In my spare time, I like creating math-art and being part of the math-art community. My projects involve, more often than not, spherical imagery. Including the graphic designs on soccer balls, spherical panoramas, and novelty cartographic projections.
A lot of the work I have done with Mathematical Art has seen the light of day because of the BRIDGES conference – an international conference about the links between mathematics and art. In addition to participating, I’ve been on its Program Committee each year since 2010, and I had the honour of being the chair of the program committee in 2017.
Writing
- Morphing TSP Art (BRIDGES 2017)
- Soccer Ball Symmetry (BRIDGES 2015)
- Papercraft Panoramas (BRIDGES 2013)
- with Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, The Mercator Redemption (BRIDGES 2013)
- with Bruce Torrence, Mathematics Meets Photography (Math Horizons 2011) also appeared in Best Writing on Mathematics 2012
- Warping Pictures Nicely (BRIDGES 2011)
- Using Turtles and Skeletons to Display the Viewable Sphere (BRIDGES 2009)
- with Jeffrey Shallit, An Efficient Algorithm for Computing the ith Letter of Phi^n(a) (SODA 1999)
Speaking
- The delightful geometries of soccer balls Cornell Mathematics Awareness Month Public Lecture 2019 (poster)
- Artistic cartography: Creative ways to peel a globe TEDxUW 2017
- Math Night at St. Mary’s school in Goderich: March 29th 2017
- The World Is Flat. Invited public lecture: BRIDGES 2013
- Peeling the World. Math Encounters: MOMath 2014 (poster)
- What do you do with Visible Spheres? Ignite Waterloo 2009
- Plenary talk: BRIDGES 2009
Animation
- The Travelling Salesman. Short film. (June 2017)
Art
Social Media
- Flickr
- dmswart.com (here)
