yesterday’s questions. tomorrow’s answers.
Generative art that celebrates the rebel intellect. The only force capable of shaping our world.
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae was a Greek philosopher born 2,500 years ago. He was imprisoned for claiming that the sun was not a god, but rather a fiery stone set in the heavens. His is the first recorded attempt to square the circle.
In 1882 Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that Anaxagoras’s problem was impossible to solve. There is no way to construct a square of the same area as a circle using the traditional tools of compass and ruler because pi is a transcendental number.
Mathematicians moved on to new questions, asking whether a circle could be cut up into pieces that could fit into a perfect square.
The Avaxagoras generative art project creates approximations of circle square translations based on a version of the Gauss circle problem. Every circle-square pair has a unique complexity derived from the moves needed to create it.
Every piece in a circle-square pair is identical. The same parts, rearranged to make something new.
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