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Dr. Martin Skrodzki

@msmathcomp.bsky.social

Assistant professor (academic track) at the Computer Graphics and Visualization group of TU Delft, working in the field of #illustratingmath, #dataviz, and #mathart. (he/him) Personal Website: https://ms-math-computer.science

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Dr. Martin Skrodzki@msmathcomp.bsky.social · 4d ago

It took more than 3,000 emails, close to 80 hours of work, and turned further hairs white, but it is great to finally hold the printed proceedings from this year's Bridges #Mathart conference in hand! Kudos to Eve Torrence (managing editor), the other editors, and the authors!

Cover page of the "Bridges Galway 2026 Mathematics and the Arts Conference Proceedings" edited by Martin Skrodzki, Kerry Mitchell, Katherine Seaton, and Eve Torrence
Nick Sousanis@nsousanis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Any mapping is necessarily a kind of flattening, distortions happen, information lost. "Not even the most expansive mapping can convey everything" or, to quote Alfred Korzybski, "the map is not the territory"

excerpt from a page in Unflattening - upper part shows the globe encircled (like the Daily Planet) with the letters Circumnavigation. this casts a shadow on a flat map - the mercator project of the globe. Discussion of the distortions that happen when you go from 3 dimensions to two - information lost and connections severed. Below this is a similar arrangement, an icosahedron instead of a globe, and then a map made by unfolding that icosahedron. This is Buckminster Fuller's dymaxion map. It preserves area in ways the mercator could not, and it also shows connections where the mercator showed divisions. That said, it's not super clear for how you travel across the globe...
Clare Moriarty@quiteclare.bsky.social · last mo.

I had an amazing time at my first Math Bridges conference in University of Galway last week. There was a planar modular origami workshop, another on the calculus of cat's cradle, a maths-fashion show, an Irish dancing lesson with numerical emphasis, and a family day full of activities for young ppl