Project 2

Project 2
Multicultural Mathematics
Dr. Rachel Hall

The project is due Friday, December 10th, in class.

You should be prepared to make a short presentation of the project--show the class your project and discuss the mathematical and artistic methods you have used to make the project. If you made a sona design plus a story, tell the story, and if you made a drum composition, play it for the class. Projects should be the product of about 4 or 5 hours work. They will be graded on creativity, complexity, and use of concepts we discussed in class or in the readings. Projects should also be original--that is, not a reproduction or variation of traditional artwork or of artwork by another artist.

Choose one of the following:

A sona design or collection of designs, a sona design made into a Celtic knot or collection of knots, or a sona design plus a story.
A collection of at least 7 strip or wallpaper patterns, each of different symmetry types. You should be able to identify the symmetry types.
A drum composition. Please email me the MIDI file or burn it on a CD and print the ABC Source file to hand in.

BONUS: get your work published! I have written an article about this class that will be published next Spring in a magazine called PRIMUS. I am looking for one or two examples of student work for my article. With your permission, the best student projects will appear in the article (if it's a drum composition, I'll put a link in the article to the MIDI file).