This is part of an ongoing collaboration between artist Ellie Balk and high school students in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA. The goal is to use "mathematics to connect high school students to the community by painting large-scale murals".
In 2012, students constructed an image of the golden spiral based on the Fibonacci Sequence and began to explore the relationship between the golden ratio and Pi. The number Pi was represented in a color-coded graph within the golden spiral. In this, the numbers are seen as color blocks that vary in size proportionately within the shrinking space of the spiral, allowing us to visualize the shape of Pi and its negative space to look for "patterns". The students soon realized that the irrational number of Pi created no patterns at all, resulting in a space that resembles “noise”.
[In 2014 Pi was visualised] as a reflective line graph that resembles a sound wave. The colors of the mural change at each prime number in Pi so that the viewer can visualize a pattern of prime numbers within Pi. Located on a busy corner in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the sounds of the bustling traffic and rhythmic commuter passing creates the perfect backdrop for our visualization.
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