Halving Processes in a Square
Alex Van Bogaert

Proceedings of Bridges 2022: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 457–460
Short Papers

Abstract

As a visual artist retired from a professional life engaged in architectural implementations, I come personally back this year to Bridges to share my passion for the square. I deliberately chose to present a significant range of the preparation work of my colorful geometric acrylic compositions, to help interested readers to decipher them, beyond a pleasing eye catch for the rapid proceedings browser. This shows how, as a non-mathematician, I consistently designed them for years according to a number of simple variations of the successive halving processes “halvings” of portions of the square, the apparent complexity stemming only from their pile-ups.

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