Friday, May 3, 2024

Geometry Links - May 4, 2024

 The marble floors of the Florence cathedral

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArchitecturePorn/comments/13dkqmy/the_16th_century_optical_illusion_of_florence/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/qgsl9u/the_marble_mosaic_floor_of_the_florence_cathedral/
hat tip Monica Raymond

The Splash of a Drop - an 1895 study of drops of water splashing on a flat surface and the forms they make
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-splash-of-a-drop-1895/
hat tip boingboing.net
Editorial Comment:  I bet Doc Edgerton knew this work and, if you don’t know Doc Edgerton, you should.

The New Mathematical Coloring Book:  Mathematics of Coloring and the Colorful Life of Its Creators by Alexander Sofer
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-0716-3597-1
hat tip Edmund Harriss

Souper Connect - A modular human-shaped block that can interlock and connect in endless ways
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hbb/hbb-human-building-blocks
hat tip core77.com

Cella - a Bauhausian Toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7y9_rHrBnc
https://www.core77.com/posts/131781/Cella-A-Bauhausian-Toy

Stable torqued tensegrities from Gerald De Jong
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161035601318948&set=a.10150243650853948

Collaborating for Comprehensivity by CJ Fearnley, one of the founders of the Synergetics Collaborative
PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bapsUhFtRDSPdAW6zRBe7omBlcghz-yi/ 
Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1K18B5/k

One painting, youth to age, depending upon perspective
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5cfny9Mjc8/
hat tip Joan Mokray

Kagen Sound’s wooden puzzle boxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NreYBwzRQk
hat tip boingboing.net

Root systems drawings
https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/
hat tip http://kk.org/cooltools

Roman dodecahedron theories
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/30/roman-relic-norton-disney-dodecahedron-theories/
hat tip Amy Edmondson 

From Art to Math:  The Polymorphisms of the Polymorphic Elastegrity

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