The Beauty of Mathematics
Art and Mathematics
Mathematics, the Language of Nature (and Art?)






Jean-François COLONNA
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Pi Decimals and Brownian Motion :


The 126.646 first digits -base 6- of 'pi' displayed as an 'absolute' tridimensional random walk
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Tridimensional brownian motion
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From Elementary Iterations to Unexpected Behavior :


The Lorenz attractor
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Tridimensional high resolution visualization of the Verhulst dynamics -'Time Ships', a Tribute to Stephen Baxter-
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Iterations in the Complex Plane and Beyond :


A Tribute to Benoît Mandelbrot (1924-2010): tridimensional zoom in on the Mandelbrot set with mapping of the arguments
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A foggy pseudo-quaternionic Mandelbrot set (a 'MandelBulb') -tridimensional cross-section-
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Close-up on a foggy pseudo-quaternionic Mandelbrot set (a 'MandelBulb') -tridimensional cross-section-
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Close-up on a foggy pseudo-quaternionic Mandelbrot set with a 1/O conformal transformation in the octonionic space -tridimensional cross-section-
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Close-up on a foggy pseudo-quaternionic Mandelbrot set with a 1/O conformal transformation in the octonionic space -tridimensional cross-section-
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A pseudo-octonionic Mandelbrot set (a 'MandelBulb') -tridimensional cross-section-
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A pseudo-octonionic Mandelbrot set (a 'MandelBulb') -'children's corner' or 'the consciousness emerging from Mathematics'- -tridimensional cross-section-
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A foggy pseudo-octonionic Julia set ('MandelBulb' like: a 'JuliaBulb') computed with A=(-0.58...,+0.63...,0,0,0,0,0,0) and with a 0 to pi rotation about the X axis -tridimensional cross-section-
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The Menger Sponge, an Infinite Surface and Zero Volume :


The Menger Sponge -iteration 5-
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An amazing cross-section inside the Menger Sponge -iteration 5-
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The erosion of an amazing cross-section inside the Menger Sponge -iteration 5-
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Untitled 0320
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An amazing cross-section inside the Menger Sponge -iteration 5- with a (4xO+1)/(1xO-1) conformal transformation in the octonionic space -tridimensional cross-section-
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Filling Knots :


A Ball described by means of an 'open' 3-foil torus knot -iteration 3-
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A Ball described by means of an 'open' 3-foil torus knot -iteration 4-
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A Tridimensional Hilbert-like Curve defined with {X3(...),Y3(...),Z3(...)} and based on an 'open' 3-foil torus knot -iteration 3-
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Fractal Geometry and Natural Phenomena :


Monument Valley at sunrise
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Botticelli anomaly on the Moon
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Mountains and fog
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Revisiting Geocentrism :


The journey of an Earth-like planet (green) in the Solar System -point of view of the virtual planet-
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Journey to the Planck Scale (Mathematics, an Optical Instrument?) :


Tridimensional representation of quadridimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds -Calabi-Yau manifolds attached to every point of a fractal tridimensional space-
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Tridimensional representation of a quadridimensional Calabi-Yau manifold described by means of 5x5 Bidimensional Hilbert Curves -iteration 5-
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Art and Mathematics :


Fractal Self-Portrait -'Décalcomanie', a Tribute to René Magritte-
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A tribute to Sandro Botticelli and Victor Vasarely-
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Quadruple impossible staircase built by means of a paradoxal structure -a Tribute to Maurits Cornelis Escher-
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Untitled 0155 -a Tribute to Yves Tanguy-
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Dissonance chaude/Dissonance froide -a Tribute to Paul Sérusier-
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Untitled 0305
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The Mathematics are the key of the Multiverse
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