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Sophia (she/her)
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Math-obsessed perpetual asker of why. Random task penguin. Life thoughts are often in haiku. (She/her)
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#genuary10 Prompt: Polar Coordinates

I coded my hyperspherical Tesselations using Polar coordinates of course.

#genuary2026 #GENUARY
January 10, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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#Genuary26 #genuary #processing #p5js

Polar coordinates + automata:

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and I also did City + boolean algebra together here:

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Genuary Day 9 + Day 10
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January 10, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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My child played with blender and otters (he is 15)

strangeotter.com

He articulated an otter, then another, then another, then made a rocket, then launched them into space.

(website made with keynote, then brought to html/css/java)

#blender #space #otters #shortFilm #STEM
Strange Otter
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January 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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added a draft of a compass + paint toy today and played with it.

inquiries.link/tools/geomet...

#mathart #mtbos
tan and slate circle of life construction with added circles and shading so that there is a crescent moon and flower painted tan, with tan lines and slate for the rest of the drawing. tan and slate circle of life construction with added circles and shading so that there is a crescent moon and flower painted tan, with slate lines and slate for the rest of the drawing. This one there are lines though the lune. A geometric construction with a lune inside many circles and a flower at the center. the lines are tan with blue shading elsewhere a lune and a flower with some lines indicating remnants of its construction. the curve lines are blue and match the background and the lune and flower are tan.
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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Finished a post today on chords. It would be really easy to keep going and make a Monte Carlo for random chords, rotations of connected shapes, moire strings, shadow art with strings, etc.

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#mtbos #mathart #stringart #decemberAdventure #indieweb
Inquiries-Week 6: Beautiful Chords
Introduction In this inquiry, we explore chords, which are lines drawn across circles, using different rules to create various patterns, curves, and shapes. This inquiry will be different from those ...
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December 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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#playfulmath carnival 183! mathhombre.blogspot.com/2025/12/play... Writing on teaching, fun math, puzzles, games, art...
Playful Math Carnival 183
Welcome to the 183rd edition of the Playful Math Carnival. Begun by Denise Gaskins, previously known as Math Teachers at Play. If you'd be i...
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December 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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2025 solstice-to-solstice experiment is summarized! It could be prettier, but I am done for now.

highlights: 212 species of birds, 2200+km on foot, and lots of "potatoes" in the noted thoughts.

www.streamof.me

#experimentalJournal #indieweb #birding #birdData #mathOfMe #localfirst
stream of me — a year in reflection
A year-long experimental journal tracking daily walks, bird observations, and reflections from 12/22/24 to 12/21/25.
www.streamof.me
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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planning baking for holiday cookie tins, asking questions like: if i make lemon curd x days in advance, i need to make y extra cups of it to still end up with ½ cup for cookies on the 24th. thank goodness i took multivariable calculus
December 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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YEAAH GENUARY 2026⋆˚꩜.ᐟ.ᐟ genuary.art

GENUARY is the most GENERATIVE (creative code based) ART month of the entire universe // There are 31 creative coding prompts for you to play with for daily challenge // beepboop // please enjoy // time travelers welcome

#genartclub #generative #creativecoding
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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postcard plotting started:
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Genuary Prompts are out!!

genuary.art/prompts

I can't wait to see everyone's art and start playing.

#genuary #genuary2026
PROMPTS – GENUARY
GENUARY is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things.
genuary.art
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Today's #decemberAdventure

More blocks, ported over half-square hilberts to the svelte site, went to an #indieWeb event in the morning.

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December Adventure Log
December Adventure was started by Eli_oat at Oatmeal. I love seeing what others do this month - here is a log of logs. This December, I plan to make a generative quilt, play with origami, doodle some...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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I started my #decemberAdventure!

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December Adventure Log
December Adventure was started by Eli_oat at Oatmeal. I love seeing what others do this month - here is a log of logs. This December, I plan to make a generative quilt, play with origami, doodle some...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A collatz creature code doodle at the end of a busy week:

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Collatz Creature
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November 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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National Math Stars has posted a position for their Pathfinder program.

I enjoy working with this lovely group of people and mentoring Stars.

#mtbos

nationalmathstars.org/careers/
National Math Stars - Careers
Want to work for National Math Stars? Check out our open roles!
nationalmathstars.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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My friend needed a friend

#mathart
Origami fabric icosahedronand octahedron side-by side with turquoise purple and blue fabrics on a cutting mat
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Batik sonobe today

#fiberart #origami #batik #mathart
Purple greens and turquoise fabrics, folded into an octahedra with rocks in the background this angle shows a non-symmetrical view. A fabric octahedron with purple, turquoise and green fabric on river rock with one of the points visible as a triangle. Purple greens and turquoise fabrics, folded into an octahedra with rocks in the background this angle shows a non-symmetrical view.
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Played with Desmos Complex Plane today

www.desmos.com/calculator/y...

#desmos
Triangle Property
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November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Still time to join the Granny Life community math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com !

My job is assembly, so today I am learning about braided fishing wire and how to tie fishing nets. Hoping to incorporate a strong net grid into the project. It's going to weigh about 15-20 pounds!
Granny Life Community Build Project
Granny Life
www.grannylifecrochet.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I composed an OP-1 track and wrote a coded poem:

www.fractalkitty.com/somewhere-he...

#codedPoem #op1 #poetry #creativeCoding #cleanCode #proceduralArt #music #Synths

Thanks @r.whal.ing for the encouragement.
somewhere here
A coded poem and track The Track: Initiated on a piano, and realized on an OP-1 Field. somewhere here0:00/101.302857142857151× The Visual: Clean coded in p5js with p5sound - enjoy in fullscreen...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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@fractalkitty.com and @susanmyrland.bsky.social !
jerthorp.bsky.social Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · Nov 4
It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A new inquiry activity is posted on Fractal Kitty!

www.fractalkitty.com/inquiries-we...

This one plays with graphs and can be used as an extension to Sim, Don't Make a Triangle, and other such games.

#mtbos #iteachmath #mathplay #accessibleProofs #inquiry #turan #graphTheory #triangles
Inquiries-Week 5: Triangles Emerge
Introduction In this inquiry, nodes are connected one at a time. How many lines can you draw before a triangle emerges? Starting with Four Let's start with four nodes - draw them on a sheet of pap...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Mathober in this weeks CodePen Spark! It was a really fun month of math doodles.

codepen.io/spark/480

@codepen.io

#mathober #mathober2025
CodePen
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November 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Once we ran out of candy - which was way faster than expected, I'd say 9 out of 10 trick-or-treaters were elated to have origami paper. The rest were happy with rocks. One group needed to see a noperthedron

There was an occasional fidget toy or math toy coming of the printer that went out as well
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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#mathober Day 31: central. Led me to central dilation which led to #spiral similarity which led to #geogebra... www.geogebra.org/m/wcqcuq3s
Spiral Dilation
Exploring spiral dilations
www.geogebra.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM