Re: museum query

[burchard]

> I would like to know more about this exhibit for the
> Minnesota Science Museum illustrating wallpaper patterns.
> We are about to take up this subject in our `Geometry and
> the Imagination' course here at UCSD, and I would like if
> we can arrange for our students to use this software. 


To clarify, the museum exhibit only displays a few of the Euclidean  
groups; it focuses more on being accessible to kids and the general  
public.

If you want to be able to illustrate all of the groups, I would  
suggest taking a look at "Kali", a Euclidean symmetry drawing program  
for SGIs by Center Postdoc Nina Amenta (available from  
ftp.geom.umn.edu).  The basic operation of the program is to  
reproduce everything you draw under the action of the chosen group.

> Your online web software sound like the greatest thing
> ever.  I can't wait until I can arrange to use it. 


I'd welcome educational uses of our interactive gallery.  Feedback  
from that will help us provide better documentation and explanations  
of the concepts.  And the Web has the potential to provide some very  
nice documentation!

PB