When I was a wee one, I became fascinated with patterns and the lovely shapes they made. It started with those last throes of the 70’s home-art craze - black velvet cloth dotted with tacking pins, thread strung among the pins in the shape of a flower. Or an elephant. Or Inky, Blinky, and Clyde.

I liked the patterns, but couldn’t really handle the math. Luckily, computers became smaller and I found others who like all fractal kinds of math and art.

As we start to indoctrinate our kids into the pretty and fun parts of math, I’m finding more and more to share with them. They’re a little young for XKCD raw but we can use it to give them more little peeks every day.

In the meantime, I give you the formulas for hearts and butterflies. Now to find one for volcanoes!

These are just the sites that have found me - have any found you?