Bees “shimmering"
Editorial Comment: Bees and ants and termites are amazing, with complex social organizations we can learn a lot from. My notes to Honeybee Democracy are available athttp://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2018/05/honeybee-democracy.html and here’s a link to an architect who is using termite mounds as a model for passively cooling buildings in Africa and Australia: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-termites-inspired-mick-pearces-green-buildings
"‘abstraction & reasoning corpus’ (arc) presents a fictional training set for agent reasoning testing for concepts such as hierarchy, object permanence, and symmetry. inspired by the work of ai researcher françois chollet, the work plays on ideas relating to pattern recognition in human and machine learning.”
https://left.gallery/work/abstraction-and-reasoning-corpus
http://cavvia.net/039/ARC/
Event of Vibration
https://www.facebook.com/howlinbuddha/posts/10164470271945541
https://www.facebook.com/Contemporary-Art-Japan-美術と街巡り-112670990258854/
https://www.core77.com/posts/102887/Using-a-Specially-Designed-Vibrating-Tabletop-to-Create-Live-Art
hat tip Marjorie Farrell
Whale shark patterns
https://twitter.com/tveitdal/status/1325006707773353984
Jeremy Mayer’s typewriter sculptures
https://jeremymayer.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=18688&Akey=23SVCF6T&ajx=1
https://twitter.com/JeremyMayer
https://www.instagram.com/jeremymayer/
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/jeremy-mayer-typewriter-sculptures/
3-D Cellular Automata
https://youtu.be/dQJ5aEsP6Fs
Victor Acevedo 2021 wall calendar
https://www.etsy.com/listing/911505661/wall-calendars?ref=shop_home_active_1&fbclid=IwAR0l2Tnv_r1jPBfxJHmXmVa78276b64MnshJhG1XP3-64D-uBcetYh2wyS0
Water in an acoustic field responding to harmonics
https://www.facebook.com/jain108academy/videos/1120004248387519
Voxels - modular metamaterials from MIT
https://news.mit.edu/2020/versatile-building-blocks-1118
hat tip Vinay Gupta
And another building system: Extensor Construction Kit
http://www.mathmechs.com/
hat tip Edmund Harriss
Geobender - geometric toys
https://www.geobender.de/us/shop-2/?v=3a52f3c22ed6
https://www.tiktok.com/@geobender
Impossible Dominoes - how to make dominoes that bounce back up (you need two)
https://youtu.be/JlgAv1AYfBc
141 Optical Illusions
https://michaelbach.de/ot/
hat tip boingboing.net
Mathematical Art by Henry Segerman
https://www.shapeways.com/shops/henryseg
hat tip Kevin Kelly
A tetrahedron divided into thirds and fits inside an octahedron
https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-tetrahedron-divided-into-thirds-that.html
Editorial Comment: I’m working on the interrelations of the Platonic Solids again these days
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