Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Geometry Links - January 2, 2019

How to make a plywood sphere
https://youtu.be/9FNwSQb7mww

118 bird species migration maps of the Western hemisphere
More bird resources:

Embroidery temari
More temari from Geometry Links in 2016:

ZHA KnitCandela Construction Process - 3D knitted formwork for concrete

Vector Snakes
More from Andrew Soper

Finding order in crumpled paper

Modular bike
I’d like an electric trike based on the form factor of a folding wheelchair that I could carry up three flight of stairs.  It might have a removable weather faring and generate electricity for the battery as well as use the battery for motive power.

How a goldsmith built the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the largest masonry dome in the world

MIT invents a system which produces 3-D structures one thousandth the size of the originals

Kokichi Sugihara’s mathematics of optical illusions

Virtual reality model of a cancer cell

Arena Arbor - a pop up dome for an interior design conference in Brazil based upon tree morphology and parametric design