wednesday, and an observation

The observation, first: Whitney, on Monday —
That we ask ourselves what we want to get out of, learn from, our work.
Does it lead to acquisition of new skills? a changed/broadened framework in which we operate?
Does it help us move from point A to point B?

One way of thinking about work, is that it is construction of a scaffold, that then falls away, to yield new work, that itself is a scaffold that falls away, and so on.

For Wednesday —
Read Darek's text — Richard Hamilton on Di(e)ter Rot(h), 1961 — and Caitlin's URL, Hyperbolic Space / Crochet Models at the Institute for Figuring. There is also the IFF's Magaret Wertheim her Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane : An Interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina, here.

Regarding mathematics, mathematical modeling and 3D printing, which we discussed on Monday, take a look at the projects at Neri Oxman's website. Oxman was one of the presenters at the Smart Clothes conference at the Radcliffe Institute, last week. For a report on that conference, see Samantha Wuestman's Oracle Road Report No. 3, The Oracle Goes to Radcliffe.

Reviews Wednesday and Thursday evening; Darek's opening Wednesday at 5:00pm.