Color-by-Numbers

About Colour-By-Numbers

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
-- Bertrand Russell

Colour-by-numbers is a site dedicated to art derived by mathematical equations.

Things you can do here:

• Create - Make your own mathematical art using the "Equation Editor" I designed.
  
• Gallery - View a large collection of art I've created using mathematical equations
• Member's Gallery - View images created by other people in my Equation Editor
  
• Read - All about the math behind the images
• Get Help - Some tips on launching and using the "Equation Editor"

This site is a work of love (read: unpaid) by me, Judson.  I'm a quiet I/T professional, living in Ontario with a lovely wife, kids, and a dog.  I have a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science.

I have created this site to share the mathematical art I've created over the years, and also to make available the math behind the images.  I hope that this site will encourage more people to appreciate the inherent beauty of the universe, and in particular the surreal beauty of mathematics.  Mathematicians have felt this beauty for millennia; but it has been somewhat difficult to convince the rest of the world.  Math thus got a bad rap as a cold, dry, ugly subject.  Geometry has always helped fight that opinion to some extent, but I believe it is only in the last half-century or so, with the advent of computers, that mathematicians are really able to share their sense of wonder without requiring an aptitude for numbers.  Fractals, of course, get most of the credit, but I hope this modest site pushes that boundary between art and science just a little further.