This website is about a artist who used math while doing art. The artist that I looked up was M.C. Escher. He was a very famous artist that created challenging mathematical artwork. He used very simple drawing tools and the naked eye, but was able to create stunning mathematical pieces. His particular drawing, Ascending and Descending, was one of his masterpieces. I learned that he used very challenging math for his artwork.
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Module One Post One (Art and Math)
In this website it tells me that when someone uses art to draw something they also use math. Leonardo Da Vinci used the golden ratio while thinking of the art he wanted to draw. Mathematics has inspired textile arts like quilting, knitting, cross-stitch, crochet, and weaving. People usually use math for measuring the picture before they draw, and sketching. I learned that if I ever wanted to draw a picture I could try to use these ideas.
Module One Post Five (sidewalk art)
The last website I chose talks about what perspective is. I also provided a video to support what it says. In the website, it says that perspective has different ways it presents itself, as it has one to three vanishing points. when you do perspective, it used math called projective geometry.
The video i got talks about how in 3D sidewalk paintings, if you look right above, it will look extremely distorted, but from the side however, it looks like it is popping up. this all works because it uses mathematical techniques old artists used back then, and what we still use today.
Module 1 Post 1 [Music and Mathematics ]
This site explains a wide variety of how music can relate with mathematics. The site explains that most music pieces have a form known as “Binary” and “Ternary” form. Binary is a musical form that has 2 sections: A and B. Sometimes it might be A-A-B-B if the composer wants to repeat a section.Ternary is a musical form that has 3 sections. The most common type for Ternary form is A-B-A formation.
This site also explains how a scale is a set of pitches used in creating pieces. Most pieces stay in one key while others change into other keys. Each key has a minor and major key. The higher a note is, the higher the hertz (Hz). A tonic note on A major would have a lower hertz while a note such as a high A would have a higher hertz.This is known as an interval.
I believe this site will be helpful to me because it provides tons of links while also providing a vast variety of why music and mathematics are related.