Emergent Patterns: Exploring Connections between Art and Science

Students and professors representing the disciplines of art, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, and neuroscience are working on research exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures.

The project, headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II '36 Professor of Art; Chun Wai Liew, associate professor and head of computer science; and Elaine Reynolds, associate professor of biology and chair of neuroscience, consists of two groups of students using very different talent sets to work toward a common goal.

One group has created software programs that produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. The other group is taking the digital models of these organic structures and patterns and layering them together to create more complex images. The culmination of this work will be on display in an exhibition running Oct. 20 through Dec. 11 in the Williams Visual Arts Building.

The students working on the project include Rhodes Baker '10 (Columbus, Ohio), a computer science major; Imogen Cain '12 (Perkasie, Pa.), an art major; Long Ho '10 (Hanoi, Vietnam), a mathematics and computer science double major; Khine Lin '10 (Yangon, Myanmar), who is pursuing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. with a major in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10 (Easton, Pa.), an art major.



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