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The Graph Menagerie: An Exploration Of The Intersection Of Math, Biology, And Art, Maggie Barry
The Graph Menagerie: An Exploration Of The Intersection Of Math, Biology, And Art, Maggie Barry
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This project explores interdisciplinarity with a focus on how math and biology can interact with art. My main objective was to create art by graphing the silhouettes of animals. I selected ten animals from a variety of classes and habitats and used a collection of equation types such as linear, quadratic, trigonometric, and circular to draw an outline of each animal. I performed stretches, compressions, and shifts to control the size and position of each equation and set domains and ranges to determine how much of each line was visible on the graph. In the first section of this paper, …