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Cool Jobs: Math as entertainment

By Dana Mackenzie / December 19, 2012

When a band of zoo buddies tears through a Monte Carlo casino, the marble columns don’t have a chance. Nafees Bin Zafar used mathematics to power the visual effects behind this madcap scene in Madagascar 3. Credit: “Madagascar 3” © 2012 DreamWorks Animation LLC, used with permission of DreamWorks Animation LLC

Magic, movies and metal: How mathematics adds dazzle to the visual world

Posted in Mathematics, STEM Careers | Tagged 2012, 3D printing, abstract sculpture, animation, Arthur Benjamin, Bathsheba Grossman, CAD-CAM, collaborative, collision detection, computer graphics, computer-assisted design, cool jobs, DreamWorks, Erwin Hauer, Ethan Brown, feature, gyroid, Harvey Mudd College, imagination, interdisciplinary, James Randi, Madagascar 3, magic, magic square, mathemagic, mental mathematics, minimal surface, movies, Nafees Bin Zafar, octahedron, sculpture, symmetry, topstories, trigonometry, Tron: Legacy

Fooling the mind’s eye

By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / September 19, 2012

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Brain scientists find they have much to learn from magicians and their tricks

Posted in Brain & Behavior | Tagged Alzheimer’s, Anthony Barnhart, axon, Barrow Neurological Institute, consciousness, feature, illusion, invisible gorilla, magic, magician, misdirection, neuromagic, neuron, neuroscience, optic nerve, Penn & Teller, perception, primary visual cortex, reality, sleight of hand, Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, topstories, trick