a family of blue sextics

I'm in Chennai this week, visiting with Kapil Paranjape and the rest of the people here at MatScience (it's hard not to want to pronounce it "Mad Science"). I'll give a talk tomorrow morning on my thesis work, but I'm also giving a talk on Thursday about illustrating mathematics. So this has given me cause to geek out with surf and create some nice animations.



Of course, one of my great mathematical inspirations in this direction is the artistic work of my friend Lun-Yi Tsai. Lun-Yi recently gave a colloquium talk at the UW where he presented his work and asked for mathematicians with theorems that they visualize to share their ideas with him.