Framed textile pieces by Kristen Miller with encroaching pieces from Jane Schiffhauer's installation in the "Symmetry Breaking" exhibit at Marylhurst University's Art Gym. (Courtesy of Art Gym) By ...

SymmetryWorks! is a major interdisciplinary multi-event project at Bowdoin based on the mathematical art of Frank Farris, a mathematician at Santa Clara University. The event begins Sept. 12. In his ...

With these free printable symmetry drawing worksheets kids can practice drawing symmetrical pictures to begin to understand the concept of symmetry. Kids have a natural inclination to understand the ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of Meet a UChicagoan, a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community. Carolyn Yackel, SB'92, flipped through photos of ...

The Victorian ceramicist wanted to create a utopian art of abstract symmetries. But his mirrored plates – full of mermaids, dragons and peacocks – are more home decor than high art Mathematics has ...

The title of this group show implies that the audience should expect symmetry and motion from the 11 participating artists, including Fariha Nadir and Syed Ammad Tahir. And you ought to, if only ...

Your guides to the weird side of the web showcase ambigram art and the psychology of visual symmetry.

To most people, “symmetry” means the bilateral symmetry exhibited by, say, a butterfly, or the human face. That is, if you take a picture of a butterfly and draw a straight line down the middle of the ...

I teach physics to college art students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. You have published three issues of symmetry, and each time I've found something in it to point out to my students ...

Symmetry is everywhere in our natural world. Just take a look at your hands, a butterfly, or a sunflower. It’s easy to pass off the idea of symmetry and symmetric structures as a simple quirk of ...