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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · 7d

Forgot the hashtag! #MathsAnimationTMiP

Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · 7d

The collaboration is taking a break now until next year, but you can see the playlists for all the prompts at tmip.uk/animation. If you want to submit an entry for any prompts you missed, you're very welcome to do so.

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · 7d

I'm horrifically late posting about this, but the playlist for the August/September Animation Generation Collaboration is now up! The prompt was to create an animation of a Hilbert curve, and there are some lovely ones! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#MathsAnimationTMiP August 2025 - YouTube

The TMiP Animation Generation Collaboration is a community project to create and publish 'process' videos of mathematical animations using a range of differe...

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 12d

Q: What do you get if you cross a mood ring with a pronoun pin?

A: My latest design at canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

Please share!

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Big MathsJam @bigmathsjam.bsky.social · 12d

On the Saturday evening at MathsJam, we gather around the metaphorical campfire with instruments and voices to sing songs that have been reimagined with mathematical lyrics. Find out more, and how to submit lyrics, at mathsjam.com/gatheri...

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Sep 7

Want a cool Nature, #SciArt, or Dropout Pride pin that helps a trans small business? My designs are available at canopyrobin.etsy.com and ship worldwide*

*currently not to the US or Israel

Screenshot of an etsy shop showing pride pins in various designs. The top row are Game Changer inspired pins, patches, and stickers that say "we've been here the whole time" in trans, progress, and non-binary colours. Row two shows circular pride pins for a wide range of flags that say it's dr actually, a rainbow frog, and flower pins in a range of flag colours. Row three shows a progress pride tree, a trans fern necklace, and a colour change flower that goes from white petals to rainbow. Row four shows trans lesbian and trans gay flags, and pins that say "ask me about allyship" or "real allies take action" on trans, progress, or black backgrounds

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Bernhard Werner @bernhard-werner.de · 29d

Join me in 15 minutes in a livestream and watch me struggle to code an animation about the Hilbert curve!
#MathsAnimationTMiP

Hilbert curve - Animation Generation Collaboration 006 #MathsAnimationTMiP

YouTube video by Sum and Product

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Sep 8

I built a Hilbert curve out of matchsticks for #MathsAnimationTMiP!

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Create an animation showing a Hilbert curve filling a square #MathsAnimationTMiP

YouTube video by Sam Hartburn

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Pseudorandom Ensemble @prensemble.bsky.social · Sep 8

Check out Kit wearing a Pseudorandom Ensemble T-shirt! You too could buy one, from pseudorandom-ensemble.teemill.com

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Sep 7

My Mathstonbury T-shirt arrived from my friends in The Pseudo Random Ensemble ‘one of the UK’s top ten mathematically-inspired musical combos’!

How many bands to you recognise? Extra points for the maths connection.
pseudorandom-ensembl...

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here’s a zoomed in version in case you wanted to better see the band names.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Sep 7

My Mathstonbury T-shirt arrived from my friends in The Pseudo Random Ensemble ‘one of the UK’s top ten mathematically-inspired musical combos’!

How many bands to you recognise? Extra points for the maths connection.
pseudorandom-ensembl...

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looks good!

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · Sep 8

This month's #MathsAnimationTMiP deadline is 15th September - if you can make a video showing how to create an animation of a Hilbert curve being drawn, submit it for our playlist and share your approach! Info and submission link at tmip.uk/animation

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Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @teakayb.mathsy.space · Sep 3

I reviewed the @prensemble.bsky.social gig at #TMiP25 for the Aperiodical:

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#music #maths #MathsToday

Review: The Pseudorandom Ensemble at TMiP25

The number one component of music that really gets my attention is Brian May plays guitar, but a very close second is clever lyrics. The first morning of 2025’s Talking Maths in Public (TMiP) confe…

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · Sep 3

Announcing our infographic competition, Graph Craft!
Thanks to a grant from #MathsWeekScot @mathsweek.scot we are delighted to launch our infographic competition for students aged 11-16 in #Scotland. Students can win a variety of book bundles - closes on 10th October. Submit here: bit.ly/4n9Aczn

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Aug 31

This show was so much fun! Hard to believe it was only 2 years ago that I did a lightning talk at @tmip.bsky.social entitled 'Do you wanna be in a band with me?' Now I have a wonderful community of people who love making maths music (most not pictured here). More to come soon, online and in person.

Pseudorandom Ensemble @prensemble.bsky.social · Aug 31

We had an amazing time performing maths songs to a sold-out audience, to open the Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social conference last week. We couldn't have asked for a more welcoming audience for our first in-person show. There will hopefully be a few clips coming soon!

Photo shows Colin Beveridge singing, Sam Holloway playing keyboard, Sam Hartburn singing and Gavan Fantom playing tambourine. They are wearing black T-shirt which, when put together, read {pseudo random}. A screen to the right displays the words 'He's number 1, but he transcends the cardinals'.

Photo shows Colin Beveridge playing guitar, Sam Holloway playing keyboard, Sam Hartburn singing and Gavan Fantom playing clarinet. They are wearing black T-shirt which, when put together, read {pseudo random}. The back wall is lit with blue lights and there are blue and yellow triangle patterns projected on the ceiling.

Photo shows Colin Beveridge playing guitar, Sam Holloway playing keyboard, Sam Hartburn singing and Gavan Fantom playing a guiro. They are wearing black T-shirt which, when put together, read {pseudo random}. Sam Hartburn is wearing antennae made of purple sparkly pipe cleaners, and Gavan is wearing a mortarboard. The back wall is lit with green lights.

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Aug 18

I didn't learn my lesson. Today's lunch featured cinnamon-flavoured hummus. Not what I was aiming for, but it was actually quite nice.

Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Apr 11

I accidentally seasoned the veg with cinnamon instead of paprika. How's your Friday going?

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Big MathsJam @bigmathsjam.bsky.social · Aug 18

The MathsJam Gathering 2025 is now open for booking! We'll be at a new venue - Kents Hill Park, in Milton Keynes - on 22-23 November 2025. Tickets and more info at mathsjam.com/gatheri...

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks for letting us know - I've fixed this now.

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · Aug 4

The prompt for this month's #MathsAnimationTMiP is "create an animation showing a Hilbert Curve filling a square". Can you do it? What software would you use? It can be as high- or low-tech as you like! Join in and submit at tmip.uk/animation

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Bernhard Werner @bernhard-werner.de · Jul 28

Join me later for another #MathsAnimationTMiP live stream, where we will shove a poor Pikachu across the screen!

Reflections and Rotations - Animation Generation Collaboration 005 #MathsAnimationTMiP

YouTube video by Sum and Product

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Jul 24

My video for #MathsAnimationTMiP July: Create an animation showing that a reflection followed by another reflection is equivalent to a rotation. youtu.be/wFdlrn-kzsg

Find out more and join in at www.talkingmathsinpublic.uk/animation/

Create an animation showing that two reflections are equivalent to a rotation. #MathsAnimationTMiP

YouTube video by Sam Hartburn

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · Jul 16

CALLING ALL CROCHET GEEKS AND GRANNIES

Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com

* We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Jul 15

This sounds wonderful!

Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · Jul 15

Tickets are now available for the Cambridge Creative Research Conference, a fully online conference dedicated to exploring creative and arts-based research methods in fun and participatory workshops. Please share widely!
lucyrycroftsmith.com/cambridge-cr...

a man in a blue suit says let your creativity flow in front of a tree

ALT: a man in a blue suit says let your creativity flow in front of a tree

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