A collage of Bohemian Matrix Plots

From the 2022 Maple Conference Art Gallery

The following three works are all from the Bohemian Matrix Calendar 2022. They were chosen
for the calendar by sampling reactions from an informal focus group (in the Spiral Vortex case,
by a sequence of Twitter polls). All three were computed and imaged in Maple.

Artist’s Statement:
Mathematical art must be true to the underlying mathematics. Colours and views can be
chosen for artistic reasons, but the fundamental truth of the objects being portrayed must not be
deliberately obfuscated. The art, if there is any at all, lies in the choices that can be made
without sacrificing that truth. Indeed there are many choices: resolution, view, and the infinite
array of colour schemes are only the beginning. All of these current images are planar, but
there is no reason to restrict it so, and indeed some images not shown here were portrayed on a
Riemann sphere, for instance.

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