geolinks: 2019

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Geometry Links - December 22, 2019

Tunable Crystal Symmetry in Graphene Enables Nanoelectromechanical Sensors
https://scitechdaily.com/tunable-crystal-symmetry-in-graphene-enables-nanoelectromechanical-sensors/

Controlling crystal growth for innovations in medicine, engineering
https://scitechdaily.com/research-into-the-mysteries-of-crystal-growth-reveals-key-molecular-events/

The Fascinating Secret Behind Crystals That Shrink When Heated
https://scitechdaily.com/the-fascinating-secret-behind-crystals-that-shrink-when-heated/

Tara Pratap Ebsworth
https://www.drizzlerock.com/hexagons
https://www.drizzlerock.com/pillar-of-light

Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math
https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-lead-to-unexpected-discovery-in-basic-math-20191113/

Six(?) sided vinyl record with overlapping tracks
https://www.core77.com/posts/91823/A-Playable-Six-Sided-Vinyl-Record-With-Overlapping-Tracks

More Edmund Harriss*
https://maxwelldemon.com/image-index/
*see October 2019 Geometry Links: http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2019/10/
Patterns of the Universe: A Coloring Adventure in Math and Beauty by Alex Bellos and Edmund Harriss
https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/spring-2016/patterns-of-the-universe/

How a Tesla valve works
https://youtu.be/tcV1EYSUQME

Flower shapes and pollination analysis
“Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems” by Agnes S. Dellinger, Silvia Artuso, Susanne Pamperl, Fabián A. Michelangeli, Darin S. Penneys, Diana M. Fernández-Fernández, Marcela Alvear, Frank Almeda, W. Scott Armbruster, Yannick Staeder and Jürg Schönenberger, 5 December 2019
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0697-7
All morphometric analyses were performed in R and scripts, they are available in a.zip file at https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1043204

Aquatecture rain-catcher
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/12/02/aquatecture-rain-catcher-panels-shaakira-jassat/amp/

Twixt - pegboard and string connection game reissued
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/949/twixt
hat tip to https://kk.org/cooltools/

Many ropes and one jumper
https://twitter.com/elatticus/status/1206312023845490688

Victor Acevedo’s Digital Art Calendar
https://www.etsy.com/listing/762297411/2020-wall-calendar-the-digital-art-of

Optical Illusion of the Year
https://youtu.be/HC0GGkNZPgs
https://boingboing.net/2019/12/20/bewildering-optical-illusion-a.html

Friday, December 6, 2019

Geometry Links - December 6, 2019

Gamers can design folded proteins as realistically as experts can
https://scitechdaily.com/gamers-accurately-design-folded-proteins-as-realistic-as-those-created-by-experts/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1274-4

Agnes Denes - if only for her recent pyramid and teardrop work but there’s a LOT more to her career
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/arts/design/agnes-denes-the-shed-review.html

Steampunk Pavilion
https://soomeenhahm.com/portfolio-item/steampunk-pavilion/
https://inhabitat.com/dramatically-twisted-timber-weaves-together-in-the-steampunk-pavilion/

Jon Sauer, lathe artist
https://www.jonsauer.com
https://www.instagram.com/sauerjon/
https://www.core77.com/posts/91294/Jon-Sauers-Incredible-Rose-Engine-Turning-Patterns

Origami artist Robert Lang demonstrates 11 levels of origami
https://youtu.be/MDwPXRy9IFc

Anthony James, sculptor
https://www.artsy.net/artist/anthony-james
http://www.anthonyjamesstudio.com

Fifth force of nature, the protophobic force, found?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/world/fifth-force-of-nature-scn-trnd/
NB: I include this because it comes from my fellow Hungarians and the angles mentioned, 115º and 140º, may strike a chord with geometricians

Portable, collapsible stool design
https://www.core77.com/posts/91580/An-Interesting-Design-Approach-to-Portable-Seating-The-Mini-Max-Stool

NYTimes on modern origami art
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/arts/design/modern-origami-art.html

Protein-Based Pattern Formation
https://scitechdaily.com/aiming-to-to-form-biological-patterns-scientists-dissect-and-redesign-protein-based-pattern-formation/
https://elifesciences.org/articles/48646
https://youtu.be/FbWf1bV_iZA
https://youtu.be/LL7wqwmk_Hk

C60 Soccer Ball With Extra Proton Probably Most Abundant Form of Carbon in Space
https://scitechdaily.com/c60-soccer-ball-with-extra-proton-probably-most-abundant-form-of-carbon-in-space/
Mysterious Buckyballs Found Throughout Interstellar Space Puzzled Scientists, Until Now
https://scitechdaily.com/mysterious-buckyballs-found-throughout-interstellar-space-puzzled-scientists-until-now/

Bone Structure Discovery Inspires More Durable, Lightweight Airplane Wings
https://scitechdaily.com/bone-structure-discovery-inspires-more-durable-lightweight-airplane-wings/
https://youtu.be/Z_ETLh-ATVI

Friday, November 8, 2019

Geometry Links - November 8, 2019

Monday, October 21, 2019

Geometry Links - October 21, 2019

Samsara
https://www.rlon.com/samsara
https://www.core77.com/projects/89476/Samsara-~-a-kinetic-installation-telling-the-story-of-oneness

Morph - robotic sculpture
https://mindbuffer.net/morph
https://www.core77.com/projects/89402/MORPH-Exploring-the-boundary-between-Art-and-Robotics

Weaving non-Euclidean bamboo
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/science/math-weaving-bamboo.html

James Nolan Gandy’s spirographic artworks (and the machines he’s designed to make them)
http://www.jamesnolangandy.com
http://www.jamesnolangandy.com/new-gallery

Fluid simulator
https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/

Learned about the Farey Sequence from Edmun Harriss at a recent conference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farey_sequence
Patterns of the Universe: A Coloring Adventure in Math and Beauty by Alex Bellos and Edmund Harriss
https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/spring-2016/patterns-of-the-universe/

Mathematicians’ blackboards
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/science/mathematicians-blackboard-photographs-jessica-wynne.html

Living Pavilion in Annecy, France
http://www.behinha.com/projects#/living-pavilion-v2

New designs for optical tools from kaleidoscope mirror symmetry
https://scitechdaily.com/new-designs-for-optical-tools-inspired-by-kaleidoscope-mirror-symmetry/

"Structural puzzles in virology solved with an overarching icosahedral design principle"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12367-3

Power Flower Phi Sci - sacred geometry and more
https://www.facebook.com/powerflowerphisci/

Tiles - addictive pattern recognition game
https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/tiles

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Geometry Links - July 30, 2019

507 mechanical movements - a periodic table of known mechanical movements, first published in 1868
http://507movements.com

Architecture of dance
https://www.facebook.com/Artisawayofsurvivall/videos/vb.492666651190118/1983376535288204/

Knitting spies
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii

Bees, Islamic art, and window screens
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190624-how-can-bees-inspire-good-design

X-ray photograph of entire sky
https://scitechdaily.com/map-of-the-entire-sky-in-x-rays-recorded-by-nasas-nicer/

MRI of atoms
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-world-smallest-mri-atoms.html

32,000 Dominoes
https://youtu.be/_I7doqtpDq8

Lisa Lloyd’s paper sculpture
https://mymodernmet.com/paper-art-sculptures-lisa-lloyd/
hat tip: jpmokray

Luum Temple - a sustainable bamboo structure in Tulum, Mexico
https://inhabitat.com/bamboo-luum-temple-preaches-sustainable-development-in-tulum/
https://www.co-labdesignoffice.com/luum-temple

Honest Logos from Viktor Hertz
https://www.behance.net/gallery/82705421/Honest-Logos-(2019)

Freequences by Alexandre DUBOSC, an edible zoetrope
https://youtu.be/zD3O4DbNxgc

Animated Knots
https://www.animatedknots.com

Monday, June 10, 2019

Geometry Links - June 10, 2019

Soap Bubble Wiki
https://soapbubble.fandom.com/wiki/Soap_Bubble_Wiki

Mandalagaba - mandala drawing program
https://recursion.mandalagaba.com/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwJhYVuDMf3/
http://blog.mandalagaba.com

Generatively designed chair that folds flat
https://youtu.be/2sMniU1N06U

Gary Doskas videos on spherical geometry
Some experimental spherical geometric construction of spherical harmonics
https://youtu.be/fg7pEAo9irs
How to derive a general solution for the trigonometric relationship between a sphere and circles drawn on its surface and some examples of the spherical geometric construction of spherical fractional harmonics
https://youtu.be/y66XcdMODPU

The origins of Spikey, the Wolfram Matematica logo, from the hyperbolic dodecahedron to the rhombic hexecontahedron
https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2018/12/the-story-of-spikey/#more-17568
https://sites.google.com/site/giramundos/

"‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/science/math-physics-knitting-matsumoto.html

Physicists Uncover Quantum Structure of Buckyballs
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-uncover-quantum-structure-of-buckyballs/
Rovibrational quantum state resolution of the C60fullerene
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/49

Cubipods, a shape to resist self-organization
https://www.core77.com/posts/88545/A-Triumph-of-Design—and-Manufacturing-The-Story-of-Cubipods-and-the-Innovative-Mold-Required-to-Make-Them

Fractals, hand-drawn by Sheldon Ebbeler
https://www.pinterest.com/sheldonebbeler/fractals-hand-drawn-by-sheldon-ebbeler/

Optical illusion - perpetual diamond
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669518815708

'Live Soap' component for interactive form-finding of minimal surfaces with topology changes
https://twitter.com/KangarooPhysics/status/1135989061976563715

Another symmetry for leaf growth patterns
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decoding-mathematical-secrets-plants-stunning-leaf-patterns-180972367/

Friday, April 12, 2019

Geometry Links - April 12, 2019

Sound-blocking metamaterial uses shape for acoustic insulation that allows light and air to pass through it
https://www.fastcompany.com/90316833/scientists-have-discovered-a-shape-that-blocks-all-sound-even-your-co-workers
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.024302
hat tip boingboing.net at https://boingboing.net/2019/03/13/exotic-topology.html

Cross-section of a rattlesnake rattle
https://twitter.com/Nnedi/status/1106606377194192902

Bertoldi Group: Materials and Structures by Design
https://bertoldi.seas.harvard.edu/

Grasshopper Geography river and forest maps
https://www.grasshoppergeography.com
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/these-beautiful-maps-capture-rivers-that-pulse-through-our-world-180971789/

Shrine of Whatslove - robotically woven carbon-fiber structure devoted to love and marriage
https://inhabitat.com/robots-weave-a-100-carbon-fiber-love-shrine-for-chinas-countryside/

3/4 icosa ice igloo
https://inhabitat.com/designers-build-a-frozen-igloo-shelter-in-a-geodesic-dome-shape/

Polygonia Design - "Rapidly Create Symmetrical Designs for Manufacturing"
https://polygonia.design
https://www.instagram.com/polygoniadesigns/

Geodesic pergola in rural China
https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/luotuowan-pergola-luo-studio.html
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/12/luo-studios-luotuowan-pergola-china-wood/
http://www.luostudio.cn/project/2/113

Laser cut paper geometric art inspired by Islamic design
http://www.ibbini.com
http://www.ibbini.com/#/2019/
https://www.instagram.com/juliaibbini/

Machine learning for amino acids to determine protein function and structure
http://news.mit.edu/2019/machine-learning-amino-acids-protein-function-0322
Editorial Comment: I remember reading Harvey Bialy’s article on “The I Ching and the Genetic Code” in the magazine IO back in the day. 64 codons in DNA to describe amino acids, 64 changes in the I Ching. The essay is available in the IO Anthology https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/io-anthology/
Some more recent work:
Defragged Binary I Ching Genetic Code Chromosomes Compared to Nirenberg’s and Transformed into Rotating 2D Circles and Squares and into a 3D 100% Symmetrical Tetrahedron Coupled to a Functional One to Discern Start From Non-Start Methionines through a Stella Octangula
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575644/

Scutoids and bubbles
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05376-1#Abs1
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/science/uhlenbeck-bubbles-math-physics.html

Sableglass - geometric blown glass objects
https://www.sableglass.com
https://www.instagram.com/sableglass/

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Geometry Links - March 13, 2019

A physics calculation of π
Part 1: https://youtu.be/HEfHFsfGXjs
Part 2: https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE
Part 3: https://youtu.be/brU5yLm9DZM

Ice melting under a glaze of ice around a tree
https://twitter.com/REDROMINA/status/1097544586560524288

"New imaging technology captures movement of quantum particles with unprecedented resolution"
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-imaging-technology-captures-movement-quantum.html
Hat tip David Kurland

Escher cookie cutters
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/12598506655/in/pool-41894168726@N01
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/12707039483/in/pool-boingboing/

Fibonacci sequence in E major as played on the piano
https://youtu.be/IGJeGOw8TzQ
hat tip Mirja Holmboe

Visualization of sound - cymatics
https://www.cymascope.com
Photography of musical notes in a bowl of water
https://www.saltspring.band/2018/11/08/photography-of-music-notes-in-a-bowl-of-water/

Dinara Kasko - 3-D printed pastry
http://www.dinarakasko.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/t-magazine/3d-printed-food-dessert.html
from October 4, 2016 Geometry Links
Architectural pastry chef Dinara Kasko
http://www.core77.com/posts/56508/An-Architects-Take-On-Cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4N35UsxRyA
https://www.instagram.com/dinarakasko/
Editorial Comment: Good to know we’re nearly 3 years ahead of the NYTimes

Mukimono - Japanese food carving
https://www.facebook.com/SurrealbutReal/posts/563139594171848
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mukimono-fruit-vegetable-carving-japanese
hat tip: Mirja Holmboe (again)

Kickstarter for a set of wooden fractal tray puzzles
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/msraynsford/wooden-fractal-tray-puzzles-2
Earlier set of wooden puzzles
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/msraynsford/wooden-fractal-tray-puzzles
http://msraynsford.blogspot.com
Michael Raynsford’s Shop: https://msraynsford.ecwid.com - including a remote controlled model strandbeest

Geometric treehouse hostel in an Italian forest
https://www.archdaily.com/912204/ppa-offers-unique-nature-integrated-experience-in-proposed-italian-forest-development

32 symbols may be our earliest written language
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols by Genevieve von Petzinger
TED talk https://youtu.be/hJnEQCMA5Sg
http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-represent-the-earliest-written-language.html
Previously at http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2018/11/
Neolithic geometric cave markings the beginning of written language?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230990-700-in-search-of-the-very-first-coded-symbols/

53 best infographics - a treasure trove and a full course education if you follow the links
https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/information-graphics-1232836
hat tip Marc Rudnick

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Geometry Links - February 17, 2019

Visual Education Project - lots of visuals of interesting projects
https://www.youtube.com/user/veproject1/featured
https://www.youtube.com/user/veproject1/videos
I got here from a reference to the circle in circle optical illusion machine
https://youtu.be/Ti1hyjLXItg
Hat tip to boingboing.net

“Smart Objects” using geometric principles: Bifurcation-based embodied logic and autonomous actuation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08055-3
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/16/artificial-venus-flytrap.html - for a lay explanation and a couple of short video examples

Das Totale Tan Theater 360º music video for the Bauhaus centenary
https://www.arte.tv/sites/en/webproductions/das-totale-tanz-theater-360/

Kamikara Paper Toys by Haruki Nakamura
https://youtu.be/M2IWTEx0bmI
https://youtu.be/lKv5gpF29uw
hat tip to @AlexSteffen

Matt Shlian sculpture, drawings, videos
https://www.mattshlian.com
hat tip: treehugger.com

High strength metallic wood from nanostructured nickel inverse opal materials - This paper describes a nickel-based cellular material, which has the strength of titanium and the density of water
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36901-3

Useful Charts - timelines, family trees, alphabets and writing systems….
https://usefulcharts.com

Trompe L’Oeil portrait
https://twitter.com/MartinM_Media/status/1092334074910461954

Bcompact design - flat folding stairs and chairs
https://www.bcompact.com/designer/
https://youtu.be/9boatDNusYI

Mr June’s hexagonal street art
http://mrjune.com

Selgascano - I found out about them through the auditorium they designed for Placensia, Spain but their body of work is high geometric art
http://www.selgascano.net
hat tip: inhabitat
https://inhabitat.com/an-auditorium-uses-translucent-etfe-panels-for-a-surreal-look/

Hexeosis - kaleidiscopic art
http://hexeosis.tumblr.com

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

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/mesmerizing-migration-watch-118-bird-species-migrate-across-a-map-of-the-western-hemisphere/

https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1065383289341403136

More bird resources:

http://birdcast.info/live-migration-maps/

https://ebird.org/explore

Embroidery temari

https://www.etsy.com/ru/shop/EmbroideryTemari

https://www.instagram.com/embroidery_temari/

More temari from Geometry Links in 2016:

https://www.boredpanda.com/92-year-old-grandmother-temari-spheres/

ZHA KnitCandela Construction Process - 3D knitted formwork for concrete

https://youtu.be/Jacw2pkDNRA

https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/knitcandela-zaha-hadid-architects.html

Vector Snakes

https://www.coroflot.com/soperrepos/Vector-Snakes