Podcast
The travelling salesman
How do you create dramatic film out of mathematics? We find out with writer and director Timothy Lanzone.
Article
It's all in the detail
The computer animation used in movies and games is now so lifelike, it is very hard to believe that you are actually watching a surface built from simple shapes of triangles. Phil Dench tells Plus how he uses mathematics to help bring these models to life.
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Maths, madness and movies
In the movies mathematicians are mostly mad. Since here at Plus we firmly believe in our sanity, we're puzzled as to why. So we charged Charlotte Mulcare with the unenviable task of sifting through five well-known maths movies and speculate towards an answer.
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If we all go for the blonde
José-Manuel Rey revisits a scene of the film A beautiful Mind.
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Maths goes to the movies
Computer generated movies and electronic games: Joan Lasenby tells us about the mathematics and engineering behind them.