Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Geometry Links - November 13, 2018

Hypercube -  a hi-tech work of art that simulates the appearance of a near infinite amount of light and space, contained within the finite volume of a sleek and futuristic frame
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperspacelighting/the-hypercube

Neolithic geometric cave markings the beginning of written language?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230990-700-in-search-of-the-very-first-coded-symbols/

Nuclear pasta - the hardest known substance in the universe
https://scitechdaily.com/the-hardest-known-substance-in-the-universe-nuclear-pasta/
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.132701

The Great Pyramid of Giza can focus electromagnetic energy at resonant wavelengths. Physicists now to copy the structure at nanoscale for solar and other application.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-can-focus-electromagnetic-energy/
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5026556

Quantum network architecture and teleportation through a quantum gate
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-demonstrate-teleportation-of-a-quantum-gate/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0470-y

Modular canopy reconfigurable by drone
https://vimeo.com/265752944

Stabilimentum or web decoration by some species of spiders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_decoration
https://www.treehugger.com/animals/these-spiders-mysteriously-decorate-their-webs-photos.html

Noah Deledda’s aluminum can sculptures
https://youtu.be/tilw2vZYPLM
https://www.instagram.com/noahdeledda/

Triply Ambiguous Object - 2018 optical illusion of the year
https://youtu.be/iA5zBZB2dng

Op art book covers animated
https://vimeo.com/297671782

The shape of a symmetrical wormhole
https://scitechdaily.com/physicist-details-the-shape-of-a-symmetrical-wormhole/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931830563X?via%3Dihub

Music Animation Machine
http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin
https://www.youtube.com/user/smalin/videos
http://www.musanim.com/watch_mam.html

Sunday, October 7, 2018

Geometry Links - October 7, 2018

Tyler Thrasher’s crystallized art
http://www.tylerthrasher.com/crystallized/
https://www.instagram.com/tylerthrasherart/
hat tip to Bethany Leach Parmley

Alice Potts’ crystal projects using body fluids
http://www.projects.alicepotts.com/
https://www.instagram.com/alicenapotts/
Editorial Comment:  Do I detect a trend?

Japanese “mon” designs
https://www.facebook.com/NHKten5/videos/423021054858673/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)

Carlo Sequin talks through platonic solids and regular polytopes in higher dimensions
https://youtu.be/2s4TqVAbfz4
Extra footage (Hypernom):  https://youtu.be/unC0Y3kv0Yk
More videos with with Carlo:  http://bit.ly/carlo_videos
hat tip to Werner Grundl

Hungarian shamanic paintings by Joska Soos
http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/soosentities.htm
much more at http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/soosintro.htm

Julian Voss-Andreae - disappearing statues and more
http://julianvossandreae.com/works/

Algorithmic art
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet

Medieval fantasy city generator
https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator

Hydrophytes - 3D designed plants for the future, a Master’s thesis by Nicole Hone
https://vimeo.com/286637303
http://nicolehone.com
https://www.treehugger.com/culture/4d-printed-hydrophytes-nicole-hone.html

7-Directional Space Filling Polyhedra from JJKostick
https://sketchfab.com/models/d0f61c7e6f52481ba646b95a58bab4be
https://sketchfab.com/jjkostick

Deployable, three-dimensional (3D) origami-based solar steam generator capable of near full utilization of solar energy using Miura-ori tessellations
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.8b07150
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/24/origami-design-boosts-efficiency-of-solar-water-purifier/

Wooden Ellipse Jig
https://youtu.be/i8ktMxuJhEw

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Geometry Links - August 14, 2018

Octonian Math and Fundamental Physics

Soma Cube - 3D puzzle

Ambigrams - playing with the form of words

Anni Albers Notebook 1970-1980 - her only known notebook of fascinating weaving patterns and designs

Esteban Diacono - "Animation experiments and small pictures of great moments"

Gary Doskas - magnetic modules for a regular geometric modeling system
Editorial Comment:  This is incredibly beautiful and useful work.  Gary Doskas has done something marvelous and (naturally) magical.
PS:  Gary is trying to identify this shape which contains 4 overlapping rhombic dodecahedra

If you recognize it, please contact Gary Doskas or me so that I can refer the information to him.  I already pointed him to George Hart’s Encyclopedia of Polyhedra:  

Scutoid

Disney Research on Mechanical Characterization of Structured Sheet Materials or Isohedral Tessellations

Theo Jansen’s 2018 Strandbeests
BBC on Jansen’s collaboration with NASA

Origami hand made from paper

Kagkatikas Secret - transforming a Greek ruin on Paxos
Flickering Lights

Chladni patterns in color

Dogs herding sheep


Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Geometry Links - July 24, 2018

Louis Henry Sullivan's System of Architectural Ornament is a beautiful book by a pioneering architect
https://www.pinterest.com/gilesphillips/louis-sullivan-system-of-architectural-ornament/

Laslit Supernova shape-shifting chandelier

Mary Wagner’s spirographic drawings

BlocksCAD - “use coding, math, & design to create 3D models.  Best for 3rd - 10th grade."

John Kostick:  "These are some models of interesting but not very well known space filling arrays that I've been working on rendering.  Some of this goes back 50 years or so, some is more recent."
https://sketchfab.com/models/8fb95f8e5cfb4ff8b5f7b2915881140a
https://sketchfab.com/models/79704820cbde4b7189cd9d6d42473e40
https://sketchfab.com/models/57bf4aef7d4d4099b99d62635dc02a13

Telemetron - a dodecahedral musical instrument designed for zero gravity

2-D 3-D art by Aakash Nihalani
Balancing Act - currently on Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway

A twitter bot creating a random 2-dimensional tiling once a day, by @roice713

Comparing City Street Orientations
City Street Orientations around the World
Bonus:  Jefferson Grid
https://www.instagram.com/the.jefferson.grid/

Nano-kirigami to Manipulate Light

CGI Kaleidocycles

Sphericons
Editorial Comment:  I wonder if you can combine sphericons with Celtic stones or rattlebacks:


Saturday, June 30, 2018

Geometry Links - June 30, 2018

Peace for Triple Piano - by Vi Hart
Making of video

Visual Reference Guide for Wood Joints

Geomorphic forms inspired by “urban fragments” of Seoul

3D printed magnetic shapeshifters

Shape-shifting flying robot
https://youtu.be/zMi5v2KznU4
Editorial Comment:  I for one welcome our shape-shifting flying robot overlords.

Self-assembling dodecahedral silica nano-cage
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05529-8

Rogan Brown’s paper sculpture - biomorphic forms from corals to human microbiome

Vortex rings collisions

Fun with a carbon arc lamp

Scott Albrecht’s typographic deconstructions

Dichroic and other glass art by Chris Wood

Victor Acevedo has launched an Indiegogo campaign for a book on his work
"ACEVEDO in Context : will be an illustrated chronology about my life & art with an emphasis on the art. It will issued as an ebook and if the campaign goal is reached as a hardcopy print book as well. It will cover my work beginning in traditional media (painting & drawing) from 1977–85 to digital media from 1983–2018. It will include commissioned critical essays by two well-known art historians. All editions are projected to contain 250 pages including 175 images.”
Here is a link to the pitch video as it lives on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=ftNyWh4-SzI
Editorial Comment:  Victor is a long-time member of the Synergetics Collaborative and has videotaped many of the meetings and symposia.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Geometry Links - June 5, 2018

Kirigami for better bandages
https://scitechdaily.com/kirigami-inspires-better-bandages-for-deformable-regions-of-the-body/

“Breath/ing” sculpture purifies air with nanomolecule fabric

Polyhedral Knots and Links (Joe Clinton)

Rhythm of Math: kinesiological method of teaching mathematics

Visoth Kakvei’s art - the floral & optical illusions especially

Lisa Lloyd’s papercraft art
hat tip:  boingboing.net

Animated explosion from Disney

ACID EYE 360 VR - Psychedelic Deep Dream Fractal Trip 4K

Journal of Molecular Modeling - reporting on “'hardcore' modeling… with a particular focus on three-dimensional modeling"
HS student George Wang’s proof of carbon’s seven possible bonds

Paper flower artist Tiffanie Turner

Wooden maps of Greenland
hat tip:  Chris Hager

Animation of crystal growing

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Geometry Links - April 10, 2018

Geometric pies (π’s?)
https://www.lokokitchen.com
Editorial Comment:  Previously mentioned in http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2017/12/

Lightweight Wooden Deployable Structure

NIH 3D Print Exchange:  "a unique set of tools to create and share 3D-printable models related to biomedical science.”  Make your own molecule models

Orphan Geometry Toys?
Facets:  the building blocks of 3D geometry
RHOMB) Blocks

Felicia Thrash’s Stellations - focusing on the dodecahedron

Stroboscopic Easter Eggs

Kagome metal - a new quantum electronic material

Gabriel Schama’s laser cut mandalas

3D Simulation of Melting Snowflakes

Folding paper airplanes

Frank Chester’s chestahedron (heptahedron) and its dual, decalia (“dekatreísahedron” - 13 sided polyhedron

My notes to The King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Geometry Links - March 17, 2018

Weaving Machine - dance with 640 “Kinetic Lights"
https://youtu.be/Fg4NwsdxngY

Ekaterina Lukasheva’s flower origami and tessellations

Olafur Eliasson’s Reality Projector

Making identical snowflakes

The Flower Game - draw flowers with your arrow buttons

Malleable metal sculptures by Erika Rejka
Editorial Comment:  reminds me of a Peano curve

The Flying Mosque

Tensegrity for Burning Man
hat tip to Joe Clinton

Neural net produces knitting patterns and knitters knit them

Elusive Cube videos

“Late-type" star-forming galaxy animation

Shona Wilson and natural mandalas

Wednesday, January 31, 2018