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2008 June: 2nd Edition

The new edition is now available with lots of new pictures and rerenders of some old ones. Publishing has moved to Amazon.com's publishing company, and the book is available through their website. Naked Geometry has received an enthusiastic welcome in Norway and has now been translated into Norwegian. We are awaiting the proof from the publisher.

2008 January

The video is now up at metacafe.

2007 September: Human Geometry preview

The Bridges conference was very successful. Work has begun on another human math-art project, Human Geometry, the release date to be announced. Preview some of the work at www.humangeometry.com. The Naked Geometry book first edition will only be available for a short time as I'll be moving overseas for a year.

2007 July 21: Naked Geometry goes to Spain

Naked Geometry goes to San Sebastian, Spain, for the Bridges Exhibit of Mathematical Art. Two pieces, Family Tree and Human Polyhedra, will be exhibited this week in this international art gallery.

2007 July 20: Naked Geometry and Reality

What does Naked Geometry have to do with reality? I'm not sure, but two sites, Reality Carnival and Reality Sandwich, have shown interest. A shout-out to Clifford Pickover for both his friendly encouragement, and also for his dazzling Reality Carnival site. Cliff is a great author and fascinating character.

Also on the "reality" scene: a shout-out to Reality Sandwich for this write up: http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/357

2007 May 28

It's been a busy month – The Human Geometry Project has just launched with the release of images from the upcoming Human Geometry Book. In this work, the figures are clothed. This is being created at the suggestions of teachers who would like to use the material with their students, but cannot show them artwork containing nudity. Though I was reluctant to jeopardize the classical beauty of the artwork, I have found intriguing ways to incorporate colorful clothing into the works in a way which adds to the visual appeal and also to the clarity of the mathematical ideas.

Check it out and see!

2007 April 29

There's been a lot of visitors this past week – more in the last 3 days than in first 3 months! Thank you for telling your friends, it's been very exciting around Naked Geometry headquarters this week. Landmarks: 20,000 page views on this site, and the video posted on You-Tube has topped 1000 views.

T-shirts and mugs are online! The store is now updated with a variety of clothing options and designs, as well as bags, posters, and prints.

Only 1 in 35 visitors discovers the hidden animation on one of these pages (not a video, but an animated image).

2007 April 22

Naked Geometry goes to Bridges! Two images have been chosen to be shown at the Bridges Mathematical Art conference this summer in San Sebastian, Spain. In preparation, I've rerendered one of the fractal images to a resolution of over 35 Megapixels... the render had to be done in four parts and generated so much heat that it disabled part of my keyboard for two days. The final version is worth it -- 11 iterations are visible, making the smallest elements 1/2048 the height of the largest element. The printed versions will be matted and framed.

Most of the images in the book are about 1.5 Megapixels, I've begun reworking some of the images at 6 Megapixels to make them suitable for posters. The mathematics that goes into creating the figures is fun and addictive and something that I'm steadily getting better at doing, and in the last few months I've been using a new multi-processor Mac which has dropped the render times from hours to minutes. Still, initial renders often take a dozen or more tries, and then the post render work can take several hours over a few days.

2007 March 22

Thank you to those buying books! We're getting hits from all over the world –got a visit from Hammerfest, Norway, the furthestmost northern city in the world (city = inhabitation of greater than 6000 people). We've added Israel, Argentina, Poland, Russian, Bosnia, Kenya, Columbia, Finland, Singapore, India, Chile, Taiwan, Denmark, Kampong Potong (had to look that one up), and Portugal. The first overseas order is being sent to New Caledonia. (I had to look that one up, too.)

One reader of the book comments: "I started going through the book with every intention of ogling, and find myself studying the concepts, completely forgetting the forms were made of naked people. How cool."

And a mother writes: "I'm getting one for my son. This will make him like geometry!"

2007 February

28: Lots of hits from Japan in the past few days. A big THANK YOU to the online Mathematics Museum in Japan (http://mathmuse.sci.ibaraki.ac.jp) for linking this site. We've also picked up Germany, Romania, and India. Send me an email!
Just registered an ISBN number and the gears are turning to get the book listed on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

24: Turkey, South Africa, and China. The site has been up for one week and we've hit six of the seven continents. Now if I could only figure out how to get a hit from Antarctica, we'd be truly global.

22: A shout out to Honolulu, Manitoba, and Aukland NZ! Also our first visitors from France and Italy. Hardcover books have arrived at last from the printer and Wow! They look great!

19: Visits from West Bromwich, England (home of the Baggies), Bogota Columbia, and Glasgow Scotland. No ratings yet on the YouTube posting of the video. Here's a direct link to the video on You Tube, why not post some comments?

18: The hits are slowly rolling in. Some of them are from people I know. Some I know are friends of people I've asked to spread the word. Also got some hits from Ireland, Norway, Australia, and Kuwait.
Comments are overwhelmingly positive, and even the people I expected to not like this art have surprised me with their enthusiasm and energy. It seems like most people "get it." Thank you, friends!

17: I've told a few friends and family about the site and it will be fun to see how NG spreads. The video is uploaded now, it's a very refreshing way to look at math. I may make a subtitled version as well.
The music in the video is based on a fractal pattern. You can build the pattern as such: a, aBa, abaCaba, abacabaDabacaba, etc. You can download the music and other interesting things here.

16: Naked Geometry is online! Thanks for visiting and for being a part of the launch of the Naked Geometry project. The project is expected to grow in many directions, stop by here to follow the progress.

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