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About the artist
 Mike Naylor is a mathematician and artist currently living in Trondheim, Norway, who seeks to popularize mathematics and creativity. He is the author of over 100 articles and books on mathematics and mathematics teaching and has delivered hundreds of talks, workshops and performances on a wide range of mathematical topics. |
About Naked Geometry
"Beautiful expressions of mathematics stimulate the aesthetic centers of the brain in the same way as beautiful artwork or music. By combining mathematics, art, and the human form, Naked Geometry seeks to simultaneously appeal to the viewer's mind, body, and spirit." The Naked Geometry project started in 2002 with an idea to create polyhedra from people, first from clay and wire models and soon after to digital art. From the very first image, I was hooked. As the software and hardware have improved, so have the possibilities. These images have been created using many different software packages and techniques. My primary tools are Poser and Photoshop, but I also make use of Bryce, GIMP, MathMap, DAZ-3d and others. Each picture requires working knowledge of anatomy, geometric relationships, transformations and a wide range of mathematical tools. Some pictures require hundreds of versions and weeks or even months to get just right. In 2007 I released the first edition of a book of mathematics and artwork. It has since been translated to Norwegian and a 3rd edition is underway. I'm still creating new images including video projects as well. |
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