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For the Love of STEM: 20+ Edible Creations Inspired by Math & Science

14 Sep

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics rarely get more delicious than this, illustrated and replicated in the form of solid chocolate, sugar crystals, fondant icing, pancakes and even bagels. Wouldn’t you want to take a bite out of an anatomically correct life-sized human skull, a 3D representation of kinetic movement, a Rubik’s cube, a Hubble Telescope photo or gory veterinary surgery in cake form?

Kinetic Tarts & Geometric Cakes

3D-printed molds allow pastry chef Dinara Kasko to make pies, tarts, cakes and other treats with shapes unlike anything you’ve ever seen in a dessert case before. Her latest is a collaboration with artist Jose Margulis, a series of delicious-looking cakes inspired by kinetic waves. They’re made of ingredients like almond sponge cake, yogurt mousse, mascarpone and streusel. Older works include ‘Triangulation,’ a lime-basil cake for SoGood magazine, and ‘The Bubbles,’ which take their inspiration from cells. For the latter, she explains, “I used such geometric constructing principles as triangulation, the Voronoi diagram and biomimicry.” Intrigued? You can buy silicone cake molds from her website and try to recreate these desserts at home.

Geometric Patterns Inside a Cylinder of Chocolate

Geometric patterns hidden within a solid cylinder of chocolate are slowly revealed by a blade on a mill. Studio Wieki Somers teamed up with chocolatier Rafael Mutter to create this installation for Vitra Design Museum, displayed at Art Basel in 2012 for a retrospective of dutch furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld. The patterns continuously change the deeper into the cylinder you go, more complex at times and simpler at others, but always mathematical in nature.

Gory Veterinary Anatomy Cakes

This one’s for the veterinarians out there. One student at the Nottingham Veterinary School created this semi-realistic model of a canine’s superficial head muscles in cake form as part of a fundraiser; another rendered a dog testicle, while a third portrayed a leg amputation in edible form. There’s also equine surgery, and an ‘ascarid impaction colic,’ a procedure to get rid of a severe worm infestation in horses. Looks tasty, huh?

Rubik’s Cube Pastries

French pastry chef Cedric Grolet offers a unique edible spin on the Rubik’s cube in the form of 27 individual pastries. Though he’s spurned the handheld puzzle’s usual primary colors for muted pastels, the object remains recognizable in form. You can purchase one of these cakes at Le Dali, a restaurant inside the Le Meurice Hotel in Paris.

Galaxy Eclairs

Looking like something straight out of NASA’s stunning satellite imagery of space, these cosmic eclairs by Musse Confectionery in Ukraine are truly out of this world. The glaze swirls together hues of blue, purple, pink and white for results so beautiful they’d almost be hard to eat (except that they look delicious.) The chef took inspiration from Hubble Space Telescope photos, offering the eclairs in flavors like raspberry, vanilla, pistachio, salted caramel and chocolate. They’re available in the confectionery’s shop in Kiev.

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Lessons in Graffiti: Math Symbols Make Street Art Equations

23 Feb

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1 window plus 1 window equals 2 windows – seems obvious, but it warrants at least a double-take, so to speak, when you see it so explicitly expressed. Simple black-outlined, white-filled, faux-three-dimensional shapes that render urban happenstance into something with a humorous sense of order.

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Dubbed Sum Times (itself a cute play on words) this latest street project by Aakash Nihalani skips the alpha and numeric and heads straight for the symbolic, turning everything from trash cans and dumpsters to windows and doors into educational equations.

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The basics of multiplication, divisions, addition and subtraction – literal object lessons that makes chaos more comprehensible, and might even teach school children a thing or two (including how to subvert their surroundings).

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Regular readers and fans may recognize this artist’s style from similarly-abstract street artwork including this urban tape art series and this set of shifting geometries, each of which also impose a kind of three-dimensional geometry on flat urban surfaces.

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Math + Paper Craft: Computer Scientist Creates 3D Origami

26 Oct

[ By Steph in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

A single sheet of paper becomes a complex three-dimensional object in the hands of Jun Mitani, a computer scientist who uses geometric modeling software to aid him in his designs. Mitani has been studying algorithms and user interfaces for generating 3D shapes that can be realized with folding paper in a twist on the traditional craft of origami.

Not only does Mitani fold these mathematical origami objects himself, he also designs computer software to come up with the shapes. Mitani’s origami designs have ‘rotational symmetry’, meaning they look the same after a certain amount of rotation.

Mitani scores folding lines in a sheet of paper and then folds it by hand. While large sheets of paper don’t work well for complex origami shapes due to a lack of structural strength, Mitani is beginning to experiment with other materials, collaborating with industrial companies. That might reduce one issue that plagues Mitani in his work – he has suffered from, he says, “a few thousand” paper cuts.

“When I was a kid, I didn’t have much interest in folding origami, but in papercraft,” says Mitani in an interview with The Creators Project. “I fabricated a lot of paper models, such as cars, ships, buildings, and animals, etc. by cutting and gluing pieces of paper. I felt that origami, just folding, was too restricted. On the other hand, I was enthusiastic about the computer, which my father bought when I was a first-year student in elementary school. As a fusion of two objects of interest, papercraft and computer, the theme of my Ph.D. thesis became a method for designing paper models with the computer.”


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Learn Math – Division Rap

16 Sep

Kids of all ages love learning division by performing along with DJ Doc Roc. Positive lyrics, cool rap music, and high-energy action generate lots of excitement as students learn to solve division facts quickly and accurately. With these fun video songs, kids discover what division is all about, solve story problems, use remainders, and even work long division problems. Once they’ve mastered the basics, learners practice solving division facts with divisors up to nine before hearing the answers. This is the perfect way to learn division concepts and develop speed and accuracy for solving basic division facts. The comical, animated characters help students acquire a strong grasp of the concepts behind division. Students are especially excited to learn the relationship between division and multiplication. Awards: Parents’ Choice Award, Parents’ Guide to Children’s Media, National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, and Coalition for Quality Children’s Media Kids First! Endorsement. “This marvelous educational program comes from the company that has been at the forefront of using music to teach and reinforce lessons for so many years now. The video teaches kids tricks to help master division. Cute animated characters give problems both verbally and visually and then allow the child to calculate the answer before revealing it. Talk about instant gratification! Best of all the entire experience is set to upbeat songs that are both catchy and memorable. Several testers told us

 
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Learn Math – Division Rap

15 Sep

Kids of all ages love learning division by performing along with DJ Doc Roc. Positive lyrics, cool rap music, and high-energy action generate lots of excitement as students learn to solve division facts quickly and accurately. With these fun video songs, kids discover what division is all about, solve story problems, use remainders, and even work long division problems. Once they’ve mastered the basics, learners practice solving division facts with divisors up to nine before hearing the answers. This is the perfect way to learn division concepts and develop speed and accuracy for solving basic division facts. The comical, animated characters help students acquire a strong grasp of the concepts behind division. Students are especially excited to learn the relationship between division and multiplication. Awards: Parents’ Choice Award, Parents’ Guide to Children’s Media, National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, and Coalition for Quality Children’s Media Kids First! Endorsement. “This marvelous educational program comes from the company that has been at the forefront of using music to teach and reinforce lessons for so many years now. The video teaches kids tricks to help master division. Cute animated characters give problems both verbally and visually and then allow the child to calculate the answer before revealing it. Talk about instant gratification! Best of all the entire experience is set to upbeat songs that are both catchy and memorable. Several testers told us

 
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Learn Math – Division Rap

08 Aug

Kids of all ages love learning division by performing along with DJ Doc Roc. Positive lyrics, cool rap music, and high-energy action generate lots of excitement as students learn to solve division facts quickly and accurately. With these fun video songs, kids discover what division is all about, solve story problems, use remainders, and even work long division problems. Once they’ve mastered the basics, learners practice solving division facts with divisors up to nine before hearing the answers. This is the perfect way to learn division concepts and develop speed and accuracy for solving basic division facts. The comical, animated characters help students acquire a strong grasp of the concepts behind division. Students are especially excited to learn the relationship between division and multiplication. Awards: Parents’ Choice Award, Parents’ Guide to Children’s Media, National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval, and Coalition for Quality Children’s Media Kids First! Endorsement. “This marvelous educational program comes from the company that has been at the forefront of using music to teach and reinforce lessons for so many years now. The video teaches kids tricks to help master division. Cute animated characters give problems both verbally and visually and then allow the child to calculate the answer before revealing it. Talk about instant gratification! Best of all the entire experience is set to upbeat songs that are both catchy and memorable. Several testers told us
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