In Islamic culture, geometric design is everywhere: you can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces, and private homes. And despite the remarkable complexity of these designs, they can be created with just a compass to draw circles and a...

In this video, the teacher explains the importance of shapes in drawing and distinguishes between geometric and organic shapes. They provide examples of basic geometric shapes and demonstrate how to convert them into organic shapes. The...

Pascal discovered this amazing geometry result when he was only 16. The book "The Art of the Infinite" by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan has a wonderful introduction to projective geometry and a proof this this theorem. Proof of Pascal's...

Here we discuss the influential artist Euclid of Alexandria and his peerless work The Elements.

We examine MC Escher's use of hyperbolic geometry in Angels and Devils to create mesmerizing compositions.

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying...

How the Golden Ratio was discovered and used through time, from architecture to art to music. Maths - Measurement A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts...

We visit the Gardens of Versailles to look at the extraordinary work of Andre Le Nortre, and Absolute Monarchy through the lens of Garden designing.

The study of perspective in art has led to a branch of mathematics called projective geometry, which addresses the relationship between landscapes viewed from different