Paula Beardell Krieg
@paulakrieg.bsky.social
Happy to share art and math play
...the is known. It includes 60 and 90 degree angles,and two edges that are twice as long as two other edges. The result is a shape that plays nicely with other pattern blocks.
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
...the is known. It includes 60 and 90 degree angles,and two edges that are twice as long as two other edges. The result is a shape that plays nicely with other pattern blocks.
I've been making paper constructions of pattern blocks, then decided to add some extra ones to the traditional set. I'm particularly proud of this irregular pentagon. Even though I worked this out according to my own agenda, it's characteristics are so cool that I have no doubt that it's a shape +
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I've been making paper constructions of pattern blocks, then decided to add some extra ones to the traditional set. I'm particularly proud of this irregular pentagon. Even though I worked this out according to my own agenda, it's characteristics are so cool that I have no doubt that it's a shape +
Designed and taught a workshop based on constructing and decorating pattern blocks. Decided to include a few extra pieces, like the pentagon and irregular pentagon. Prior to decorating, oved howdelighted people were when I pointed out the relationship between stars and any five sided shape.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Designed and taught a workshop based on constructing and decorating pattern blocks. Decided to include a few extra pieces, like the pentagon and irregular pentagon. Prior to decorating, oved howdelighted people were when I pointed out the relationship between stars and any five sided shape.
Been teaching a flurry of polyhedron-related classes to artists, revisiting some favorite forms, like chiral boxes with deep diagonal pockets that @simon-gregg.bsky.social pointed me towards years ago, and the Liu Hiu solids via Jen Silverman www.jensilvermath.com/presentation... #mathart #mtobs
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Been teaching a flurry of polyhedron-related classes to artists, revisiting some favorite forms, like chiral boxes with deep diagonal pockets that @simon-gregg.bsky.social pointed me towards years ago, and the Liu Hiu solids via Jen Silverman www.jensilvermath.com/presentation... #mathart #mtobs
Something else to do with a cube.
Done with 300lb watercolor paper. Thinking outside and inside the box.
Done with 300lb watercolor paper. Thinking outside and inside the box.
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Something else to do with a cube.
Done with 300lb watercolor paper. Thinking outside and inside the box.
Done with 300lb watercolor paper. Thinking outside and inside the box.
Can't you just give them your whole math twitter posts from the good old days and let them experience your awesomeness up close?
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Can't you just give them your whole math twitter posts from the good old days and let them experience your awesomeness up close?
I especially liked the last two paragraphs of this article. Thanks for posting.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I especially liked the last two paragraphs of this article. Thanks for posting.
Lately I've been up to my ears in pattern block inspired forms. Been enlarging them for boxes, using their interior spaces & fractally decorating. The Jaffe Center has slipped me into their November schedule to teach a one session evening class with these forms.
jaffecollection.org/workshops/fr...
jaffecollection.org/workshops/fr...
October 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Lately I've been up to my ears in pattern block inspired forms. Been enlarging them for boxes, using their interior spaces & fractally decorating. The Jaffe Center has slipped me into their November schedule to teach a one session evening class with these forms.
jaffecollection.org/workshops/fr...
jaffecollection.org/workshops/fr...
Is there any reason we would even believe anything that they call evidence?
September 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Is there any reason we would even believe anything that they call evidence?
We had our first brush with an autumn frost just last night. Suspecting it would be so, I took some photos of some end of season blooms. Glad to have these.
September 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
We had our first brush with an autumn frost just last night. Suspecting it would be so, I took some photos of some end of season blooms. Glad to have these.
What a fun idea!
Also, tangrams made from folded paper have a satisfying feel to them youtu.be/-QCQgWn6K1k?...
Also, tangrams made from folded paper have a satisfying feel to them youtu.be/-QCQgWn6K1k?...
September 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What a fun idea!
Also, tangrams made from folded paper have a satisfying feel to them youtu.be/-QCQgWn6K1k?...
Also, tangrams made from folded paper have a satisfying feel to them youtu.be/-QCQgWn6K1k?...
I want to know, do you make a plan so that he can stay on your lap for hours? Do you read, nap, text?
September 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I want to know, do you make a plan so that he can stay on your lap for hours? Do you read, nap, text?
Doing geometric constructions is something else to think about. Here’s a super fun one inspired by a post by @mpershan.bsky.social youtu.be/xKMU36RrTYk?...
Double Bubbles with compass and straight edge, a very cool drawing lesson
YouTube video by Paula B Krieg
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September 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Doing geometric constructions is something else to think about. Here’s a super fun one inspired by a post by @mpershan.bsky.social youtu.be/xKMU36RrTYk?...
Sam, if you want to chat I have soooo many projects I could talk to you about. A big part of what I do these days is work with artists on creating solid forms. also, have written many posts that are math/art. Heres a good one about building solid forms
bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/m...
bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/m...
Making Blocks from Paper
There’s a rabbit hole of of making 3D shapes that I’ve stumbled into… This week I have the good fortune of being able to talk to people, via zoom, at the German Mathematical Socie…
bookzoompa.wordpress.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Sam, if you want to chat I have soooo many projects I could talk to you about. A big part of what I do these days is work with artists on creating solid forms. also, have written many posts that are math/art. Heres a good one about building solid forms
bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/m...
bookzoompa.wordpress.com/2021/09/26/m...
September 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Been working on some fun cubes this week. Taking patterns I've created then using them on cubes that are sliced in ways that allow them to interact. Because the patterns I make are inspired by so many different sources I think of them as Diversity Cubes. Nice box too.
#mathart
#patterns
#cubes
#mathart
#patterns
#cubes
August 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Oh love seeing a photo of Mr and Mrs Triangle!
August 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh love seeing a photo of Mr and Mrs Triangle!
By the way, I'm enjoying the ALT text feature of Bluesky. It lets me play around with descriptions.
I keep forgetting to use good hash tags. This one should have probably been tagged as #mathart and #geometry. I've never been much good at hashtags. Would appreciate any advice.
I keep forgetting to use good hash tags. This one should have probably been tagged as #mathart and #geometry. I've never been much good at hashtags. Would appreciate any advice.
August 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Another way to fill the rhombic dodecahedron happens to be the convex hull of a compound of an octahedron cube.
#convexhull
#polyhedron
#compoundpolyhedra
#rhombicdodecahedron
#cube
#octahedron
#convexhull
#polyhedron
#compoundpolyhedra
#rhombicdodecahedron
#cube
#octahedron
August 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Another way to fill the rhombic dodecahedron happens to be the convex hull of a compound of an octahedron cube.
#convexhull
#polyhedron
#compoundpolyhedra
#rhombicdodecahedron
#cube
#octahedron
#convexhull
#polyhedron
#compoundpolyhedra
#rhombicdodecahedron
#cube
#octahedron
Doing it the way you’ve done it shows up the tension between math and material: the thickness of the paper, which is slight, still makes the last folded unit fit imprecisely.
August 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Doing it the way you’ve done it shows up the tension between math and material: the thickness of the paper, which is slight, still makes the last folded unit fit imprecisely.
Nice! I’m going back through some twitter archives and am seeing rhombic dodecahedron things going on around then… I missed mic of it at the time, as I think I just starting to get to know you all.
August 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Nice! I’m going back through some twitter archives and am seeing rhombic dodecahedron things going on around then… I missed mic of it at the time, as I think I just starting to get to know you all.