Math Art Project Reflection

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Sorry for missing this art project reflection. 

The image shown above is the our replica of Mergerate’ art work which is the work we investigate in this project. I would like to thank my group member Kyle for setting up the project on LaTeX. Then we finished coding as a group. In this work, the triangular grids are numbered sequentially beginning with 1 at the centre and continuing outward along a spiral path to 486 at the far left. A triangle is coloured cyan if it is prime, magenta if it is a happy number, and yellow if it is a triangular numbers. The Fibonacci number is represented as a transparent white triangles layered on top. A blended colour is used for integers belonging to more than one sequence. 

Following is our extended art work. After group discussion, we decided to include perfect squares and lucky numbers in our extended art work. We found that the perfect squares produced an interesting "spiral galaxy" pattern with 5 arms that was similar to the one produced by the triangular numbers in the original work. 


The interactive activity could be improved, since it was a grand scale project and "spiral galaxy" pattern would emerge more obviously with a lager amount of numbers being drawn. However,  because of the limited time, 96 triangles to be coloured is the largest we could reasonably have.

This art work could be applied to the curriculum very well when we are introducing arithmetic sequences to students, since it involved some arithmetic series. The types of involved series can be altered according to the topics by teachers. Also, it helps students to interpret series and its pattern in a visual way. 

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