Whelp, for those of you following along at home, I did, in fact, look at snowflakes and now a small group of faculty in different departments are poised to use "Radial Symmetry" as an assignment prompt for this coming Winter term.
1 ) Stem Star, BioArtography; 2) Cat’s Eye Nebula, NASA; 3) X-Ray Rose, Richards’ Radiographs; 4) Note on Water, Cymascope; 5) Snowflake, Dr. Kenneth Libbrecht; 6) Cross section of an orange, Creative Commons
We have tentatively booked the Gallery in the Duderstadt to load in November 2020. Anil Camci in Performing Arts Technology teaches a Creative Coding course is on board and we're hoping there is some projection mapping on masks that can happen between his students and mine. Another colleague in the Stamps School of Art in Design, Rebekah Modrak, is teaching a PreCinematic Animation course which would elegantly fit this theme. It's not my intention to stomp on anyone's syllabus, rather seek thematic commonalities and build bridges between our academic silos. I also have some feelers out to another PAT course and a professor in the School of Architecture, in addition to some folks who might be interested in working on independent projects with this prompt. I'm excited to see what develops.