[Maths-Education] Maths-Art seminars at London Knowledge Lab, 11 October: Taneli Luotoniemi, 'Towards a three-dimensional knot ornamentation'

[Phillip Kent]

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TOWARDS A THREE-DIMENSIONAL KNOT ORNAMENTATION

An LKL Maths-Art Seminar
by Taneli Luotoniemi
Thursday 11 October 2012, 6.00 - 7.30pm 

The geometric rosette pattern drawn with a compass can be used as a
template to construct a variety of rotationally symmetric, alternating
and closed knot ornaments in two dimensions. Applying this method to the
third dimension brings forth new challenges: what is the
three-dimensional analogue for the rosette pattern, how to achieve
rotational symmetry in 3-D, and what kind of object may be knotted in an
ornament of higher dimensions? Answering these questions prompts the
artist to take some steps into the domains of geometry and topology.

TANELI LUOTONIEMI is a doctoral student of art, and a teacher of
descriptive geometry, at the Aalto University School of Art, Design and
Architecture in Helsinki. His research investigates the interlacing of
the artistic and the mathematical, with a focus on his own construction
of geometric knot ornaments.

Next seminars: 8 November, Adam Ockelford, "Zygonic theory: a new
approach to music analysis"; 13 December, Pre-Xmas Mathematics and Art
"Hands On"

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Dr Phillip Kent, London Knowledge Lab
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Dr Phillip Kent, London, UK
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phillip.kent at gmail.com  mobile: 07950 952034
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