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