Geometry Links - May 24, 2023

 How to build a tensegrity table

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iqtxuYnjo8
More on tensegrity 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity
hat tip Karl Thidemann

Geometric abstractions of Carl Fasano
https://issuu.com/fasanoatgmail.com/docs/carl_fasano_portfolio_copy101ab 
from https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2017/01/geometry-links-january-6-2017.html
more of Carl Fasano’s work
https://vimeo.com/124064560

Illustrating Math seminar:  online the second Friday of every month 
https://illustratingmath.org/seminars
hat tip Edmund Harriss

The story of making a cyanotype geometric quilt
https://mastodon.social/@cyanotype@zirk.us/110339818284825320

Coxeter bead tutorial from Gwen Fisher
https://www.etsy.com/listing/202740541/tutorial-coxeter-bead-beaded-with-half

The quill work of Yvonne Walker Keshick
https://www.pinterest.com/pauletteza/yvonne-walker-keshick/

Geometric acoustic design
https://www.kireiusa.com/blog/tessellate-launch-5-new-kirei-acoutic-design-products/

Hokusai’s Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing in Three Volumes
https://cdn.flipsnack.com/widget/flipsnackwidget.html?hash=ftcsgji5x&bgcolor=EEEEEE&t=1481362893
https://cdn.flipsnack.com/widget/flipsnackwidget.html?hash=fti4xlqen&bgcolor=EEEEEE&t=1481363446as
https://cdn.flipsnack.com/widget/flipsnackwidget.html?hash=fdcj01ckg&bgcolor=EEEEEE&t=1481364640
Article:  https://inaminuteago.com/free-drawing-lessons-great-master-hokusai/
Catalogue Raisonne of Hokusai:  http://www.hokusai-katsushika.org/index.html

Animations for bicycle wheels - Phenakistoscopes
https://www.instagram.com/le_maille/
hat tip boingboing.net

Slow motion water videos
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr3YOlJN6S8/
hat tip boingboing.net

Building a fractal chair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8pvjEHAt6U
hat tip core77
Editorial Comment:  to go with the tensegrity table?

Julian Voss Andreae’s disappearing sculptures
https://julianvossandreae.com/works/
hat tip to core77

Geometry Links - May 2, 2023

 Kumihimo - the art of Japanese silk braiding

https://www.japanhousela.com/exhibitions/kumihimo-the-art-of-japanese-silk-braiding-by-domyo/
hat tip core77.com

Lego brick bending geometric art
https://www.brickbending.com
https://www.youtube.com/@BrickBending/videos
https://www.instagram.com/brickbending/
hat tip:  boingboing.net
Editorial Comment:  Charles Hoberman should know this artist if he already doesn’t

https://www.hoberman.com/

Gwenbeads - Gwen Fisher’s geometric beadwork, artwork, and tutorials
https://www.etsy.com/shop/gwenbeads

Cave paintings deciphered
https://www.openculture.com/2023/02/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-a-secret-language-in-lascaux-chauvet-cave-paintings.html
Editorial Comment:  The Alexander Marshack reference in the article is someone whose work I knew, principally on prehistoric calendars of moon cycles, and met once upon a time.  He did good work.
Hat tip to  @ethnobot
Previously at https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2019/03/geometry-links-march-13-2019.html
32 symbols may be our earliest written language
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols by Genevieve von Petzinger
TED talk https://youtu.be/hJnEQCMA5Sg
http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/40000-year-old-symbols-found-in-caves-worldwide-may-represent-the-earliest-written-language.html
Previously at http://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2018/11/
Neolithic geometric cave markings the beginning of written language?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230990-700-in-search-of-the-very-first-coded-symbols/

Well-bred fractals
https://www.pinterest.ca/fractalsteve/well-bred-fractals-portfolio-500/

Aperiodic tiling shape that can cover a plane without any repeating patterns
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2365363-mathematicians-discover-shape-that-can-tile-a-wall-and-never-repeat/
Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/science/mathematics-tiling-einstein.html?unlocked_article_code=ZclmZJHYxxbOyBsQoxzwBIBz5tAPG_bCitp569M_pDdSjVlrmq-mYcMkQHDstkTA2lNTXZExWKCPF27Q4ChjEYiaLAytfdrD4IvmHkgfarsG1bswSt0HAZL71WSh_y8DgILd__nKF8woGtPnrBrcuRLVyoBH81eU-A_qmctEOSG0c5Q2bHzydb_7ltH-faq61yTF91IcQQ4Of9CY4uSAGmO1M9a_zifOlqFDjc43MXeliV7FQ_9DjZF5qkC7f0LLgPtqNHSXpou21MHrF0pND6JbU7SigLCv2o2VXcZLMiq6451gZiqN4puLnBNwI1MRkIDl4yswXhJdlPIDJEQg6ud8-n5O&smid=em-share

Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim - "In 'Measuring Infinity,' the kinetic constructions of the Venezuelan sculptor Gertrud Goldschmidt climb, twist, dangle — and dazzle"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/arts/design/gego-guggenheim-review.html?unlocked_article_code=Wrhi_VmLNsx5gP_PVf9WOjO88f95ryQATYYkLoyTpQ114xaTPtjgmgVbggqU4ox9235iksUFvHTT9E_fS8Oc0sX3rJhMINjtTnRj-uaXMAcbeL06haD4oddq-tjNrjlnMwq31GVXo5yR0IG4i1ZEtm9nFTCzLDf0n0FXdgTqQDzRleeAzNOdMUkfDuU849I2A7as4tkMoNx0sY2gvTHqmzXGeqXEScOBj8XxPOor7e0_XhoJmsZP5OUY5P6uB-FyepLWwArw_V4vUGus9OT1ZOrAQxLUo091VqRO5YaAzH5doXjpGZ_FLAlPIO3oU_GeAidGBsWRhJ0blwTIyIlIu4BVrhg&smid=em-share

Beautiful example of tornado geometry
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1643565548813316096

Bing Bang 2010 - kinetic sculpture
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoYedy7JWqy/

Water droplet sculptures of Ronny Tertnes
https://ronnytertnes.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ronnytertnes/
hat tip Rich Sage

Some natural fractals
https://www.treehugger.com/amazing-fractals-found-in-nature-4868776

Geometry Links - March 8, 2023

 Visualizing languages as sculptures

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/09/ucl-researchers-3d-printed-objects-visualising-endangered-languages-design/

Ralph Ammer - How to Draw Ideas and Lots of Dots especially
https://ralphammer.com
hat tip Dr Robert Solomon

Steve Lawrence’s well-bred fractals
https://www.facebook.com/steve.lawrence.52/photos

Virginia Fleck’s plastic bag mandalas
https://www.virginiafleck.com/plastic-bag-art
More of her recycled material art at https://www.instagram.com/virginiafleckstudio/
hat tip boingboing.net

Auguste Herbin - especially his L’Alphabet Plastique
https://visualmelt.com/Auguste-Herbin
hat tip Antiques Roadshow

Origami Fashion with Uyen Nguyen
https://www.facebook.com/orbmaker/posts/uyen-nguyen-and-her-mathematical-origami-fashion-designs-fabulous-work-thanks-di/2472127673103962/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4AoN1DtH6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD7vUhdyO34
hat tip boingboing.net

Octopus transform
https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1629335912961146882

Teaching geometry and math through quilting
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/25/retired-educator-teaches-youth-geometry-and-math-through-quilting-and-they-love-it.html

from https://mathemalchemy.org - a traveling exhibit of a large multimedia art installation that celebrates the creativity and beauty of mathematics
Quilter
https://dominiquehrmann.com/en/home/
http://gathering4gardner.org
http://bridgesmathart.org
http://artifactpuzzles.com <http://artifactpuzzles.com/>
http://www.artofmathematics.org

Modular origami artist
http://fionagillespie.com/origami.html

Nathalie Meibach weaves data into shapes
https://www.nathaliemiebach.com
I’ve mentioned her work before:
https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2016/10/geometry-links-compendium-2011-october.html

Geometry Links - February 10, 2023

 The Book of Leaves

https://vimeo.com/bfophoto/thebookofleaves

Stool made from one repeating component
https://www.core77.com/posts/117950/Concept-Design-for-a-Stool-Made-from-a-Repeating-Component
Another stool with a similar but different idea
https://mastodon.social/@hrheingold/109690239934490590

Ice flower on Songhua River
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/zzvc7h/ice_flower_on_songhua_river_in_northeast_china/
hat tip Marjorie Farrell

Freaky Fractals: video feedback machine
https://makezine.com/projects/freaky-fractals-hd-video-feedback-machine/
hat tip kk.org/cooltools

Toroidal propellers - quieter and more efficient
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/toroidal-quiet-propellers/

The industrial coastal pier of the former Steetley Magnesite Works on the coast at Hartlepool
https://mastodonapp.uk/@davidallan/109774189823224114 

Geometry Study - Zen Garden Explorations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoBHp9tZag
hat tip boingboing.net
More Zen sand garden geometric explorations at https://www.youtube.com/@yukikawae6549/videos

Rinus Roelofs’ geometric videos
https://www.facebook.com/rinus.roelofs.3/videos
hat tip Olga Uskova

Medium density amorphous ice
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/science/new-ice-glass.html?unlocked_article_code=OovYw1by61OB4i5_uCPxUpiafAi3pUWmFkENPX1htuoFKIWbO3a2j6_NU174O9l9nKJK7ggJoxkj_uO6xG-tVD49FDzx4OaZd7ZIdSf1fXTCNemlgu1QestWY6zl3wWLO27bdyEReBZyc6q9TCWjHYQJipAzsSzRqt_q40u3TdAzz6qqKabwztpvNU5FGw2V881sAIoqfh6CB9P_68hSmcScpRqCPHL-WHkCtYvzbZPz0zQr62ho6bDJNeWlTrzoxKFjrfobwKKxCUqKX4aLaqq9bdvwXktt0pPuHMhZ11YFdHnQoh8br4F8FsL6_uXlfrhcr3B7BQ&smid=em-share
from https://geometrylinks.blogspot.com/2022/04/geometry-links-april-29-2022.html
New form of ice - there are 20 so far and theoretically around 300 different forms of ice possible
https://www.zmescience.com/space/physicists-find-a-new-type-of-exotic-ice-that-likely-exists-deep-in-earths-mantle-or-even-water-rich-alien-planets/
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-ice.html
Paper:  https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.104109
Ice XI:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_XI_View_along_c_axis.png
hat tip Warren Ellis and Robert McElaney
Editorial Comment: I don’t believe they’ve found Vonnegut’s Ice Nine yet though and there’s probably much more to learn about H2O, especially at its temperature of highest density, 3.98°C or 39.164ºF, I suspect

3-D renderings of unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright designs
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-what-these-unbuilt-frank-lloyd-wright-masterpieces-would-look-like-180981532/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/143771393@N04/albums/with/72157673116725982
http://www.hookedonthepast.com
hat tip boingboing.net

Natural fractals
https://www.treehugger.com/amazing-fractals-found-in-nature-4868776

Imaging technology revealing ancient secrets
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230208-the-tech-revealing-hidden-doodles-in-old-books-and-objects

Still time to RSVP for
Mathemalchemy Symposium:  Exploring the Intersections of Mathematics, Art, & Education
Friday, February 24th – 10 am to 4:00 pm
808 Gallery – 808 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA
RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/math-art-education-symposium-registration-465737833397

Geometry Links - December 29, 2022

 Bouncing the 30 strut tensegrity

https://www.facebook.com/704373947/videos/873584170328691

Adding 3D fractals to real footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbKpEOl6Z1o

Flaking Out - a gallery of paper snowflakes
https://flakingout.weebly.com

Optical illusions of brightness reduce the pupil of the eye
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118298109
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1594804375196950528

Rotaboxes - a game where you rotate parts of a picture to complete it
https://rotaboxes.com

Molly Montgomery’s photographs - I first searched her out for her alphabet rocks
https://alphabetrocks.zenfolio.com
hat tip @baarda@mastodon.green

Generative jigsaw puzzles and much more
https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/index.php
NYTimes article on their work
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/science/puzzles-jigsaw-math.html?unlocked_article_code=W9oW3SpmUcBOJvChlx-NVK95v9FTPpRq1czjTgKkDe9mtI0T0JX60CLvP1uEg--AyQHlTEmfSH4gLjpOKW7BYuVFEKVmjOF4SBLlQAtfeGgVj4qC2Ro-K8iObOcl4FZ_vJGfjMCGoHWqpYlohdeyAbX5dvvVCzlAkAHN-I22s0nwaTkCxe-1CExyxM1nqscd4_XLYmrQKA4Xi2Tn72u7mspnZl8C31J08B3UmWKN7LrsuVkn7nrIGGMtyEbBnhnXumSRddGcgIhw5dF-yxf0C2srvrLQKAx442EioBdiwopjqUQsoCHYzbjVoQIXWfeZO4ZNUTOE-rAJDpfIfg&smid=em-share

Paper marbling simulation
https://apps.amandaghassaei.com/marbling-experiment/

Octa-Tetra Museum of Dan Suttin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDDKrhLSaaU
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100050990596687
hat tip to David Brian Koski

Visualizing Complexity Modular Information Design Handbook
https://www.superdot.studio/visualizing-complexity-modular-information-design-handbook
hat tip Rob Ray as a Cool Tools recommendation (https://kk.org/cooltools/whats-in-my-now-rob-ray/)

Folding Wall Desk from Robert van Embricqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a31Td9NOfM
https://www.robertvanembricqs.com
hat tip core77.com

Mathemalchemy - A collaborative art-math / math-art installation imagined and fabricated by 24 core mathemalchemists representing a diverse range of mathematical and artistic experience and expertise.
January 4-7 and January 19-March 4
BU, 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
To learn more about the exhibition and related events, click here:
https://www.bu.edu/arts/Mathemalchemy-events/

Happy Merry New and Bah Humbug!

Geometry Links - November 9, 2022

 3D printed wood that morphs from flat to shaped

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2334808-3d-printed-wood-could-start-flat-then-twist-into-furniture-as-it-dries/

https://www.core77.com/posts/116702/3D-Printing-Wood-That-Morphs-from-Flat-to-Shaped
Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHj4Rg8z7LU

Gary Doskas’ tetrahelix research lecture series (7 videos) 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOqvAAXNHjIilhnFKskpPkbaOTc23MwGi

Cosmati Pavement mosaic floor of the High Altar of Westminster Abbey laid down in 1268
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10154664247595337&set=a.401579910336
hat tip Rita Cummings

225 paper bag hats
https://www.kiraod.com/moses/mydadshats.html

Polyhedral perspective from The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century by Noam Andrews
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/polyhedral-perspective

The rippled β-sheet layer configuration—a novel supramolecular architecture based on predictions by Pauling and Corey in 1953
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/SC/D2SC02531K
hat tip scitechdaily.com

Sylvia Rucker’s geometric quilts 
http://www.sylviarucker.com
Editorial Comment:  Sylvia Rucker is the wife of mathematician and sf writer Rudy Rucker

Geometric patterns of planets
https://www.cosmic-core.org/free/article-254-geometry-of-the-solar-system-part-1-geometric-patterns-of-planets/
Editorial Comment:  May be a little outside for some but the patterns of the planets’ orbits in relation to each other are very spirographic, if you remember that toy, and beautiful

Geometry to simulate the moon’s gravity
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1584897053770932224
More at  https://buff.ly/3HOAqbT

Geometric tent with advanced materials
https://shiftpod.com/shiftpod/

Scott Albrechts typographical art
https://scottalbrecht.com
https://boingboing.net/2022/11/01/stunning-new-book-of-scott-albrechts-deconstructed-typographical-art-plus-a-gallery-show-in-san-francisco.html

Sacred geometry children’s course - a little expensive and too outside for many but may be interesting to some, book coming soon
https://jain108academy.com/sacred-geometry-children-course/

Geometry Links - August 27, 2022

Link - a method for using scrap leather
https://beller.no/link/
https://www.core77.com/posts/116380/The-Link-Series-A-Solution-for-Luxury-Leather-Scraps

Live stream of Webb telescope photographs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xuMe5rLGc
hat tip to Marc Rudnick
Zooming into the Southern Ring Nebula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4CCOLvE1g

Reclaim the Void - using traditional Aboriginal art to reclaim mining pits and holes
https://www.reclaimthevoid.com.au
hat tip: Brenda Loew

Designing zeolites to trap molecules
https://energy.mit.edu/news/porous-materials-designed-to-trap-molecules/
Database of organic structure-directing agents for zeolites
https://zeodb.mit.edu/index

Halitrephes maasi jellyfish
https://twitter.com/wonderofscience/status/1553734725759483906

Shamanic art of Joska Soos, Magyar shaman
http://www.joskasoos.be/index2.php?page=en/tentoonstellingen/galerij

MIT Self-Assembly Lab
https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu

Solar Beach Umbrella from Italo Rota and Chuck Hoberman
https://designawards.core77.com/speculative-design/111637
https://www.core77.com/posts/116573/The-Solar-Powered-Beach-Umbrella-Wants-to-Make-Summer-Energy-Use-More-Sustainable

Graphyne may be better than graphene and has now been produced in larger quantities
https://bigthink.com/the-future/graphyne/
hat tip: www.dailykos.com

ORBIC Field v75x by Victor Acevedo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWhB8fmQP_4
More at https://www.youtube.com/user/Acevedomedia

"Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor" or time crystal made inside quantum computer
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.13571.pdf
https://www.livescience.com/google-invents-time-crystal

Edmund Harriss’ tiling installation at the Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158871088776964&set=pcb.10158871088841964
(check out all the pictures)