We take our computers so much for granted these days that we usually don’t even stop to ask ourselves how they work. But no more than a little over half a century ago, digital computers did not exist. How were complex and tedious computations to be carried out? […]

As most of you probably know, matrices are a critical part of the representation of sprites and other images on computer screens. This is because most of the interesting things that we want to do with images are simple linear transformations, such as reflections, rotations, projections, and dilations. In essence, the transformation is […]

According to www.polynomiography.com, polynomiography is the “fusion of art, mathematics, and computer science.” Touted as a visual method for finding the zeros of polynomials, it is based off both fractal and non-fractal images. While we learned in class that fractals can indeed arise from iterations of Newton’s method, the art of polynomiography […]