From Lissajous to Pas de Deux to Tattoo: The Graphic Life of a Beautiful Loop
Douglas McKenna

Proceedings of Bridges 2011: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 295–302
Regular Papers

Abstract

The author re-implemented of a custom drawing technique—developed nearly 30 years ago for large pen plotter artwork—in order to redraw an aesthetically tuned, calligraphically widened, compound Lissajous figure, only to find it rendered a third time in an unusual medium for mathematical art: as a tattoo.

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