Portraits of Groups in Three Dimensions
Jay Zimmerman and Kevin Zimmerman

Proceedings of Bridges 2012: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 413–414
Short Papers

Abstract

This paper looks at the sculptures that result from representing a group G of order 8 as a group of three dimensional transformations. The action is realized as a quotient of a full quadrilateral group and so all cells have four edges. We use tetrahedra to represent the regions and each cell is adjacent to four others. The model of this 3-manifold in space must have a boundary. These sculptures are dynamic in the sense that each cell on this boundary may be moved to another part of the boundary to give a different sculpture.

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