Boxxie-Head

Category: Visual Art

This art project has been created by taking autocorrelation functions of the ThueMorse sequence and putting its values in a table, assigning colours to each value on the table, and generating images demonstrating how mathematics can reveal the hidden beauty of nature. The Thue-Morse sequence inspired this artwork, a sequence that is a nonrepeating sequence of 0s and 1s used in mathematical physics to model a quasicrystal. Taking the autocorrelation function of this sequence can help understand diffraction patterns when light shines on a quasicrystal.

The artwork is a collaboration of Professor Dr Darren Ong Chung Lee, a Professor of Mathematics at Xiamen University, and Loh Jia Jun, a Kuen Cheng High School teacher. They encourage the viewers not to take our planet for granted, as it has much beauty that is not evident at first sight.