Sunday, June 16, 2024

Geometry Links - June 16, 2024

 Optical illusions illuminate neural pathways

https://scitechdaily.com/demystifying-vision-optical-illusions-illuminate-neural-pathways/

Peter Lu on Islamic Geometry
Quasicrystals in Medieval Islamic Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rldnu9rNpH8
Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Seljuq Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJx8IVcL_c
hat tip Eleftherios Pavlides

Most detailed (so far) 3D map of the Cosmos
https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/04/desi-universe-mapped.html
Video fly-through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRYUt9nE9b0

Kirby Urner’s slide deck on tetrahedral tessellators, Bucky Fuller's esoteric geometry of the B, E, A, S and T modules
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13QLfgKo6kyX0j0K0RJ7W0uisB0ZyeBiK-_qbzytipck/edit

Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs by Henry George Fischer
https://books.google.com/books?id=rWlk49hUmDIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
hat tip Dr. Kirsten D. Dzwiza  https://youtube.com/@antikemagiehttps://www.instagram.com/antikemagie/https://www.antikemagie.com/
Editorial Comment:  a beautifully clear primer

Bacterial art
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/may/18/beautiful-bacteria-encounters-in-the-microuniverse-tal-danino

Twisted Torque Tensegrity
https://pretenst.com/construction/2024/04/23/torque

Rinus Roelofs' sculptures
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10233940204345848&set=pcb.10233940206985914
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10234067851536948&set=pcb.10234067854537023

The Playful Eye: An Album of Visual Delight by Julian Rothenstein, Mel Gooding (Chronicle Books 2000):  "a virtual feast of games and visual tricks gathered from around the world.”
hat tip kk.org/cooltools

Daniele Barresi, champion carver
https://www.danielebarresi.net/carving
https://www.instagram.com/danielebarresi_artist/

Folding Camping Table, with a tensegrity element
https://www.core77.com/posts/132550/A-Nifty-Folding-Camping-Table

Custom rotating nozzles for 3D printing different textures in clay
https://www.core77.com/posts/132566/Producing-Crazy-Textures-by-3D-Printing-Clay-With-Custom-Rotating-Nozzles
https://www.instagram.com/piotr_wasniowski/