Pete's Blog

CAD at ICERM's Illustrating Dynamics and Proba...

We had a great experience in November 2019 at ICERM, meeting and collaborating with other artists, mathematicians, and craftspeople. Below is the landing page we used.... Cherry Arbor Design was...

Can you cut a rectangle into different sized sq...

Consider that innocent sounding question. Give it a try, then come back... This turns out to be remarkably difficult. It is even more difficult if the rectangle you are cutting up...

Cipra City: a map on a Donut

We've been captivated by the Cipra Loops tiles, and we've added another Barry Cipra invention to our lineup. Cipra has again found inspiration in the work of Sol Lewitt, who often...

Koch Snowflakes

The Koch snowflake is one of the first fractal curves to be described. Like other fractal curves, it has an infinitely long boundary, and the self-similarity is obvious as you...

Fibonacci, Sunflowers, Voronoi, and a Clock

Fibonacci's famous sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, ...) has been linked to many natural phenomena. The arrangement of seeds in sunflowers is one...

Here be Dragons!

Whenever we are showing at art and craft fairs, people of all ages love playing with the Koch tilings. I think the appeal is that like many fractals, they evoke...