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Golden Gnomon, by Doug McKenna
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| Title | Golden Gnomon, by Doug McKenna |
| Artist | McKenna, Doug |
| Description | Golden Gnomon is a new, more accurately drawn version of a pen plotter drawing McKenna first made back in 1985. It is based on a non-periodic Ammann tiling, which is in turn based on even and odd powers of the square root of the golden ratio. Not surprisingly, one can even find the Fibonacci numbers hidden in the design. |
| Medium | Giclée print, 36" x 48" |
| About the Artist | McKenna is a pioneer in recursive designs. In addition to his work as a software developer--itself a form of mathematical art--McKenna has for nearly 30 years created works in his chosen medium of fractal tile designs, space-filling curves, and other recursive or self-referential geometries. These constructions would have been impossible to accurately create before the computer age. As a result of his growing portfolio of illustrations, constructions, as well as his discovery of a fundamental space-filling curve construction, during 1980-81 McKenna hired on at IBM Research as one of Prof. Benoit Mandelbrot's two full-time computer graphics illustrators, where he designed and coded many high-resolution pictures of geometric fractals for Mandelbrot's influential treatise, The Fractal Geometry of Nature. |
| Date | DateofExhibition:March3-30,2009 |
| Contributors | Van Wagoner, Kathryn, exhibit curator; |
| Subject | Art; Golden section; Fibonacci numbers; |
| Type | Image;Stillimage |
| Format | image/jpg |
| Relation (isPartOf) | Infinite Beauty: An Art Exhibit Inspired by Mathematics. Held March 3 - 30, 2009 Utah Valley University Library |
| Rights | All rights held by artist. |
| Publisher | Published digitally by Utah Valley University Library |
| Identifier | Golden Gnomon |
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