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"Compounding Visions" on View at MoMath

The diverse artwork of identical twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes is on display now at Manhattan's Museum of Math.

"A lot of the art that we make is generated from devising a simple procedural recipe that is executed thousands of times in repetition," Trevor told the Huffington Post. "Mathematically speaking, it's called an algorithm. When you make muffins you're also following an algorithm. A lot of our art was built that way."

The brothers also play with perspective. The human eye is curved, so Ryan and Trevor created a 30-pound curved easel that mimics the shape of an eyeball. 

Read more (and see examples of the brothers' work) here (Forbes) or here (Huffington Post).

Start Date: 
Tuesday, September 9, 2014