DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmic Mathematical Art: Special Cases and Their Applications

May 11 - 13, 2009
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University, kalantari at cs.rutgers.edu

Helaman Ferguson Helasculpt.com, helamanf at helasculpt.com

Dirk Huylebrouck, Sint Lucas (Brussels), dirk.huylebrouck at architectuur.sintlucas.wenk.be

Radmila Sazdanovic, The George Washington University, radmila@gwmail.gwu.edu

Workshop Program:

Monday, May 11, 2009

 8:15 -  8:50  Breakfast and Registration

 8:50 -  9:00  Welcoming Remarks
               Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director
               Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University

Session 1 (CHAIR: Radmila Sazdanovic)

 9:00 -  9:45  Theorems in Stone and Bronze
               Heleman Ferguson, Helasculpt.com              

 9:45 - 10:15  Is Popularization of Polynomiography Possible?
               Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University

10:15 - 10:45  Architectural Fractals
               Daniel Lordick, Technical University, Dresden, Germany 

10:45 - 11:15  Tea/Coffee Break

Session 2  (CHAIR: Bahman Kalantari)            

11:15 - 12:30  The Way Polynomiography Things Go
               You real-eyes what you in habit
               Ruth Mateus-Berr, Petra Ilias, and Walter Lunzer,
               University of Applied Arts, Vienna
               
12:30 -  2:00 Lunch

Session 3 (CHAIR: Helaman Ferguson)

 2:00 -  2:30  Dissecting and Folding Stacked Geometric Figures
               Greg Frederickson, Purdue University

 2:30 -  3:00  Corpuscle Geometry
               Eva Wohlleben, Artist

 3:00 -  3:30  1001 Images of Mathematics
               Georg Glaeser, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
             
 3:30 -  4:00  Tea/Coffee Break and Student Polynomiography Poster Session

Session 4  (CHAIR: Dirk Huylebrouck)

 4:00 -  4:30  Polynomiography as a Visual Tool: Building Meaning from Images
               Carolyn Maher, Rutgers University, and
               Kevin Merges, Rutgers Preparatory School

 4:30 -  5:00  Media for Play, Expression, Curiosity, and Learning: Mathematics through Polynomiography
               Iraj Kalantari, Western Illinois University

 5:00 -  5:30  Algorithms through the eyes of an educator
               Jean-Marie Dendoncker, Ghent University, Belgium

 5:30 -  6:30  Hands-on activities with Bahman Kalantari and Fedor Andreev in the computer lab.

 6:30          Banquet
 
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

Session 1  (CHAIR: Gunter Weiss)		
 
 9:00 -  9:30  Physics-Based Methods for Modeling Open Surface Fluid Phenomena  
               and Soft Tissue Strains
               Dimitris Metaxas, Rutgers University
 
 9:30 - 10:00  The Fibonacci Series As An Algorithmic Organizing Principle In The Composition Of Figurative Painting
               Christopher Bartlett, Towson University

10:00 - 10:30  Catenary or parabola, who will tell?
               Amadeo Monreal, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, and
               Dirk Huylebrouck, Sint-Lucas School for Architecture, Brussels
            
10:30 - 11:00  Tea/Coffee Break

Session 2  (CHAIR: Georg Glaeser)
 
11:00 - 11:30  Pseudo-randomness in procedural design
               Ken Perlin, New York University
 
11:30 - 12:00  Leonardo's Choice for the Model in Creating the Mystical Image on the Shroud of Turin
               Lillian Schwartz, Visiting Scholar, New York University
 
12:00 - 12:30  Poly-Plodes, Polyhedra that kinematic implode and explode
               Ron Resch, Artist
               
12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 1:30 -  2:00  Hands-on activity with Greg Frederickson

Session 3  (CHAIR: Rinus Roelofs)

 2:00 -  2:30  Illustrator sketches obtained from projecting from 4-space to 2-space
               Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
 
 2:30 -  3:00  Many Spaces in the Same Space
               Tony Robbin, Artist, New York and Gilboa
 
 3:00 -  3:30  Tea/Coffee Break 
 
Session 4  (CHAIR: Jay Kappraff)
 
 3:30 -  4:00  The "Kutachi" Project
               Ted Goranson, Earl Research
 
 4:00 -  4:30  To cut or to knot
               Radmila Sazdanovic, The George Washington University

 4:30          Excursion to Princeton 

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
 
 8:35 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

Session 1  (CHAIR: Doug Dunham)

 9:00 -  9:30  Categories of Algorithmic Aesthetics:
               Obvious < Hidden < Secret < Geometric
               Gunter Weiss, Technical University, Dresden, Germany
         
 9:30 - 10:00  Contemporary Video Game Design: Challenges in Visualization, Interaction and Dynamic Simulation
               Andrew Nealen, Rutgers University

10:00 - 10:30  From Continuous to Fractal: Exploring and Root Finding
               Fedor Andreev, Western Illinois University 

10:30 - 11:00  Tea/Coffee Break

Session 2 (CHAIR: Eva Wohlleben)

11:00 - 11:30  TSPortraits of Knots and Link
               Bob Bosch, Oberlin College

11:30 - 12:00  The Geometry of Music
               Dmitri Tymoczko, Princeton University

12:00 - 12:30  Making Explicit The Implicit Intersections of Art & Science
               Paul Burdick, New England Conservatory of Music, and 
               John Kiehl, Soundtrack Recording Studios, NYC
         
12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 1:30 -  2:00  Hands-on activity with Helaman Ferguson

Session 3  (CHAIR: Bob Bosch)

 2:00 -  2:30  Sculptures and Structures
               Rinus Roelofs, Sculptor, Hengelo, The Netherlands

 2:30 -  3:00  Repeating Hyperbolic Pattern Algorithms - Special Cases
               Doug Dunham, University of Minnesota Duluth

 3:00 -  3:30  Aesthetic Explorations of Algorithmic Space
               Nathan Selikoff, Artist
             
 3:30 -  4:00  Tea/Coffee Break 

Session 4  (CHAIR: Helaman Ferguson)

 4:30 -  5:00  A New Course in the Mathematics of Design
               Jay Kappraff, New Jersey Institute of Technology 

 5:00 -  5:30  Unusual Methods of Mathematical Visualisation
               Dirk Huylebrouck, Sint-Lucas School for Architecture Brussels

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