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How do you create dramatic film out of mathematics? We find out with writer and director Timothy Lanzone.

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.

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.

José-Manuel Rey revisits a scene of the film A beautiful Mind.

Computer generated movies and electronic games: Joan Lasenby tells us about the mathematics and engineering behind them.