus" shapes, one "golden", one "non-golden."

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The second session in the afternoon at the Bridges #MathArt conference starts with Tuan Dung Do, who speaks about "Visual Illusions in the Hyperbolic Plane." (archive.bridgesmathart.org/2026/bridges...) Some illusions might work better with their tool: cs.uwaterloo.ca/~bdo/project... (1/3)

An extension of the Hermann Grid Illusion to the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane.

An extension of the Scintillating Grid Illusion to the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane.

An extension of the Rotating Snakes Illusion to the Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane.

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Short paper session in the afternoon at the Bridges #MathArt conference has: Marta Kopyt "Math through books", Gary Lester "Art as Math Representation", David Reimann "LEGO to communicate Math", and Chris John "Making Kolam Accessible". Wonderful ideas for playful #MathArt.

Marta Kopyt in front of the title slide of her talk.

Dave Reimann next to a slide showing a LEGO sculpture called "Orderly Tangle" from 2024.

Chris is next to a slide titled "Symmetry: Rotational and Reflective," showing two Kolam illustrations.

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki @msmathcomp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The second plenary #MathArt talk is by Claire Moriarty, who speaks about "Semiotics, Ease, and Elegance: Oliver Byrne’s Elements of Euclid." (archive.bridgesmathart.org/2026/bridges...) It is wonderful to learn about the (historical) background of this famous and richly illustrated book. (2/2)

Claire Moriarty on stage next to her title slide with a triangle from the book she's discussing.

A collection of artworks from Kadinsky, Taeubner-Arp, de Stijl, etc. next to images from Byrne's Elements.

A page from "The Book" illustrating the composition of text and visuals elements.

Three images from the lesser-known "The Young Geometrician" by Byrne.

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