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Mathematics 308 - Fall 2005 - student projects
Project specificationsAlmost all of these projects have PostScript components that require a PostScript viewer, such as ghostscript, in order to see them. Many of them cache a PostScript file behind an image. Many of the PostScript files are sequences which you step through by pressing CR.
The best projects are marked in a bold font. On the whole, these were the ones that I thought did best in using pictures to explain as well as motivate mathematics.
Click on an author's name to see a project.
- Dan Anderson Shadows in scenes
- Alex Au Color Theorem (PostScript)
- Kevin Ault Modeling a plucked string
- Christina Chang Regular polyhedra
- Mike Chang Menelaus' Theorem (PostScript)
- Sandy Chang Monge's Three-Circle Theorem (PostScript)
- Jubilee Chern Cubic unfoiled (PostScript)
- P. Adam Collier Regular polyhedra
- Christina Fraser Ruled and developable surfaces (PostScript)
- Emily Fung Koch's snowflake
- Ryan Gregory Beam bending (PostScript)
- Hua Guo Short cuts (PostScript)
- Simon Ho The four colour theorem (PostScript)
- Sean Jordan Hyperbolic geometry (PostScript)
- John Knox Ballistics
- Daniel Lai Tetris (PostScript)
- Peter Legun - Perspective
- Original Postscript (a wide image requiring your viewer to adjust to the Bounding Box)
- Later submission as .pdf file
- Allan Liao Area and derivatives
- Chen Lien Schwarz' triangle problem (PostScript)
- Clement Lim A comet's tale
- Alex Lin The eyeball theorem (PostScript)
- Yan Lu Euclid XII.16 and 17
- Russ MacKenzie Euler's Theorem (PostScript)
- Théa McKerricher The van der Pol equation (PostScript)
- David McLean Sunsets
- Taren Miller Graphite and diamond (PostScript)
- Dean Moncado Determining orbits
- Kay Nguyen 2D projective geometry
- Arash Olyaei Basin boundaries and fractals
- Robin Radomski Motion of planets (PostScript)
- Pouya Sabouri Ruler and compass
- James Seaton Euclid Book XII.7
- Arsham Skrenes Cassini ellipses
- Stephen Tan Arbelos
- Andrew Thomson Girard's Theorem (PostScript)
- Raymond Tran Rubik's cube (.pdf)
- Noriko Waight Sphere and cylinder (PostScript)
- Fu-jing Yang The Happy End problem (PostScript)
- Christina Young Viviani's Theorem
- Alex Yuen Doubling the cube with Origami
- Helen Yuen Conic sections (PostScript)