Art inspired by mathematics

It is interesting how you can create mandalas from geometrical figures using translations, symmetries,rotations in tess programm

you can see in the web album what mandalas we are obtained:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tantagoja/MandalasFromGeometricalFigure#

We start the work with program "Poly".

Poly is a shareware program for exploring and constructing polyhedra.With Poly, you can manipulate polyhedral solids on the computer in a variety ofways. Flattened versions (nets) of polyhedra may be printed and then cut out,folded, and taped, to produce three-dimensional models.

POLYHEDRA HAVE BEEN STUDIED BY GEOMETERS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. TROUGH HISTORY , POLYHEDRA HAVE BEEN CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORLD ART. THE PEAK OF THIS RELATIONSHIP WAS CERTAINLY IN THE RENAISSANCE. LEONARDO DA VINCI WAS THE MAJOR RENAISSANCE MAN: ARTIST, MATHEMATICIAN. HE WAS AGREAT LOVER OF GEOMETRY. LEONARDO DA VINCI’S  ILLUSTRATIONS  SYMBOLIZE ...

The students made Christmas trees and mandalas with decorations for Christmas  using Tess programm, and a Christmas tree with fractals made by hands.

http://picasaweb.google.com/tantagoja/MathematicalArtForChristmas#