Polygonal Art Illustration: Bust of Pythagoras of Samos in
the Capitoline Museums, Rome
Pythagoras of Samos ( c. 570 - c. 495 BC) was a Greek philosopher
and mathematician and is best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name.
Source:
Wikipedia, Pythagoras.
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This project is inspired by the Triangulation invented by the mathematician Boris Delaunay in 1934. While the process behind is complicated, the result reduce an image to its essentials, creating the illusions of triangles, prisms and pyramids.
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Delaunay Triangulation
A Delaunay triangulation for a set P of points in the plane is a triangulation such that no point in P is inside the circumcircle of any triangle in the triangulation. It can be shown that for all possible triangulations of P, a Delaunay triangulation maximizes the minimum angle of all angles of the triangles in the triangulation.
Thus, a Delaunay triangulation tends to avoid skinny triangles.
Delaunay triangulation is a good application of the circumcircle (circle which passes through the
three vertices of a triangle).
See also:
Word Cloud of Pythagorean Theorem
Statue of Liberty
art: Pythagoras squares
