Artistic Excursions with the Sierpinski Triangle

Year: 2019 Authors: Roza Aceska; Ben O’Brien

Core claim

Student exploration of the Sierpinski triangle can generate both mathematical insight and original digital art, including a star-pentagon built from rotated equilateral triangle copies.

Topics

Sierpinski triangle, fractal geometry, mathematics and the arts, digital artwork

Domains

fractal geometry, geometry, infinite series, polygon rotation, digital art, generative art, math-art education, animation

Methods

hands-on construction, area calculation, Processing programming, Python code template

Media

equilateral triangles, Processing, Python, starfield background

Source status

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