Category Proseminar/Seminar

Indra’s Pearls

Written by Alassane Diagne and Ayşegül Peközsoy Möbius transformations are functions of the form \(T\colon \mathbb{C}\rightarrow\mathbb{C},\ T(z) = \frac{az+b}{cz+d}\) with \(a\), \(b\), \(c\), \(d\) complex numbers. We often associate the mapping \(T\) with the matrix \(T=\begin{pmatrix}a&b\\ c&d\end{pmatrix}\). If you look…

Mobius Paint

Written by Mouna Deubler, Yunus Sahin and Juliane Stehle During the summer term 2022, our group worked on a painting app in Hyperbolic Space of dimension two.Our goal was to create an editor for drawing, but not in the Euclidean…

Escher in 3D

Written by Helen Freytag and Ronya Ramrath. Inspired by Escher’s experimentation with hyperbolic art (and driven by the tempting availability of 3D printers in the clearly very well-funded experimental geometry lab), this project was concerned with extrapolating and printing the…