User talk:Nancy
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Hi Nancy! I just wanted to say hi and to say that I used to live down your way -- I was a student at New College for three years back in 1987-1990! Angela 15:17, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Nancy. Welcome to the workshop wiki, and thanks for starting your user page. I'm writing this on your User talk page, which you can see by clicking "my talk" in the links at the top of the wiki page. When someone writes to your talk page, you get an automatically generated email alert from the wiki server, so it's a convenient way to communicate with other participants in the workshop.
I'll look forward to talking tessellations with you. That's one of our regular projects in the course we've taught at SLU. Do you have any digital scans or photos of your student's work? Might be fun to upload one. Bryan 19:59, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Bryan, I do not have scans of any of my student's work at this time, but I'll bring my digital camera to work and try to get some uploaded.
I did some searching yesterday and found the patterns and tesselations of the Kolam interesting and believe it could bring more depth to the cultural aspect of the connection between art and mathematics. Below are my links and basic questions. I am not sure how to use the Wiki edit or where we are supposed to put our worksheet offerings.
There are several articles about Kolam, an Indian art form, on the Internet. I am including the links: South Asian Art History:
http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/admin/article.php?article_id=3825
http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=3856
Extending Pasting Scheme for Kolam Pattern Generation, by T. Robinson, Dept. of Mathematics, Madras Christian College, India: http://www.scipress.org/journals/forma/pdf/2201/22010055.pdf
1. Consider the three tiles, Example 1, page 58 - 59, formed by Kolam patterns around nine dots. How are they similar; different?
2. Identify any symmetries within the tiles.
3. The tiles are joined by pasting rules to form border elements. What patterns and symmetries are allowed by the pasting rules? What symmetries exist in the borders?
4. Consider the patterns around six dots arranged with three dots in two rows. What symmetries and borders can be constructed?
