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UCB DeCal, September 17, 2013

UCB DeCal, September 17, 2013. Art & Science. Carlo H. Séquin University of California, Berkeley. SCIENCE. MATH. ART. DESIGN. What came first: Art or Mathematics ?. Question posed Nov. 16, 2006 by Dr. Ivan Sutherland “ father ” of computer graphics ( SKETCHPAD , 1963).

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UCB DeCal, September 17, 2013

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  1. UCB DeCal, September 17, 2013 Art & Science Carlo H. Séquin University of California, Berkeley

  2. SCIENCE MATH ART DESIGN

  3. What came first: Art or Mathematics ? • Question posed Nov. 16, 2006 by Dr. Ivan Sutherland“father” of computer graphics (SKETCHPAD, 1963).

  4. Early “Free-Form” Art Cave paintings, Lascaux Venus von Willendorf

  5. Regular, Geometric Art • Early art: Patterns on bones, pots, weavings... • Mathematics (geometry) to help make things fit:

  6. Another Question: What came first: Art or Science? What is Art ? -- What do artists do ? What is Science ? -- What do scientists do ?

  7. What is the Difference . . .between Art and Design ?

  8. Art? -- or Design? -- or What?

  9. Art? -- or Design? -- or What?

  10. Unfinished Construction Site ?

  11. Clearly Something Special . . . Art? or Design?

  12. Art or Wallpaper ?

  13. Art? -- or Design? -- or What?

  14. Another Mysterious Object • Propeller for a submarin ? • Grinder head for tunnel boring ? • Galactic force concentrator ?

  15. My Background: Geometry ! • Descriptive Geometry – love since high school

  16. Descriptive Geometry

  17. 40 Years of Geometry and Design CCD TV Camera Soda Hall RISC 1 Computer Chip Octa-Gear (Cyberbuild)

  18. More Recent Creations

  19. Aurora Sculptures Inspired by the curtain- or ribbon-like Northern Lights

  20. Torus-Knot_5,3 Inspired by a well defined type of mathematical knot Torus-Knot_3,5

  21. A Special Result

  22. The Process: (For Scherk-Collins Toroids) InspirationalModel GenerativeParadigm ComputerProgram Many NewModels Insight,Analysis Math,Geometry Selection,Design

  23. Scherk-Collins Toroids Collaboration with sculptor Brent Collins: • “Hyperbolic Hexagon” 1994 • “Hyperbolic Hexagon II”, 1996 • “Heptoroid”, 1998

  24. Brent Collins: Hyperbolic Hexagon

  25. Scherk’s 2nd Minimal Surface 2 planes the central core 4 planesbi-ped saddles 4-way saddles = “Scherk tower”

  26. Scherk’s 2nd Minimal Surface Normal “biped” saddles Generalization to higher-order saddles(monkey saddle) “Scherk Tower”

  27. V-art(1999) VirtualGlassScherkTowerwith MonkeySaddles(Radiance 40 hours) Jane Yen

  28. Closing the Loop straight or twisted “Scherk Tower” “Scherk-Collins Toroids”

  29. Sculpture Generator 1, GUI

  30. Shapes from Sculpture Generator 1

  31. Inauguration Sutardja Dai Hall 2/27/09

  32. The Finished Heptoroid • at Fermi Lab Art Gallery (1998).

  33. 2003: “Whirled White Web”

  34. 12:40 pm -- 42° F

  35. 12:41 pm -- 42° F

  36. “WWW” Wins Silver Medal

  37. Brent Collins and David Lynn

  38. Sculpture Generator #2

  39. Tentative Assembly of Three Units

  40. Yet Another Medium: Stone “The Three Pillars of Engineering”Math – Materials – Physics(Science)Sponsored by Paul Suciu (EECS alum)

  41. Spring, 2012

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