When the Butterfly Gates Open

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"This scene evokes Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem, which describes isolated communities of mathematicians living apart from society. The gates of these monasteries open, depending on the community, every year, ten years, hundred years, or, for an enigmatic few, every thousand years. Before the virtual lighting altered them, the colors of both patterns, gates and globe, were the same, drawn from a photograph (and negative) of a medallion of blue Morpho butterfly wings that I inherited from an ancestor. The pattern on the gates shows color-reversing wallpaper symmetry; the pattern on the floating globe is icosahedral.". Exhibition: SymmetryScapes West: an exhibition of mathematical art.

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