Edward Vogel

@mathartforall.bsky.social

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Medical device R&D day job, STEM+Art education volunteer nights and weekends. Big emphasis on introducing discrete mathematics to K-12 with hands on mathematical art projects. "Delight shared is delight increased" - Pat Vogel(my mama)

Email header with text - "Hi - that  was a great presentation.  Do you know when you will be presenting your paper at FIO?" "paper" is underlined in red for some reason unknown to me. Edward Vogel
Book cover. Text at top - Introduction to GNU Octave A brief tutorial for linear algebra and calculus students. Picture of spiraling twisting grid
Boomerang made from an air fryer box using a plastic picnic knife. Right - scissors Upper - actual delta style boomerang used to draw on cardboard Lower - cutout cardboard booerang Mid - plastic picnic knife
Six Soma Cube puzzles cleaved to reveal interesting complexes of two and three pieces that can be rearranged, flipped or twisted to complete the cube. Text - Figure 1: Six Soma Cube Gemstones. Cube puzzle solutions with these properties make up nearly half of the 240 unique solutions.
Black tri-fold wallet opened to reveal B&W flyers about the size of a credit card for an Open Piano event. Darling Open Piano Wednesdays 6-8 All genres and experience levels welcome Come and play at the Darling Cafe 3311 E 2nd St MPLS @mathart4all
Sculpted clay shape, like a little hill with half of it cut and curved to form some cliffs. Light tan in color and inscribed with about 20 long looping lines."Maxwell's "thermodynamic surface" showing the relationship between energy, entropy and volume"
Pics wise - upper left a 2x2 matrix Lower left an xy plane with red unit vector i, blue unit vector j and an orange unit vector i+2j Upper right - same xy plane stretched a rotated a bit by the matrix and five question marks with a line and box going to (1,3)
White dude with little ears and "this state trooper don't play games" face, has new short haircut for summer and faux wayfarers on. Think "Boys of Summer" by the Eagles. Seems to be looking at his phone but that is how one takes a selfie.
Foreground - cocktail in a short stemmed glass Background - ingredient bottles. Drambuie, Bordiga vermouth Blanco and Toki Suntory whisky
A box of six donuts. Mountain Dew flavored. Cellophane window in the middle showing three remaining donuts. Upper left - Mountain Dew logo. Upper right - a Soylent Green logo and ingredient list
Template for a new blank document in MS Word with added text box above doc - "+ Describe what you'd like to draft with Copilot"
Japanese hound dog resting on local daddy's left forearm
Closeup of two Soma Cubes disassembled into three and four piece complexes. Inside the boundary they form a little clay tiger is posed with front paws up on blocks as though to leap
Four Soma Cubes are disassembled in steps to show a "double Zee" combination of two pieces has some interesting symmetry properties that help describe the similarities in the four Soma cubes.
Cat Stevens album cover - Teaser and the Firecat Young man in green pants and blue top hat sits on a curb with big orange cat to his left. Wooden fence behind them moon low in the sky
Guy in profile pulling open blazer at lapels to reveal a black Tee shirt with a large simple geometric figure
Bottle of Masi Costasera Amarone Classico sitting on a bar. Closeup of label
A game of Sprouts on brown drawing paper about 24"x36" Lower left corner has instructions on white 81/2x11 paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)
Two girls in a room with a tuba. One holding tuba such that tuba bell is covering other girls's head pressed against wall
Album cover. Picture a young man in a top hat sits with a cat on street curb. Behind them a wooden fence, night sky and the moon
Bambu mini A1 3D printer with pink tangram puzzle print in progress
Pearwood model of rock crystal rhomboid, made by René-Just Haüy,
Two origami figures on a wooden desk with instruction placard behind them. Left - blue swan Right - yellow crab
Picture of Minneapolis and Quebec City library cards sitting on top of music keyboard partly in a blue shoulder bag
Short cocktail glass filled about half way with a dark ruby colored concoction. Cube ice cube. A piece of burnt sage sits on top of glass
1956 movie poster for "Forbidden Planet." Top - title Forbidden Planet Backgrounds - dark sky with stars and planet Saturn. Desert like flat landscape Mid - retro robot holding a human Fore - guy and gal. Guy with gun, gal standing close in pink minidress Bottom - cast and crew
Snack food wrapper of a "May West" Lower right - a round chocolate covered vanilla 2 layer cake with vanilla creme filling. Upper left - a white heart with the text May West. Background - light yellow
Photo of a travel itinerary by train to Montreal showing hotel stay info. Circled in red - "Breakfast (Two Per Day)"
View of half of an Amtrak Roomette. Above - the bottom of a very narrow bed. Forward - seat back of seat for another person. Right - my fancy sports coat on a hanger With little suitcase below it
Pentominoes arranged to make two 3x5 rectangle puzzles and free build of the rest of them to make cross topped monument. Soma Cube puzzle of a Godzilla figure. Tangram puzzle of a sitting cat.
Landscape photo of Quebec City. Left - trees and houses and a castle Right - a large river with docks and shipping buildings Back - mountains
Left - open cardboard box about 4"x6"x1". Inside a Tangram cat figure, a partly assembled Soma Cube, six of the twelve pentomino pieces. The other six pieces are outside box with spheroid of poster putty Right - all of the pieces loaded into the box. Box lid is visible with text - BLOKL building blocks, puzzles and games
Sort of a close up photo of a little 3d printer. Visible parts - X and Y axis bars Print head Print plate Display
YouTube screen capture - Background - half built rusted iron sphere with children working on it supported by ladders and scaffolding Mid - grownup carrying wood for construction Fore - Close Caption - >>DEATH STAR, A DEATH STAR. >>WE'RE BUILDING THE TOPP HALF Banner for Channel 5 KSTP - "KIDS BUILD GIANT DEATH STAR MODEL"
Picture of a lady and a tiger in strong geometric forms, reminds me of mid century modern. Possibly referencing a Thai mythology story. Lady is foreground and is leaping with all sorts of weapons. Tiger is behind her seemingly ready to leap over her and attack if needed.
1 ⁄ 1 More details A representation of how people with differing visualization abilities might picture an apple in their mind. The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all.
Three douchebags walk into a bar...OK but seriously. Background - grey clouds, a storm is brewing Mid - dome of US capitol building Fore - front and center Andy Ogles, left Rubio, right Hegseth all cosplaying as 14th century(maybe?) crusaders.
UL - square of area unit 1 UR - above square cut in two by diagonal Mid - 4 of the 1/2 squares adding up to 2 Lower - the 4 half squares arranged into a new square with area 2
4"x3" plastic bag with several 3"x1/4" hexagonal glass rods. Bag text in black sharpie Dilithium Xtals 4/1/49 EPV QTY-4 4 Scotty?
Gene Shalit looking good at 100. Head shot of man with heavy side burns and moustache
Tiny flowers sitting in a tiny wood spoon next to a tiny jar of honey
Maroon background with this text(as written by presumably well educated humans(maybe?) - Leave a Future WE ARETHE ENERGY FOR CHANGE Weare therestles power that improves livesfor Minnesotans, the nation and the world. The University of Minnesota's ambitions must exceed all expectations. Our objectives must be greater than anything we have already accomplishes. We are the vital force that turns learning into action, exploration into outcomes and achievements into value.
some pasted text with teen tiny popup very nearby with the word "Paste" in it.
Interior photo of just inside the front door. Features a cabinet about 4 feet tall by 3 feet wide with a clown's face and balloons painted on it.
Interior photo of just inside the front door. Features a cabinet about 4 feet tall by 3 feet wide with a clown's face and balloons painted on it.
Left - Pic - human(?) left hand open, holding a pair of glasses with a "steampunk" sort of aesthetic -"paint it a brass sort of color and glue some gears on it" Right - Text - Self-Adjusting Glasses 2025 New Self-Adjusting Lens Technology Replaces All Seniors Glasses in 2025 New Tech Discovery
Crayon sketch on 9x12 paper. Top left - purple sun Top right - two blue horses Bottom right - one blue horse Center - horizon line lower splitting black field from upper blue field
Blue plate with spoon and tiramisu like dessert with a couple bites cut from it
Black circle with text - No longer posting. Find me on Bluesky @mathartforall Cercle noir avec texte - Je ne publie plus. Retrouvez-moi sur Bluesky @mathartforall
Magazine cover. Top Left - circuit cellar ink . The computer applications journal Cover pic - rolling hills of green grass with a winding road. Foreground a lone suitcase with travel stickers
Upper - helicarrier from Marvel film "Winter Soldier" - looks like an aircraft carrier ship with added quad coper props and lots more guns Lower - Red Skull from behind with two arms raised to a huge crowd of supporters.