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Scott Kim, Puzzlemaster

scott kim
Mar 24, 20241 min read
Exploratorium (1990)
SYMMETRY. 180° rotation. INSPIRATION. Created for a talk on Inversions at the Exploratorium. STORY. The Exploratorium is a trend-setting...
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scott kim
Mar 24, 20241 min read
SAN LUIS OBISPO (1997)
SYMMETRY. 180 degree rotation. Turn this design upside down and it reads the same both ways. INSPIRATION. Created for a performance by...
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scott kim
Mar 24, 20241 min read
Cirque du Soleil (1988)
SYMMETRY. 180° rotation INSPIRATION. I first saw Cirque du Soleil in 1988 when their traveling big top first touched San Francisco. I...
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scott kim
Mar 24, 20241 min read
Infinity Circle (1981)
SYMMETRY. 180 degree rotational symmetry, bent into a circle, with three repetitions of the word INSPIRATION. One of several variations...
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scott kim
Mar 24, 20241 min read
Computer Graphics (180 degree rotation, 1988)
Title lettering for a 10-videodisk anthology of computer animation, published in Japan. I met the folks behind this wonderful anthology...
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scott kim
Feb 10, 20241 min read
Ambigrams — Math + Art + Language
All about the art of ambigrams — words that read in more than one way. See my ambigrams with different symmetries, and watch a live...
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scott kim
Feb 10, 20247 min read
5 barriers to spreading joyful mathematics — and how to overcome them
In his Aug 1998 article "A Quarter-Century of Recreational Mathematics" in Scientific American magazine, Martin Gardner wrote For 40...
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scott kim
Feb 10, 20246 min read
Joyful Mathematics — What it is and how to spread it
Joyful math. It’s a phrase that’s catching on in the math popularization community. The Julia Robinson Math Festival is on a mission to...
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scott kim
Feb 10, 20242 min read
About the G4G15 logo
The Gathering 4 Gardner is a biannual conference that honors science writer Martin Gardner. I have designed every conference logo since...
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