Packaging design
https://x.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1876944504051114400A laptop stand from a single sheet of paper
https://www.core77.com/posts/134948/A-Laptop-Stand-Made-from-a-Single-Sheet-of-Recycled-Paper
Animated Mandelbrot zoom video with pastels and sepia pencil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU3TaKPhPac
Snowflakes: a chapter from the book of nature by Israel Perkins Warren - published in 1863 - with beautiful illustrations
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/snowflakes-a-chapter-from-the-book-of-nature-1863/
https://archive.org/details/snowflakeschapte00warriala/page/n3/mode/2up
hat tip: boingboing.net
A global classification of snow crystals, ice crystals, and solid precipitation based on observations from middle latitudes to polar regions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257132993_A_global_classification_of_snow_crystals_ice_crystals_and_solid_precipitation_based_on_observations_from_middle_latitudes_to_polar_regions which found that snowflakes can be divided into thirty-nine categories, further divisible by 121 subtypes.
Simone Conradi drawings "using mathematics and Python, no generative AI"
https://bsky.app/profile/sconradi.bsky.social
Geometric and other art, some intriguing ideas
https://lovid.org/
Unfold Form - origami reusable concrete form that reduces the need for both concrete and steel
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/01/zigzags-for-greener-construction.html
https://www.core77.com/posts/135375/Architecture-Student-Invents-Brilliant-Formwork-that-Reduces-Concrete-n-Steel-Usage
Robert Obier’s sculptures and art
https://www.obierstudios.com/portraits
https://www.core77.com/posts/135547/Architect-Industrial-Designer-and-Sculptor-Robert-Obiers-Creations
"The go-to source for physical puzzles"
https://www.puzzlemaster.ca/
hat tip: https://kk.org/cooltools/
Geometric cakes for Ramadan
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240406-kek-lapis-the-most-beautiful-cake-for-ramadan
Animation of the three-body problem
https://mastodon.social/@infobeautiful@vis.social/114155933549054103
Smoke ring geometries
https://x.com/stonersvilla/status/1901635534721605898