Light, Math, and Color – 2017 Projects

I just finished teaching another Light, Math, and Color minicourse. Twenty students researched a math topic and illustrated it with a stained glass window. Their projects this time around are really spectacular, especially considering these are first tries. (Note: If you hover over a picture, the math topic it illustrates will show up.)

Antiprism Graph Theory

Morley’s Trisector Thm

Borromean Rings

Hypercube

Tessellation

Three Proofs of Pythagorean Thm

Area of a Circle by Triangles

String Theory

Knot Theory

Ramsey’s Thm

Morley’s Trisector Thm

Pentagonal Fractal

Thales’ Thm

4-Color Thm

Platonic Solids & Maps

Voronoi Diagram

Pythagorean Snail

Van Obel’s Thm

Sierpinski Triangle

Complete Graph

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2013 Winterim: Light, Math & Color

I taught another three-week stained-glass mini-course this year. After my students learn the basic technique of copper-foil stained glass windows, they research a math topic, write a paper on it, and illustrate it with a window of their own design. Topics this year included systems of inequalities, the Fibonacci Sequence, corresponding angles formed by two lines and a transversal, the Four-Color Theorem, and the Pythagorean Theorem among others.

Here’s a gallery of their finished windows:

Orthocenter of a Triangle

Angle-Side-Angle Triangle Congruence

Compound Curve and System of Inequalities

Corresponding Angles formed by a Transversal

The Fibonacci Sequence

The Four-Color Theorem

Linear Inequality Solution on a Number Line

Medians, Circumcenter, and Tangents

A Catalog of Angles: Acute, Right, Obtuse, and Straight

The Pythagorean Theorem

Centroid of a Triangle

Incenter of a Triangle

A Virtual Tour of Our Windows

I been making artglass windows for almost 20 years now, and I guess I’ve gotten so accustomed to seeing the ones in our home that I don’t really notice them any more. So I was surprised by the positive responses from my Facebook friends when I posted a picture of the windows I made for our den.

I spent some time today taking pictures of all the windows I’ve made and installed, and here they are in a slide show for everyone to enjoy. There are many hours of labor invested in these, and it was nice to see them again in a fresh light!

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Artglass Windows

For the past 15 or so years, I have been making artglass windows for our home and others’. Here are three examples of my work. It’s pretty obvious that I like Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs very much.

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