Nina Hunt, Elizabeth Wrightsman, and Josephine Sheng helped present one of our new activities at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s Winter Tree Fest this past Saturday. Visitors had the opportunity to explore Pull-String 3D shapes (laser files are here). Here is a video of one of the shapes that visitors got to make to go with the Fortlandia exhibit that was at
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Photo Gallery coming soon. The Wildflower center is making giant bubbles for Museum Day, and when bubbles collide we get Voronoi Diagrams. So we made an encore appearance with our microscope and dragonfly wing, pictures of giraffes, mud, turtle shells. Participants will trace out the structure and then use that tracing to make a colorful faux stained glass art piece.
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Visitors of all ages selected a pattern to trace. When the underlying structure is traced, the giraffe, cracked mud, turtle shell and dragonfly wing all result in similar voronoi patterns. When you compare to the bubbles you can see the similarity there as well.
Looking for the Golden Ratio in Prairie Animals, insects and even our own arm and hands. Over 115 visitors came by this evening.
Thursday June 13, 2019. Enthusiasm for these fractal parts is amazing. Something about the stages of the Koch Fractal inspires interest, excites the mind and inspires creativity.
Paola headed to Nature Nights to present math connections to Bee Genetics. Drones have one parent: a Queen, and Queens have two: a Drone and a Queen. When we make the family tree….SURPRISE! Fibonacci Numbers! Participants made their own Bee, tessellated butterflies and used the model to see how the bee genetics relates to Fibonacci’s rabbit problem.