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Film and Video Resources
Kaleidoscopic films resulting from ‘Visualisation’
In MT206 Geoff Faux writes about Visualisation and these films resulted from a session.
Geometry and Tessellation interactive films
These are animations which have been compiled into Macromedia Flash format which you can play on your computer screen.
The Trevor Fletcher Films
Three films made originally by Trevor Fletcher in 16mm celluloid. They have now been converted to Flash format for free use in schools and other genuine educational contexts.
Trevor Fletcher writes
Seeing these films again after a gap of 30 years takes me on a trip down memory lane. I hope that others can still get as much fun from the geometry as I have. Computer graphics has the immense advantage that spectators can control the speed, and go back and forth as they will - also that one can make in a few minutes pieces of action that took me several months fifty years ago.
I would like to think that The Simson Line and The Cardioid both have ideas which people might like to recreate with Cabri. Indeed I have constructed a number of graphics around these themes myself.
Both of these films end up with a grand finale in which all the stops are pulled out. This is for dramatic effect and I never expected anyone to produce a careful analysis of all that was being shown!
As a result of making the films I have come to realise how strikingly beautiful the epi- and hypocycloids are, and I am quite certain that they deserve more attention then they receive in most mathematics courses. I hope that the films will do something to increase their popularity.
Sections of a Cube
Made many years ago on good old-fashioned celluloid and now converted to Flash video, this film illustrates the various sections of a cube.
Dissecting the area of a polyomino
An infinity of methods of dividing the area of a polyomino in half with one straight cut.
Cuts in 2D - dissecting a polyomino
Triangles from the side of regular polygons
A film from a DVD of films by Nicolet.
