Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Geometry Links - January 27, 2021

 Starship Orb 

https://galacticastrologyacademy.com/starship-orb/
Editorial Comment:  Beautiful models but the “cosmic” vibe may put some people off.  You can ignore that and enjoy this detailed exploration of form.  Fine work.

Projection mapping on a wooden sculpture
https://youtu.be/37q1Gyqnus4

5 Mystics who created Sacred Geometry Art
https://labyrinthos.co/blogs/learn-tarot-with-labyrinthos-academy/5-mystics-who-created-sacred-geometry-art
hat tip Linda Clave
Editorial Comment:  see above, incidentally Carl Gustav Jung’s Red Book is available online at https://archive.org/details/RedBookByJung/page/n5/mode/2up

The structure of a “blue whirl” flame which burns all its fuel without producing soot
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/33/eaba0827

Projection mapping the world’s oldest sundial
https://vimeo.com/497268061

Univ of Arkansas “courtyard curvahedra"
https://news.uark.edu/articles/55611/courtyard-curvahedra-to-be-installed-at-gearhart-hall
hat tip Vinay Gupta

Altered Insects - Steampunk insect art
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlteredInsects

Andy Goldsworthy’s Ice and Show Ephermeral Sculptures
https://aesthesiamag.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/andy-goldsworthys-ice-and-snow-ephemeral-sculptures/
Editorial Comment:  Two documentaries on Goldsworthy and his work:
Rivers and Tides
Leaning into the Wind
hat tip:  Ben Pincus

Video kinetic sculpture with double feedback loops
https://vimeo.com/499428683
More videos and explanation at http://lightherder.blogspot.com
And an earlier reference here at https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2020/11/geometry-links-november-4-2020.html

Remembering Tony Longson, digital art pioneer
https://eztvmuseum.com/we-remember-tony-longson-r-i-p/
hat tip Victor Acevedo

Flatpack, non-deflatable soccer ball
http://www.nendo.jp/en/works/my-football-kit/
https://www.core77.com/posts/104333/Nendo-Designs-a-Flatpack-Non-Deflatable-Soccer-Ball-for-Developing-Nations
Editorial Comment:  There is some sophisticated geometry in soccer balls.  I remember a lecture at a Synergetics Symposium on different designs which respond to kicks without deforming unduly:  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1260/026635107782218822

50 hours to fold a samurai warrior from one sheet of paper
https://youtu.be/MtIf5WHTbns
hat tip Judy Rothstein (and boingboing.net)

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Geometry Links - January 2, 2020

 Two from Ian Willey

Electric icosahedron tensegrity
https://www.facebook.com/ian.willey/videos/10155601870342797
Folding flat-pack house model
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4vx7ga2diulmh47/Video%2009-12-2020%2C%209%2047%2023%20am.mov

Anthony Howe Fabricates a Kinetic Wind Sculpture
https://youtu.be/wQOBhFncU4k
More Anthony Howe videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/AnthonyAHowe/videos
hat tip boingboing.net

Jon Foreman’s environmental art
https://sculpttheworld.smugmug.com
https://www.facebook.com/SculptTheWorld/
https://www.instagram.com/sculpttheworld/
hat tip treehugger.com

Videos on Japanese joinery - including the “impossible joint"
https://www.openculture.com/?p=1084508
hat tip core77.com

Snowflake growth time lapse
https://vimeo.com/87342468

Snowflake macro photography
https://alexey-kljatov.pixels.com/blogs/2-snowflake-macro-photography.html

Stringed polyhedrons
https://www.instagram.com/artwork.e.v/
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Kevetsy

Making a wooden solar insolation visualization
https://youtu.be/PvcvY4ToFaQ
https://www.makingdatatangible.com/solar/ - program to help you make your own
https://pysolar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - a collection of Python libraries for simulating the irradiation of any point on earth by the sun

Insect microscopy
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/10/insect-microscopy-igor-siwanowicz/
hat tip Linda Clave

Top 10 illusions of the year
http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2020/

The blanket octopus
https://youtu.be/OD6QHW_nMoQ
More at https://scroll.in/video/953086/watch-the-spectacular-female-blanket-octopus-was-seen-unfurling-its-stunning-fleshy-cape
hat tip Micah Daigle

New Year’s animation from Victor Acevedo
https://www.facebook.com/victor.acevedo.92102/videos/10159329848313258


Happy Merry New and Bah Humbug to all!