<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d229464f-668f-4d07-aade-2748b748d360/4C3367D8-FCD0-450E-A4DE-5578BCA1CFFD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencenews.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><DIV class="topic content_description print"> When art and math collide </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><P>Mathematics is beautiful: intellectually elegant, exquisitely austere and pretty. Yes, pretty. Like, pretty to look at.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><P>That aesthetic beauty was easy to see at the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C., January 5–8, which showcased mathematics research and also invited artists and mathematicians to come together to create a display of mathematical art.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sciencenews.org/img/F549BF40-6BAD-4004-9E71-2E5CD4900174" alt="access" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><DIV class="inset_text print"><DIV class="embiggen"><A href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/id/40024/title/mtrek_swarm.jpg">Enlarge</A><IMG src="http://www.sciencenews.org/includes/com.confluentforms.codefluent.php/images/icons/grayscale-small/magnify.gif" class="icon" alt="magnify" /></DIV><SPAN class="print">SWARMING PENTAPLEX</SPAN><SPAN class="description print">The center of this painting is a Penrose tiling.</SPAN><SPAN class="credit print">Paul Stacy www.pdstacy.com</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><A href="http://www.pdstacy.com" target="_blank">Paul Stacy</A>, an Australian landscape architect, got seduced by the beauty of math</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide">Put together according to certain rules, they form patterns that never, ever repeat, no matter how far you extend them. Even more surprisingly, they have five-fold rotational symmetry, so you can turn the whole pattern 72 degrees and it will look exactly the same.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4C3367D8-FCD0-450E-A4DE-5578BCA1CFFD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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