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Mathober 2026 Art

Sophia Wood

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A moon at 67 percent illumination sits above an ellipse outlined by coral fungus with slight shadow on a dark teal background. A small banana slug moves toward the ellipse of coral fungus wit

It's Mathober! This post that will get updated throughout this month as I work on

prompts.

I am doing a few things this month so I separated them by type (doodles, code, Desmos).

Doodles

I am going with fungus this year.

Days 1-5 (perimeter of an ellipse, zebra graph, permutation list, linear recurrence, inellipse,Connected Topology)

A moon at 67 percent illumination sits above an ellipse outlined by coral fungus with slight shadow on a dark teal background. A small banana slug moves toward the ellipse of coral fungus with a little trail. Everything sits in a yellow frame with text below that says "a perimeter of a lunar ellipse integrated by coral fungus" written in a font made of slugs.
a crescent-waning moon sits in a burn forest silhouette with a triangle shadow of leaning trees at the main center. Within the triangle the underneath of a chip cherry mushroom makes an ellipse just touching the triangle edges creating an inellipse. there are highlights where moisture catches the moonlight. A small banana slug moves in the shadows up a tree

Day 7 and 8 (Five Circles Theorem, Parabolic Rotation)

five mushrooms grow above like looking up through a forest so that their caps centers are on the same circle and the intersections form lines that are a spiderweb with no spider. a banana slug climbs the one in the upper corner and it is all under low light with an almost new moon. the text says five circles cast a stellar web under a near new moon in a font drawn from slugs.
five woolly chanterelles are bunched together with different rotations and sizes under a 3% waning moon with parabolic edges. They grow on a shadow of a log with a banana slug moving toward them from the brush.

Code

Day 1, Day 2, Day 3,Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7

A circle filled with a sketchy swirl like a marble with teal tones and a lighter S-swirl in the center.
star-like petals rotate with sketchy chalk texture and drawn through colors on the radial lines with different shades of teal

Desmos

Day 1, Day 2, Day 3,Day 4(zoom in/out), Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8

A chessboard with all lines that connect squares that are 2 then 3 moves apart with shades of teal on a dark teal chessboard.
circle of life drawn with different blues of concentric circles using the permutations of 1,2,3
a teal composition of light and shadow created by rotating a parabola around the origin creating an almost checkering pattern outward with shadows on the right.

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Sophia

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

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