Thursday, March 21, 2024

Geometry Links - March 22, 2024

 Rinus Roelof’s small exhibition at TEC, Oldenzaal the Netherlands

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10233355533329438&set=pcb.10233355537849551

Mathematical patterns of Bach’s music
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/secret-mathematical-patterns-revealed-in-bachs-music/

Sacred Geometry shop
https://www.geometrycode.com/shop/

Fynn Jackson, Origami sculptor 
https://www.instagram.com/jacksonsorigami/
https://www.etsy.com/shop/jacksonsorigami/
hat tip Vinay Gupta

Zellij, a style of North African mosaic work
https://twitter.com/BaytAlFann/status/1765319198996037662

Math Encounters: "Realizing Abstractions: what can mathematics do for art?" Edmund Harriss Nov. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD9ujxO9D-I

How to fold the Miura ori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufA1Yvdq_kk
hat tip https://boingboing.net/2024/03/09/how-to-fold-a-piece-of-paper-like-a-satellite-solar-panel.html
More from the Fold Factory
https://www.youtube.com/@foldfactory/videos

NERVOUS Systems has been doing generative design since 2007
https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/
https://www.core77.com/posts/130027/Incredible-Sculptures-and-Fixtures-by-Experimental-Design-Studio-Nervous-System

Simulation of convection on the surface of Betelgeuse 
https://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/1094283/hl202403

Naguri jig for wood patterning
https://www.core77.com/posts/130115/A-Clever-Jig-for-Producing-the-Naguri-Pattern-in-Wood

Hexabranchus sanguineus or the Spanish dancer
https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1768840123020353998
hat tip Mike Udema: "Nature is amazing. Protect it.”

Penrose tilings and quantum information
https://www.quantamagazine.org/never-repeating-tiles-can-safeguard-quantum-information-20240223/
hat tip to Vinay Gupta

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Geometry Links - February 15, 2024

 Music box Moëbius strip of Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie 1

https://wolfliving.tumblr.com/post/736992332742852608/mo%C3%ABbius-gymnopedy-transposition-de-la-1%C3%A8re
hat tip to Cory Doctorow

Bradford Hansen-Smith’s new book, the Circle: a wholemovement perspective, is now available, documenting is further explorations of geometry in folding the circle
https://www.amazon.com/Circle-wholemovement-perspective-Bradford-Hansen-Smith/dp/0976677350/ref=sr_1_21

Geek Mom’s LED light
https://mastodon.social/@geekmomprojects/111604449708190756

Trace Loops paper animation
https://www.instagram.com/p/CwYdu43q1cJ/
hat tip boingboing.net

Greek village where every house is decorated with geometric figures
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0h2sy22/the-greek-island-of-geometrical-wonders

National Museum of Mathematics has online courses:  for instance, topological crochet
https://momath.org/onlinecrochet/

Lanny Smoot’s omnidirectional floor
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/18/disney-imagineer-showcases-a-new-holotile-floor-on-which-you-walk-without-going-anywhere.html

Golden Ratio Tetra Spiral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRw6asdcpow
hat tip David Brian Koski

Some geometric models from Rinus Roelof
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10233200136004602&set=pcb.10233200139444688

Sponge spicules - a biologist friend mentioned them on Facebook and I took a look.  Very interesting structural component system(s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge_spicule
Hat tip to Manda Clair

Armenian alphabet also a numerical system for mathematics
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240208-how-a-1600-year-old-alphabet-shaped-armenian-identity

Improved one corner balancing cube
https://willempennings.nl/balancing-cube/
hat tip boingboing.net
From Geometry Links:  https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2016/10/geometry-links-compendium-2011-october.html
Cubli - a cube that can balance, jump, and walk
http://youtu.be/n_6p-1J551Y