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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 9h

The Romans left behind over a hundred mysterious bronze dodecahedra, and nobody knows what they were for. I can't solve that, but I can fill one with spirals: 12 pentagons, five corners each, chasing inward. A tiny galaxy on every face. ✨ #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If a disco ball studied geometry. 🪩 A sphere cut into 320 triangles, each one filled with a curve of pursuit: corners chasing corners, all the way in. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Before and after: one is a coloring page, the other is what happens with a little time and a lot of color. 🎨 Choose your petals and rings, then click to see what appears. Print it for quiet coloring time, or color it right on your screen: lifeislinear.davidson.edu/mandala-make...

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Monday pause before the week takes over. Watch one ring turn. Breathe in, breathe out. Then another. A small, endlessly spinning start to your day. #CreativeCoding #MathArt #GenerativeArt #MondayMood

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He painted the stars swirling and the sunflowers blazing. Here he is, made from both. #CreativeCoding #MathArt #GenerativeArt

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This starts closer than the Louvre will ever let you get. How fast do you recognize her as it zooms out? (Or did "Louvre" already give it away?) 🌻 #CreativeCoding #MathArt #GenerativeArt

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Taught the flower to bloom. 🌸 Think of it as a time-lapse: half the day it spins left, half the day it spins right, and in between it rests. Tomorrow it starts all over again. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Grew a flower with zero water and about 600 triangles. 🌸 A pentagon cut into 10 slices, each slice's corners chasing each other inward. Neighbors spin opposite ways, and petals appear on their own. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Update: they're still chasing. 🔥 Same rosette, now animated: 60 pursuit curves winding up from bare outlines and back again, on loop forever. #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone here is chasing someone. Nobody ever catches up. A curve of pursuit: each corner of a shape steps toward its neighbor. 60 little chases in 12 petals, and the glow is just where the lines pile up. inspired by @helsig.bsky.social's posts #generativeart #mathart #creativecoding

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a statement I made in an email I just wrote. I liked it so much I had AI make this.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Mona Lisa, grown the way a sunflower grows its seeds.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Same Great Wave. Entirely different characters. 🌊😎😂🤯 Hokusai's famous painting, reimagined as an emoji mosaic.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Her smile may be mysterious, but the mathematics is right there in the panes. The Mona Lisa, reimagined as mathematical stained glass. #MathArt #MonaLisa

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When two photos become one… Not Photoshop—linear algebra! A linear combination of two image matrices creates something entirely new. #MathArt #LinearAlgebra

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Plot twist: every line in this portrait is a polynomial. Sometimes mathematics reveals the bigger picture—if you’re willing to step back and look. Can you see the hidden image? #MathArt

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This one brings the idea full circle. Look closely: the portrait is made entirely from concentric circles. Create your own mathematical mosaic at: lifeislinear.davidson.edu/circleArt.html #MathArt #MathematicalMosaic

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pleased to have Weighted Voronoi stippling implemented. Cool look!

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: builds an image generator where Tetris pieces fall into place to form a picture Also me: realizes halfway through that the pieces just phase through each other like ghosts Ship it anyway. 👻🧱

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My code plays "Tetris" with your photos — squares that are "close enough" in color just... merge. No falling pieces, no line clears, just an image slowly collapsing into blocks. 🟨🟧🟫

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Adaptive mesh refinement in a mosaic. Got the idea off a wall pattern during a meeting!

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The pattern on a wall during a meeting caught my eye and I had an idea to mesh refine based on variation of the color in a mosaic's tile. Each triangle in this mosaic is a solid color.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Zooming in on a daylily reminds me that complexity often hides in plain sight. Sometimes the most interesting patterns only appear when we look a little closer. #photography

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Sometimes the best photos aren’t about finding the perfect flower. They’re about noticing the conversation happening between two of them. #photography

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This flower clearly skipped the “less is more” design meeting… and I’m all for it. 💜💛 #photography

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fireworks may last a few seconds. Mathematical patterns last forever. I traded fireworks for curve stitching. Different kind of spark...same sense of wonder. 🇺🇸✨ Happy 4th of July weekend. #MathArt

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Zoom in and you see circles. Zoom out and you see a cardioid. Mathematics often rewards changing your point of view. #MathArt

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One algorithm. Infinitely many possibilities. Today's waiting room became a playground for curve stitching. Same program. Different parameters. Endless exploration.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Hoping this keeps the watermelon from turning every curve into an adventure and a melon-dramatic situation.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Cutting our morning bagels into linked rings. Math-y breakfast.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May the force of matrix multiplication be with you. Rotate Yoda with matrix multiplication in Matlab, Mathematica or Maple. I need to prep it in Python! :-) academics.davidson.edu/math/chartie... #MayTheFourth

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A classic math comic in a fun style.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Marvelous Mathemagic with Art Benjamin at @momath.bsky.social on Pi Day. A bit irrational but I wish the show had gone on forever.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Art Benjamin performs at @momath.bsky.social on Pi Day. Look at the length of the performances.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

At @momath.bsky.social may wonders exist at one exhibit. This is all at the same one.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The new @momath.bsky.social is entirely stunning. It’s a living celebration of curiosity, creativity, and the joy of discovering math in motion. Everywhere you turn invites a new way to play with an idea.

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Was watching the Game of Thrones spin-off and saw mathematical designs. Decided to try one. This isn't what I saw but what I made AFTER I made what I saw!

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Went out to eat, saw a pattern on a tapestry, took a picture, and came home and replicated it in python! Gracious!

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

PEMDAS isn’t about memorizing an order—it’s about avoiding chaos. Bob the Counting Sheep gets a visual explanation (with a little help) of why order matters in math. More sketches at Math Figures: www.youtube.com/@mathfigures... #iTeachMath #MathEducation

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

What does it mean to get closer and closer and closer to zero without arriving? In mathematics, approaching can matter—even without arriving. More sketches at Math Figures: www.youtube.com/@mathfigures... #iTeachMath #MathEducation #MathArt

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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Zippy thinks he’s good at math because he’s quick. A second grader shows him where he went wrong. Speed isn’t understanding. Thinking matters. Videos appearing at: www.youtube.com/@mathfigures...

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