Showcase

A fractal is a curve or geometric figure which parts’ have the same statistical characteristics as the whole.  Fractals follow patterns or rules that recur at progressively larger or smaller scales.  An iteration is one repetition of this rule, and fractals have many iterations or levels […]

Our group consisted of Haleigh Sink, Summer Xia, and Megan Shanian and we were assigned to present the classes fractal carpets. For our presentation, we showed everyone what fractal carpets are and all the ones that the class made for their individual projects. We decided […]

For the final class of the semester, Hugh and I did a presentation on the dragon curve at the showcase. We had examples of every level of the dragon curve from level one to level 12. We constructed levels six through 12 and drew out the first six levels of the curve […]

On Thursday, we had a great time presenting our cake cutting project to other students and professors at the showcase. We brought our prints to demonstrate how we created this unique way of cutting cake in a […]

We had a great experience showcasing our project about the trefoil knot to different students, classmates and professors. We brought our traced projections and some extra pictures of the trefoil knot to the showcase so that people would be able to visualize our object better. […]

On Thursday we had our class Showcase event. For our presentation, Emily and I focused on Hinged Dissections. To help people visualize Hinged Dissections, we had a few different displays. One of our displays had information on Rhombic Dodecahedron along with two 3-D printed […]

On Thursday, we had a ton of fun showing off our Rhombicuboctahedron open project off to those who came to the showcase. We had an opportunity to share our story of how we came to choose our object, and how we learned about polyhedral graph theory and its application […]

For the final showcase, Isabelle and I got the chance to show everyone our Borromean Rings project. To explain our project, we used pictures to show our initial ideas and models for our designs. We also had an interactive display using our detachable print and using a demonstration […]

Our final presentation was on Prince Rupert’s Cube. Essentially, the Prince Rupert problem was proposed by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Prince Rupert’s cube is the largest cube that can pass through a hole cut through another cube without splitting the cube into […]

During the showcase on Thursday, Hunter and I focused on showcasing the technical capabilities of the Meissner Tetrahedron. We mainly focused on its ability to spin 360 degrees without interruption. We printed six new Meissner tetrahedrons of equal size to demonstrate […]

During the showcase on Thursday, Collin and I reprinted the pieces to better fit our demonstrations. We began by explaining the fundamental basis of the Pizza problem, having even pizza slices that don’t all touch the middle. Once we established the problem, we explained […]