Sophia Wood

Math-obsessed perpetual asker of why. Random task penguin. Life thoughts are often in haiku. (She/her)


genuary

Genuary 2026

Happy New Year! It's time for Genuary 2026! I am not sure how many prompts I will do (or combine), but I hope to share my code and progress here. I hope to get at least 5-10 done this year with a mix of different languages and approaches.

inquiries

Inquiries-Week 6: Beautiful Chords

Introduction In this inquiry, we explore chords, which are lines drawn across circles, using different rules to create various patterns, curves, and shapes. This inquiry will be different from those in the Inquiries Series in that it will be more open, with a focus on math + art play. Activity 1:

december adventure

December Adventure Log

December Adventure was started by Eli_oat at Oatmeal. I love seeing what others do this month - here is a log of logs. This December, I plan to make a generative quilt, play with origami, doodle some mossy mandalas, set up next year's journal, and who knows

somewhere here

A coded poem and track The Track: Initiated on a piano, and realized on an OP-1 Field. somewhere here0:00/101.302857142857151× The Visual: Human coded in p5js with p5sound - enjoy in fullscreen. Click here for the visual with music - (CW: Strobing effects). The Coded Poem (that makes

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Inquiries-Week 5: Triangles Emerge

Introduction In this inquiry, nodes are connected one at a time. How many lines can you draw before a triangle emerges? Starting with Four Let's start with four nodes - draw them on a sheet of paper. How many lines (called edges) can you draw before a triangle

Mathober 2025 Sketches

This is the post I'll update with this year's Mathober art. Check back and see what's been added throughout the month. Notation (find the sigma) P5.js sketches Link, Deviation, Polyhedron Strongly, Digraph Sink, Partial Sum Notation, Octagonal Heptagonal, Chi Stellations, Orthogonal Polynomial, Monotonic,

science

Sci Art September

1 Fluid flowing stream 2 Coral Coral with tentacle-like growth 3 Inertia perpendicular to gravity in an orbit 4 Diffusion denser particles going through osmosis to be less dense 5 Skeleton n-skeleton graph 6 Growth plant growth cycle 7 Virus viruses arranged as a gasket 8 Permutation three symbols permutated

storytelling

Math Storytelling Day 2025

Today is math storytelling day, so I thought I would make a visual coloring sheet as a prompt for others. What characters live in this world? What stories are there to tell? What number system would you have? What mathemagical spells would you cast? Where would you explore? If you

Mathober 2025

Mathober is almost here! I am looking forward to seeing everyone’s creativity and take on this year’s prompts. If you’ve never participated before, now’s the perfect time to jump in! The goal of Mathober is simple: have fun, learn, grow, and play with the prompts. No

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Inquiries-Week 4: Triangulate the Triangle

Introduction In this inquiry, triangles are dissected into smaller triangles with vertices labeled as either light (L), medium (M), or dark (D). Any triangles that are LMD triangles are shaded with color. Triangle play Let's start with a triangle LMD: Now, let's dissect the triangle by

Take Two

Haiku + Code with a second take dance with the first – tethered mass orbiting encores Your browser does not support iframes. View Take Two directly let take1, take2; //each action let colorOfAction, gesso; //contrasted with color from canvas let m; function setup() { //placed on the easle of you createCanvas((m = 0.

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Inquiries-Week 3: Reflect and Rotate

Introduction Explore the reflection and rotation of polygons to discover the patterns that emerge. Polygon Play Let's start with a triangle ABC. We can rotate clockwise so that each vertex moves clockwise by one step: We can also reflect (or flip) the shape horizontally: These rotations and reflections

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Inquiries-Week 2: Modular Fibonacci

mod = 2

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Inquiries-Week 1: Circle Shading

This is the first of a series of guided inquiries in math. Introduction When circles overlap they make lunes: or lenses: or other fun shapes: Activity Let's play with how we color circles that overlap. First, draw a few circles on a page. Make their intersections distinct (no

238th Carnival of Mathematics

Wow! It's the 238th Carnival of Mathematics organized by Aperiodical. This has been a fun month with lots of submissions and lots of beautiful math art. To start let's jump into the number 238 itself. 238 is: * 2 × 7 × 17. * the sum of the first 13

Time at the Recurse Center

In January, I kicked off a journey of reflection and growth at the Recurse Center (RC) – a retreat where you work at the edge of your abilities with wonderful peers to pair program, study with, and grow. My goals in participating were to learn and play with different programming languages,

StreamOf.me

On winter solstice I had my personal "new-year" and I started an experimental journal of self. My motivation was to see if my experiences and awareness change through the type of journaling that I do. Will tallying the days that I glimpse the moon, counting the number of

math poetry

Math-ffirmations

Find balance through symmetry. $$f(x) = f(-x)$$ Approximation improves with experience. $$e^x = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^n}{n!} = 1 + x + \frac{x^2}{2!} + \frac{x^3}{3!} + \cdots$$ To untangle is to meditate. $$\huge{\bigcirc}$$ Be ever-changing. $$\frac{du}{dt} \ne 0$$ Allow for transformation.

A Ripple of Ripples

One thing I love about math and art is the conversations and iterations that flow from their patterns and beauty. After posting Walking Ripples, I have enjoyed seeing how the simplicity of shading circles propagates in conversation, art, and exploration. Here are just a few of the follow-up activities, responses,

Wyrm Beans

Do you ever look at knitted items and liken them to dragon scales? - I do. So when I decided to make generative textured hats it made sense to call them Wyrm Beans. Just as we can have generative pixel colors on a screen, we can have generative textures in

Walking Ripples

Over the last week I have been drawing circles along paths and then shading them with 2 colors using random numbers to determine their radii. For example, the one on this card was drawn with 10 evenly spaced circles along a line using the random radii of 48,30,70,

poetry

manifold

a coded poem //poem is in the comments (and on codepen) let points = []; //you start as an empty set let sigma, rho, beta; //with a faint idea of structure function setup() { //and a canvas to be projected upon cnv = createCanvas((w = min(windowWidth, windowHeight) * 0.9), w); //and so you

poetry

from beneath

a coded poem //poem is in the comments (they describe the code as well) let air; //there is this substance let radiance = 3; //that drifts towards a light let nBubbles = 1000; //encapsulated function setup() { c = max(800, min(windowWidth, windowHeight)) * 0.9; //in which you witness createCanvas(c, c); //through

poetry

of atoms

meditate to an infinite reversible poem + scrolling generative art For the best experience, open ofatoms.art on a desktop— scroll at your own pace. (It works on mobile with swipe, but not as well). This can be read forward, backward, and in a loop: infinity = [ "breathe in", "

poetry

in dynamic existence

15 haiku + generative symmetries one moment — one place influences the next one all these breaths are linked reflections exist ebb and flow — cycles of life a tide — rise — fall — rise and then there is this at your center — trilogy birth — life — death — of time and this awareness of a structure