Anurag wrote:
A bit of an odd request. I am a math professor and was invited to give a virtual talk during our upcoming Math Awareness Week (the theme is Ocean of Math). The theme is often just declared in spirit, and as long as some elements of it are incorporated, folks are happy. I was considering discussing mathematical patterns (fractals, symmetry, balance, progressions, etc.) through photographs. Ideally, I'd love to request some high resolution macro images of subjects that exhibit some of those patterns where I zoom in really close into the image where one might think it's just a bunch of circles/bubbles, have the audience guess what it is, then zoom out a bit in the next slide to see if they can come up with a better guess, eventually finishing with the compound eye of an insect before discussing the differences between vision of insects and humans and how some math can be done with either/both to build models of machine vision. The goal is to explore patterns found in nature and see how mathematics either describes them or is inspired by them.
The ask - I don't have too many such photos. Would you consider sharing them for non-commercial, purely academic purposes? The audience is students at a large community college in South Florida. I am happy to give you credit individually after each photo/topic is discussed, but unfortunately, I do not have a budget for monetary compensation. I'd appreciate any help or guidance in the matter.
Thanks,
Anurag.
I would be happy to help since I just added a new(used) macro lens to my MF arsenal and need to test it.
What are you looking for exactly? Post an example? The goal is to explore patterns found in nature and see how mathematics either describes them or is inspired by them. ..I can think of a few "math formula related" images..in geometry/trig especially.
I am free!
Dan
Mar 21, 2026 at 02:44 PM
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