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Sophia Wood

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

A dodecahedral world floating in space with canyons, trees, mountains, and other fantasy map elements.

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

List of Mathober prompts for 31 days - listed in bottom of this post.

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

A triangle with dissected into smaller triangles with 5 of them shaded that have light medium and dark shaded vertices.

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.

17 mod 5 = 2 is shown to display modular arithmetic.

Inquiries-Week 2: Modular Fibonacci

9 circles shaded with black lenses and grey lunes showing the intersecting of a same sized circle in a row.

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

The complete graph of 238 - but it just looks like grey concentric circles with black dots on the edges.

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

voronoi diagram with small cells down a vertical line in the center and large cells at the right and left edges

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,

circles with words of birds, distance, tallies, icons, cinquains, and micro at vertices of a hexagon - lines between vertices

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

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

a gradient shading of overlapping circles from orange to purple

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,

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 a

circles along a wavy curve with random radii and shading is alternating between white and blue gradients.

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,

swirly blues and greens and purples

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

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

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", "

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

just enough for beauty

just enough for beauty

let cRng = []; function setup() { //this canvas createCanvas(windowWidth * 0.8, windowHeight * 0.7); } function draw() { //of time t = -0.2 + abs(sin(frameCount / 600)); //takes on skies ground( 0,height / 2,t * 100,t * 110,t * 150,t * 180,t * 200,t * 220,random(15, 20)); //and soaks in the

circle of arcs coming from the edge on a slate blue background

arcs are we

poem is the comments //; full page view is here. let arcs, t; let nArcs = 400, diam = 100, a = 0.005; function setup() { arcs = []; //arcs are we createCanvas(windowWidth, windowHeight * 0.8); angleMode(DEGREES); //rotating through space for (let i = 0; i < nArcs; i++) { p = random(0, diam); arcs[i]

parametric pieces

parametric pieces

let pieces; //we are but arrays of different versions of ourselves let timeOfNow; //never the same, yet self similar let jiggleBool = false; //with or without the same energy let red1, green1, blue1; //fragments tied with color function setup() { createCanvas(600, 600); //we have a canvas to paint ourselves pieces = []; //with

to remind ourselves

a coded poem function setup() { //we make these spaces for creation createCanvas(600, 600); } function draw() { //in which notions of time repeat aNotionofTime = abs(sin(frameCount / 500)); //in which notions of time cease aNotionofUnTime = abs(cos(frameCount / 500)); //where magnitudes of color are relative aMagnitudeofColor = random(240 - 200 * aNotionofTime); //we

Toggled Existence

Toggled Existence

//we are but canvases with centers and symmetry let aCenterOfBeing; //that hold strands - threads of thought let strandsOfThought = []; //separate from memory let memories = []; //memories have a shelf life let timeOfMemory = 0; //thoughts are but moments of mind let timeOfThought = 0; //currents flow around us - carry us - true time let timeOfCurrent

a blue and purple sky scene

Ancient Is

generative art + haiku ancient is the light that pierces the firmament with thoughts of distance ancient is the cloud that wraps us in existence a breath that is shared ancient is the dust that is our substance — in which we occupy space ancient is the pull of gravity — it grounds

this and all images on this page are pencil-like mandala and symmetric in nature.

inner sketch

code + poetry when you sit — quiet as an observer — of thought or of not a thought connecting — nodes — paths you draw these inner sketches of spiritual breath p5js code: See the Pen inner sketch by Sophia (fractal kitty) (she/her) (@fractalkitty) on CodePen.

I <3 playing with math at the Recurse Center!

Sophia

Mathematics educator and creative coder exploring the beauty of mathematical concepts through interactive visualizations and playful learning.

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