Noctilucent Clouds

Noctilucent Clouds by Rebecca Smith. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, 2017.

Photo by I. Peterson

Drop Distortions

Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, 2013.

Photos by I. Peterson

Hexagonal Wrap

Hexagonal Wrap (Eulerian Cycle on an Octahedron) by Thomas C. Hull. Displayed at the Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, California, 2008.

See also "Pleated Cone" and "Folding Math."

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Kachina Symbolism

Kachina Symbolism IV by Dan Namingha. Santa Fe Botanical Garden, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2017.

Photo by I. Peterson

Snow Bank

Kingston, Ontario, 1974.

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The Six Crystals

The Six Crystals by Philip Larson. Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2010.

Photo by I. Peterson

Heavy Lifting

Spring City, Tennessee, 2014.

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Ellipsoid Hyperboloid

Plaster model of confocal ellipsoid and one-sheet hyperboloid. Mathematics Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 2012.

See also "Plaster Models of Mathematical Surfaces."

Photo by I. Peterson

Torus with Cross-Cap

Torus with Cross-Cap and Vector Field II by Helaman Ferguson. Collection of the artist.

See also "Umbilic Torus, Writ Large," "Four Canoes," "Hyperbolic Quilt," "Fractal Drum," "Eightfold Way," and "Double Torus Stonehenge."

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Light Up

Light Up by Tony Smith. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2008.

Photos by I. Peterson

Meandering Ribbon

Pax Mundi by Brent Collins.

See also "Flowery Sculptural Twists" and "Costa Surface in Bronze."

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Saurien

Saurien by Alexander Calder. New York City, 2011.

See also "Black Planes"and "The Big Sail."

Photo by I. Peterson

Natural Cycles

Natural Cycles by Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine. Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, California, 2010.

Photo by I. Peterson

Beaded Rainbow Mandala

Rainbow Mandala by Laura Shea. Displayed at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, 2007.

See also "Beadwork Triangles" and "Mathematical Knitting Network."

Photos by I. Peterson

Amor

AMOR by Robert Indiana. Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2017.

See also "Love in Red and Blue."

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Vapor Stroll

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1977.

Photo by I. Peterson

Sea Cave

South Coast, Australia, 1980.

Photo by I. Peterson

Stargazer Buoy

Miraestels by Robert Llimos. Barcelona, 2007.

Photo by I. Peterson

TV Man

TV Man or Five-Piece Cube with Strange Hole by David Bakalar. Massachusetts  Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2011.

Photo by I. Peterson

Fractal Tree Symmetry

Mitered Fractal Tree II by Koos Verhoeff, Tom Verhoeff, and Anton Bakker. Displayed at Bridges 2012, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, 2012.

See also "Fractal Tree in Bronze."

Photo by I. Peterson

Devils Postpile

Devils Postpile National Monument, California, 1984.

Photos by I. Peterson

Liquid Silver

Lake MacDonald, Quebec, 2009.

Photo by I. Peterson

Way Out

Washington, D.C., 1981.

Photo by I. Peterson

Gargoyle Pig

Melrose Abbey, Scotland, 1975.

Gargoyle of a pig playing the bagpipes.

Photos by I. Peterson

Mountain Walk

Georgia, 2012.

Photo by I. Peterson

Urn Growth

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., 2018.

Photo by I. Peterson

Four Pillars

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., 2018.

Photo by I. Peterson

Carpet Perspective

National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., 2018.

Photos by I. Peterson