Pasta visualization – Part II [Updated]

A couple of post back, I plotted the Gemelli pasta. And I already revealed I plotted a lot more. I kind of forgot about it, but Sol Lederman from Playing with Mathematica kindly reminded me. I agreed to feature my pasta’s on his website, have a look at his website for all my pasta’s and the code to recreate them.

Click right here to head over there!

As quite a few have asked; what is the process of creating a pasta, here is a video describing the process. Starting with (part of) a lemniscate, we extrude this shape, and twist it.

Here are some stills of the other pastas:

*click for bigger version*

Try to figure out how each of them is created, what elements/techniques are used to create certain features (ragged edges, revolving, cutting, wiggling, circular, toroidal, helicity…).

Tags: Art, food, formula, functions, Mathematica, pasta, plot, plotting

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4 Responses to “Pasta visualization – Part II [Updated]”

As Massas e A Matemática - Renda Bordô says:

January 10, 2012 at 10:52 pm

[...] “Eu me diverti bastante com a Matemática, ele disse. “Nós estávamos comendo massa, e eu estava pensando quão fácil seria recriar essas formas” com o software. Então, naquela noite após o jantar, Huisman se deu conta que com apenas 5 linhas de código matemáticos, ou menos, conseguiria reproduzir a forma da massa que havia comido: gemelli, massa em forma de hélice com uma torção. Confiram o resultado da experiência de Huisman, publicado em seu blog. [...]
Pasta :: New York Times « Sander Huisman says:

January 12, 2012 at 12:40 am

[...] my post of nov 2010 on pasta shapes, and the sequel to that last june, now, the New York Times interviewed me regarding the pasta. See their [...]
Noodles, Flowsnake, and Symmetry « Math Munch says:

January 16, 2012 at 3:33 pm

[...] taken up making graphs of and equations for pasta shapes. Sander posts his pasta-graphs on his blog. Legendre wrote this book about math and pasta, called Pasta By Design. Legendre has even [...]
Pasta Graduates From Alphabet Soup to Advanced Geometry | Walker Engineering says:

March 19, 2012 at 2:53 am

[...] But he then forgot about them until someone asked for the recipes of the other pasta shapes, and he posted those to his blog, [...]