Saturday, June 17, 2017

Geometry Links - June 17, 2017

Carbon fiber pavilion woven by robots and drones
https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/drone-robot-woven-carbon-fibre-pavilion-icd-itke-university-stuttgart.html
https://vimeo.com/icd/rp2016-2017

Abdelaziz Nait Merzouk tiles and honeycombs

John Baez geometry

Collective Paper Aesthetics - cardboard and paper modular building systems

Josie Lewis geometric art

Myoshka really likes Greek meander patterns

Image of magnetic “bridge” between galaxies
hat tip Leela Corman

Frederik Vanhoutte's generative graphics

Nanoscale cell image - the research is on lipids but the figures show a detailed look at cell structure

Organic geometry by José Bernabé

Birdland by George Hart

World’s largest kaleidoscope - a rebuilt grain silo

John Edmark - spiraling patterns
hat tip John Belt

Lyman Whitaker - wind sculptures

Monday, May 1, 2017

Geometry Links - May 1, 2017

Business card Level 3 Menger Sponge at MIT and around the world
Jeannine Moseley did a folding session on the Menger Sponge with the Philomorphs once upon a time

John Coltrane and Geometry
hat tip to Steve Provizer

Camboo - bamboo pavilion for Phnom Penh

Constructive Interference - static-kinetic sculpture

Ornitographies by Xavi Bou

NASA’s space fabric - 4D printing, they say

Collatz Conjecture visualizations

Nick Cave’s Until at MOCA
Casey Curran’s kinetic sculptures

Seeing Theory - a visual introduction to probability and statistics

Buddy James visualizes the Dougherty Set
Hat tip to John Higli

The graphical language for the aliens in the film “Arrival”
Painting by Martine Bertrand upon which the language is based
Editorial Comment:  The film is well worth seeing and the team designed about 100 symbols and a methodology to create more.  Might be interesting to imagine such a language not only graphically but also sculpturally as well, a material speech.

Friday, April 7, 2017

Geometry Links - April 8, 2017

Traditional Japanese wood joints cast in glass
http://www.core77.com/projects/63231/Traditional-Japanese-Wood-Joinery-Cast-in-an-Untraditional-Material-Glass

International Cloud Atlas

Fictional flight over actual Mars - natural geometries of another planet

Quintetra Blocks making of video
More Kosticks videos

M.C. Escher: Adventures in Perception
Metamorphose:  M.C. Escher

Stickbulb - LED lights in straight line configurable designs

Tetrahedral hydroplane yacht design

Patterns - short video and director’s notes

Prince Rupert’s Cube

Beauty of Science - “We make beautiful science videos”

Inuit floating maps
Seeing these reminded me of Polynesian stick maps

Geometric Illuminations

Friday, March 17, 2017

Geometry Links - March 17, 2017

Tying It All Together - Youtube channel on knots and braids

Mandala of Light

What machine learning looks like

Infographics of WEB DuBois

Father Magnus Wenninger (1919-2017) who made models of all seventy-five so-called uniform polyhedra died.
His obituary may be read at
http://www.saintjohnsabbey.org/news/benedictine-monk-known-his-math-contributions-dies/

Joe Clinton produced a 14 minute biographical sketch of Father Magnus at
https://vimeo.com/127784023
"A Visit with Magnus" trailer (4 minutes)
https://www.facebook.com/A-Visit-With-Magnus-1523593614521677/

Dwitter - javascript one-liners (must be 140 characters or less) that display pretty animated graphics that you can edit

Paleobiology Database Navigator allows exploration through space, time, and taxonomy

NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art searchable 440,955 record collection online

Eugene Atget.Photgrapher - documenting Paris from late nineteenth to early twentieth century
Article
MOMA collection of his work

Sacred Geometry photo exhibit until April 15, Anise Gallery, London

Daytonian in Manhattan - "The stories behind the buildings, statues and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating."

Friday, January 6, 2017

Geometry Links - January 6, 2017

George Hart’s sculpture “Champy"
https://youtu.be/EX90o65zGEM

Murmuration with sound
https://youtu.be/V4f_1_r80RY

Vitaliy (Volt) Agapeyev
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58607182@N05/

Mondrian Puzzle
https://youtu.be/49KvZrioFB0

Strictly Paper Blog
http://strictlypaper.com/blog/
Laser cut paper stained glass
http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2016/11/new-intricate-stained-glass-windows-from-colorful-laser-cut-paper-eric-standley/

New Kosticks video - Dissecting a Playdough Rhombic Dodecahedron with Miles
https://youtu.be/eYgpXpc0XxM

Solstice:  An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics - they were good enough to include Geometry Links so it is only symmetrical that I include them here
http://www.mylovedone.com/image/solstice/win16/
http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Ecopyrght/image/solstice.html - Solstice issues from 1990 to present

New technique for revealing characteristics of photonic crystals
http://scitechdaily.com/new-technique-reveals-internal-characteristics-of-photonic-crystals/
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/11/e1601591.full

Carl Fasano’s work
https://vimeo.com/124064560

We Want to Learn
https://wewanttolearn.wordpress.com/category/work/

Peter Kogler’s warped spaces
http://www.kogler.net

Geometric garden by Gabriel Orozco in South London
http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/gabriel-orozco-garden
http://inhabitat.com/gabriel-orozco-designs-mesmerizing-geometric-garden-for-the-south-london-gallery/

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Geometry Links - November 20, 2016

Geometric and other apps
http://www.timehavenmedia.com
PolygonJazz - the music of the polygons
Geom-E-Tree - app for fractal tree structures
Watch a spider weave a web

Rivers of the United States in rainbow colors - I’d like to see a version of this map which does not stop at national borders but shows the full watersheds of North and South America

Heat shrinking metamaterials

Eno Henze’s artworks

Echoes - a fractal animation by Chris Bjerre

Robert Lang origami exhibit at Huntington Library in San Marino, CA

Hiromi Tango, biological sculpture performance artist

New George Hart sculpture

New Chuck Hoberman installation

Composite cellular morphing wing

SOFTlab
Their latest piece is Ventricle
Here’s a making-of video of another piece, We Are Flowers

AVA, a geodesic scientific installation
Hmmm, I wonder if these folks would be interested in making a Geosphere to play the World Game.

Slide show of human-sized bird nests