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