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Bridges Halifax 2023

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
27–31 July 2023
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Front matter
The Editors
Invited Papers
An Aperiodic Monotile
Craig S. Kaplan
Pages 1–1
A Mathematical Journey through Literature
Sarah Hart
Pages 2–2
Math Coming Alive Through Theater, Art, and Exposition
Colin Adams
Pages 3–3
A Hard Day's Math: Connections Between Mathematics and Music
Jason Brown
Pages 4–4
Algorithmic Layout of Characters in Perspective
Mariel Bass, Erik D. Demaine, and Martin L. Demaine
Pages 5–14
The Compound Helical Cone as Kinematic Trace
Emanuel Jannasch and John Macnab
Pages 15–22
It All Began with a Quill Box: Reflections on Show Me Your Math
Lisa Lunney Borden
Pages 23–28
Regular Papers
Two-Disk Compound Symmetry Groups
Robert A. Hearn, William Kretschmer, Tomas Rokicki, Benjamin Streeter, and Eric Vergo
Pages 29–36
A New Tile-Based Method for Constructing Single-Line Drawings
Robert Bosch and Izzy Snyder
Pages 37–44
3D Dice Mosaics: A Multidirectional Dithering System
Hanan Tanasra, Gershon Elber, and Yoav Sterman
Pages 45–52
Pattern Continuity in Polygon Tessellations
Severi Virolainen
Pages 53–60
Topological Interlocking, Truchet Tiles and Self-Assemblies: A Construction-Kit for Civil Engineering Design
Reymond Akpanya, Tom Goertzen, Sebastian Wiesenhuetter, Alice C. Niemeyer, and Jörg Noennig
Pages 61–68
A Truchet Tiling Hidden in Ammann-Beenker Tiling
Pierre Gradit and Vincent Van Dongen
Pages 69–76
Polygonia Design Suite: Inspiration, Design, and Application
David Kaufman
Pages 77–82
Multilevel Islamic Geometric Design for Local Symmetry in Substitution Tilings
Jennifer E. Padilla
Pages 83–90
Are Maximally Unbalanced Hilbert-Style Square-Filling Curve Motifs a Drawing Medium?
Douglas M. McKenna
Pages 91–98
CollageBild: A System to Create Image Mosaics
André R.S. Marcal
Pages 99–104
Surface Toppling on Cylindrical and Polyhedral Sandpiles
Benjamin R. Trube
Pages 105–112
Illustrating Transport Theory Through Geometric Tiles
Etienne Boulais
Pages 113–118
Interchangeable Origami Wallpaper Patterns
Rachel Quinlan
Pages 119–126
Design Equations for Grid-Based Origami Tessellations
Madonna Yoder
Pages 127–134
Hyperbolic Flyby into a Schwarzian Expanse
Chamberlain Fong and Douglas Dunham
Pages 135–140
Using Triangle Sierpinski Relatives to Visualize Subgroups of the Symmetries of the Square
Tara Taylor
Pages 141–148
Drawing Knots with Tutte Embedding
Cameron Browne
Pages 149–156
Drawing with Statistics
Douglas Dwyer
Pages 157–164
Parallelized Pixel Averaging for a Real-time Ornamental Pen
Lena Polke
Pages 165–172
Dichromatic Steganography
Craig S. Kaplan
Pages 173–180
Parametric Curves in Color Space
José Ezequiel Soto Sánchez
Pages 181–186
Easy-to-Understand Visualization Models of Complete Maps
Carlo H. Séquin
Pages 187–194
Automating Crochet Patterns for Surfaces of Revolution
Megan Martinez and Amanda Taylor Lipnicki
Pages 195–202
Hooked on Calculus: Crocheting Quadric Surfaces
Amanda Taylor Lipnicki and Megan Martinez
Pages 203–210
A Foray Into Computer-Assisted Quilting
Matt Zucker
Pages 211–218
What Can We Learn from Non-Euclidean Paper?
Stepan Paul
Pages 219–226
Embroidery-Hooping toward the Hyperbolic Trochoid
Andrew J. Simoson
Pages 227–234
Graph Theory and Arts: A Course Retrospective
Henriette Lipschütz and Martin Skrodzki
Pages 235–242
The Ticking Clock: A Geometric Interpretation of Modular Multiplicative Inverses
Stephen E. Erfle
Pages 243–250
Curved, yet Straight: Stick Hyperboloids
George Hart
Pages 251–258
Domain-Specific Languages for Efficient Composition of Paths in 3D
Anton Bakker and Tom Verhoeff
Pages 259–266
Walking in the Wake: Exploring the Dynamics of Vortical Structures
Pari Riahi, Erica DeWitt, Cami Quinteros, Fey Thurber, Pieter R. Boersma, Adrian Carleton, and Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi
Pages 267–274
Dancing with Dienes
Karl Schaffer
Pages 275–282
Ceramic Bells: Aural Performance and Geometric Design
Robert Fathauer
Pages 283–290
Three-Dimensional Diagonal Cross-Sections of Four-Dimensional Menger Sponges
Rob Hocking
Pages 291–298
Constructing Sierpinski Tetrahedrons from Connector Pieces
Hideki Tsuiki
Pages 299–306
Self-Assembling Platonic and Archimedean Solids: Innovations and Advancements
Donald J. Plante and John R. Jungck
Pages 307–312
Materializing Daniele Barbaro’s Creativity with 3D Printing
Vera Viana
Pages 313–320
What if Albrecht Dürer had Unfolded Leonardo da Vinci’s Elevated Polyhedra?
Rinus Roelofs
Pages 321–328
Polar Zonohedral Helices and Clusters
Phil Webster
Pages 329–336
Kagome from Deltahedra
Paul Gailiunas
Pages 337–344
Rolloids
Kenneth Brecher
Pages 345–352
On Understanding Disentanglement Puzzles
Xinya Zhang, Paul Kry, and Etienne Vouga
Pages 353–360
Short Papers
Weaving is a Way of Doing Math
Patricia Bentley
Pages 361–364
Residue Designs, String Art, and Number Theory
David Richeson
Pages 365–368
Knit Knots: Large-Scale Soft Conformations of Minimum-Ropelength Knots and Links
Laura Taalman
Pages 369–372
Stitching Superpermutations
Emily Dennett
Pages 373–376
Oh What a Complex Rug We Weave When First We Color Then Perceive
Barry Cipra and Paul Zorn
Pages 377–380
Flat Patterns from Curved Bodies
Lewis Campbell, Kelly Delp, and Fatma Baytar
Pages 381–384
Fabric Models of Maximal Complete Maps on a Three-Holed Torus
Ellie Baker and Eve Torrence
Pages 385–388
How to Build an Origami Nine-Color Map on a Genus-Three Torus
Eve Torrence
Pages 389–392
Symmetry Notation as a Multidisciplinary Method for the Design of Origami Tessellations
Laureen Mahler
Pages 393–396
Automatic Origami Crease Pattern Generation from k-uniform Tilings
David Goncharov, Marcus Michelen, and Uyen Nguyen
Pages 397–400
Curved-Crease Origami Spirals Constructed from Reflected Cones
Klara Mundilova, Erik D. Demaine, Robert Lang, and Tomohiro Tachi
Pages 401–404
A Papercrafted Fish Pattern on a Triply Periodic Polyhedron
Douglas Dunham and Lisa Shier
Pages 405–408
Developing a Sculpture of the Trihelical Square Tiling
Jared Pincus
Pages 409–412
Dynamical Tilings in Industrial Design
Paz Amsellem and Shai Gul
Pages 413–416
The Oloid and the Evertible Cube: 3D Design and Printing
Lingguo Bu
Pages 417–420
Pathfinder: 3D Printing Data with Trigonometry and Chance
Timea Tihanyi
Pages 421–424
The Looping Theorem in 2D and 3D Turtle Geometry
Tom Verhoeff
Pages 425–428
Realizing the Borromean Rings in Wood with Yosegi Zaiku
Nicholas Phillips
Pages 429–432
Wire Construction of the Costa Surface and a Torus
Kodai Nakagawa and Tomohiro Tachi
Pages 433–436
Implementing Textile Borromean Seifert Surfaces
Loe Feijs
Pages 437–440
Surfaces in the Tesseract
Manuel Estévez, Érika Roldán, and Henry Segerman
Pages 441–444
Surface-Tiling Curves
Adam Rowe
Pages 445–448
Construction of Polyhedra with Tetravalent Nodes as an Analogue to Graphitic Systems
Hou-Hsun Ho, Yung-Hsi Chang, Chern Chuang, and Bih-Yaw Jin
Pages 449–452
The SunRule: An Interactive Mathematical Sculpture
Justin K. Dimmel, Eric A. Pandiscio, Gregory Ondo, and Samuel Hoey
Pages 453–456
Connections between Hitomezashi Patterns and Truchet Tiling
David A. Reimann
Pages 457–460
Pattern Gradients with Generalized Duotone Truchet Tiles
Amy E. Wendt
Pages 461–464
Space Filling Truchet Variations
Helena A. Verrill
Pages 465–468
Physical Representations of Polygon, Wedge, and Arc Squiggles
Rashmi Sunder-Raj
Pages 469–472
Second-Order Cellular Automata as Textile Design Elements
Anna M. Chupa and Michael A. Chupa
Pages 473–476
Sidewalks of Lisbon and Azores
Alda Carvalho, Carlos Pereira dos Santos, Jorge Nuno Silva, and Ricardo Cunha Teixeira
Pages 477–480
Visualizing the Kolakoski Sequence
Ulrich Reitebuch, Henriette-Sophie Lipschütz, and Konrad Polthier
Pages 481–484
Whirling Tiles
Ulrich Reitebuch, Martin Skrodzki, Henriette Lipschütz, and Konrad Polthier
Pages 485–488
(Circle + Square)/Triangle: Using Shape-Based Expressions for Image Creation and Exploration
John Nicholson
Pages 489–492
An Integer Square Variant of the Harriss Spiral
D. Jacob Wildstrom
Pages 493–496
A Hyperbolic Variant of Tic-Tac-Toe
Sarah Chen and Manil Suri
Pages 497–500
An Orthogonal Mate for a Latin Square Based on an Asymmetric Tile
Stephen M. Gagola Jr.
Pages 501–504
Integrating Statistical Data Analysis and Data Art Creation at the High School Level
Craig P. Lazarski, Kristi Ramey, and Cayce Lee
Pages 505–508
Sine Waveform Cars
Manish Jain
Pages 509–512
Radix Sort and Story Cards
Manish Jain and Neha Garg
Pages 513–516
Creativity in Writing Calculus Exams
Felicia Tabing
Pages 517–520
Between the Two Cultures: Teaching Math and Art to Engineers (and Scientists and Mathematicians)
Joshua Holden
Pages 521–524
Math + Design: Collaborative Posters
Erika Balogh and Andras Balogh
Pages 525–528
Cosmatesque Mosaic and Conformal Mapping
Steve Pomerantz
Pages 529–532
The Turing Test on the Human Stage
Stephen Abbott
Pages 533–536
Sonifying Letter Frequencies: Generating Chord Sequences from Text
Donald Spector
Pages 537–540
Designing and Building a Wearable 3×3×3 Puzzle Cube
J. Ben Gould and Jacob L. Gould
Pages 541–544
All (!) Three-Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes
Robert Bosch and Ilana McNamara
Pages 545–548
One and One Rarely Make Two: The Arithmetic of Compositional Emergence
Emanuel Jannasch
Pages 549–552
Workshop Papers
The Rulpidon and 9-Color Maps
Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage
Pages 553–558
Sculpting Mapping Cylinders: Seamless Crochet of Topological Surfaces
Shiying Dong
Pages 559–566
Kinetic Knots
Mircea Draghicescu
Pages 567–570
Puppetry, Poetry, Dance, and Sound on the Bridges of Königsberg: Embodied Work with Euler Paths and Circuits
Susan Gerofsky, S. Brackett Robertson, Karl Schaffer, and Ekaterina Zharinova
Pages 571–578
Line-Art Flip Books
Andrea Hawksley
Pages 579–586
Sestinas and Golden Shovels
Carol Dorf and Lisa Lajeunesse
Pages 587–594
Subject, Structure, and Metaphor in Mathematical Poetry
E.R. Lutken
Pages 595–600
Using Origami to Make Abstract Elevations of Polyhedra
Neel Shrestha
Pages 601–608