Geometry Links - March 13, 2019

A physics calculation of π
Part 1: https://youtu.be/HEfHFsfGXjs
Part 2: https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE
Part 3: https://youtu.be/brU5yLm9DZM

Ice melting under a glaze of ice around a tree
https://twitter.com/REDROMINA/status/1097544586560524288

"New imaging technology captures movement of quantum particles with unprecedented resolution"
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-imaging-technology-captures-movement-quantum.html
Hat tip David Kurland

Escher cookie cutters
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/12598506655/in/pool-41894168726@N01
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/12707039483/in/pool-boingboing/

Fibonacci sequence in E major as played on the piano
https://youtu.be/IGJeGOw8TzQ
hat tip Mirja Holmboe

Visualization of sound - cymatics
https://www.cymascope.com
Photography of musical notes in a bowl of water
https://www.saltspring.band/2018/11/08/photography-of-music-notes-in-a-bowl-of-water/

Dinara Kasko - 3-D printed pastry 
http://www.dinarakasko.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/t-magazine/3d-printed-food-dessert.html
from October 4, 2016 Geometry Links
Architectural pastry chef Dinara Kasko
http://www.core77.com/posts/56508/An-Architects-Take-On-Cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4N35UsxRyA
https://www.instagram.com/dinarakasko/
Editorial Comment:  Good to know we’re nearly 3 years ahead of the NYTimes

Mukimono - Japanese food carving
https://www.facebook.com/SurrealbutReal/posts/563139594171848
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mukimono-fruit-vegetable-carving-japanese
hat tip:  Mirja Holmboe (again)

Kickstarter for a set of wooden fractal tray puzzles
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/msraynsford/wooden-fractal-tray-puzzles-2
Earlier set of wooden puzzles
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/msraynsford/wooden-fractal-tray-puzzles
http://msraynsford.blogspot.com
Michael Raynsford’s Shop:  https://msraynsford.ecwid.com - including a remote controlled model strandbeest

Geometric treehouse hostel in an Italian forest
https://www.archdaily.com/912204/ppa-offers-unique-nature-integrated-experience-in-proposed-italian-forest-development

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/

53 best infographics - a treasure trove and a full course education if you follow the links
https://www.creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/information-graphics-1232836
hat tip Marc Rudnick

Geometry Links - February 17, 2019

Visual Education Project - lots of visuals of interesting projects
https://www.youtube.com/user/veproject1/featured
https://www.youtube.com/user/veproject1/videos
I got here from a reference to the circle in circle optical illusion machine
https://youtu.be/Ti1hyjLXItg
Hat tip to boingboing.net

“Smart Objects” using geometric principles:  Bifurcation-based embodied logic and autonomous actuation 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08055-3
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/16/artificial-venus-flytrap.html - for a lay explanation and a couple of short video examples

Das Totale Tan Theater 360º music video for the Bauhaus centenary
https://www.arte.tv/sites/en/webproductions/das-totale-tanz-theater-360/

Kamikara Paper Toys by Haruki Nakamura
https://youtu.be/M2IWTEx0bmI
https://youtu.be/lKv5gpF29uw
hat tip to @AlexSteffen

Matt Shlian sculpture, drawings, videos
https://www.mattshlian.com
hat tip:  treehugger.com

High strength metallic wood from nanostructured nickel inverse opal materials - This paper describes a nickel-based cellular material, which has the strength of titanium and the density of water
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36901-3

Useful Charts - timelines, family trees, alphabets and writing systems….
https://usefulcharts.com

Trompe L’Oeil portrait
https://twitter.com/MartinM_Media/status/1092334074910461954

Bcompact design - flat folding stairs and chairs
https://www.bcompact.com/designer/
https://youtu.be/9boatDNusYI

Mr June’s hexagonal street art
http://mrjune.com

Selgascano - I found out about them through the auditorium they designed for Placensia, Spain but their body of work is high geometric art
http://www.selgascano.net
hat tip: inhabitat
https://inhabitat.com/an-auditorium-uses-translucent-etfe-panels-for-a-surreal-look/

Hexeosis - kaleidiscopic art 
http://hexeosis.tumblr.com

Geometry Links - January 2, 2019

How to make a plywood sphere

https://youtu.be/9FNwSQb7mww

118 bird species migration maps of the Western hemisphere

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/mesmerizing-migration-watch-118-bird-species-migrate-across-a-map-of-the-western-hemisphere/

https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1065383289341403136

More bird resources:

http://birdcast.info/live-migration-maps/

https://ebird.org/explore

Embroidery temari

https://www.etsy.com/ru/shop/EmbroideryTemari

https://www.instagram.com/embroidery_temari/

More temari from Geometry Links in 2016:

https://www.boredpanda.com/92-year-old-grandmother-temari-spheres/

ZHA KnitCandela Construction Process - 3D knitted formwork for concrete

https://youtu.be/Jacw2pkDNRA

https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/knitcandela-zaha-hadid-architects.html

Vector Snakes

https://www.coroflot.com/soperrepos/Vector-Snakes

More from Andrew Soper

https://www.coroflot.com/soperrepos/portfolio

Finding order in crumpled paper

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/science/crumple-paper-math.html

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/smrlab/paper_crumpling

Modular bike

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeycycle/monkeycycle-the-modular-bike-that-grows-with-your

I’d like an electric trike based on the form factor of a folding wheelchair that I could carry up three flight of stairs.  It might have a removable weather faring and generate electricity for the battery as well as use the battery for motive power.

How a goldsmith built the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, the largest masonry dome in the world

https://youtu.be/_IOPlGPQPuM

MIT invents a system which produces 3-D structures one thousandth the size of the originals

http://news.mit.edu/2018/shrink-any-object-nanoscale-1213

Kokichi Sugihara’s mathematics of optical illusions

http://www.isc.meiji.ac.jp/~kokichis/Welcomee.html

https://youtu.be/qZGDXoWd_M8

Virtual reality model of a cancer cell

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46527235

https://youtu.be/PavWaFWeNII

Arena Arbor - a pop up dome for an interior design conference in Brazil based upon tree morphology and parametric design

https://www.archdaily.com/906282/arena-arbor-selvagen

https://inhabitat.com/selvagen-designs-a-geodesic-dome-pavilion-inspired-by-a-tree/

Geometry Links - November 13, 2018

Hypercube -  a hi-tech work of art that simulates the appearance of a near infinite amount of light and space, contained within the finite volume of a sleek and futuristic frame
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperspacelighting/the-hypercube

Neolithic geometric cave markings the beginning of written language?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230990-700-in-search-of-the-very-first-coded-symbols/

Nuclear pasta - the hardest known substance in the universe
https://scitechdaily.com/the-hardest-known-substance-in-the-universe-nuclear-pasta/
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.132701

The Great Pyramid of Giza can focus electromagnetic energy at resonant wavelengths. Physicists now to copy the structure at nanoscale for solar and other application.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-can-focus-electromagnetic-energy/
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5026556

Quantum network architecture and teleportation through a quantum gate
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-demonstrate-teleportation-of-a-quantum-gate/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0470-y

Modular canopy reconfigurable by drone
https://vimeo.com/265752944

Stabilimentum or web decoration by some species of spiders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_decoration
https://www.treehugger.com/animals/these-spiders-mysteriously-decorate-their-webs-photos.html

Noah Deledda’s aluminum can sculptures
https://youtu.be/tilw2vZYPLM
https://www.instagram.com/noahdeledda/

Triply Ambiguous Object - 2018 optical illusion of the year
https://youtu.be/iA5zBZB2dng

Op art book covers animated
https://vimeo.com/297671782

The shape of a symmetrical wormhole
https://scitechdaily.com/physicist-details-the-shape-of-a-symmetrical-wormhole/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931830563X?via%3Dihub

Music Animation Machine
http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin
https://www.youtube.com/user/smalin/videos
http://www.musanim.com/watch_mam.html

Geometry Links - October 7, 2018

Tyler Thrasher’s crystallized art
http://www.tylerthrasher.com/crystallized/
https://www.instagram.com/tylerthrasherart/
hat tip to Bethany Leach Parmley

Alice Potts’ crystal projects using body fluids
http://www.projects.alicepotts.com/
https://www.instagram.com/alicenapotts/
Editorial Comment:  Do I detect a trend?

Japanese “mon” designs
https://www.facebook.com/NHKten5/videos/423021054858673/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)

Carlo Sequin talks through platonic solids and regular polytopes in higher dimensions
https://youtu.be/2s4TqVAbfz4
Extra footage (Hypernom):  https://youtu.be/unC0Y3kv0Yk
More videos with with Carlo:  http://bit.ly/carlo_videos
hat tip to Werner Grundl

Hungarian shamanic paintings by Joska Soos
http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/soosentities.htm
much more at http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/soosintro.htm

Julian Voss-Andreae - disappearing statues and more
http://julianvossandreae.com/works/

Algorithmic art
https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet

Medieval fantasy city generator
https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator

Hydrophytes - 3D designed plants for the future, a Master’s thesis by Nicole Hone
https://vimeo.com/286637303
http://nicolehone.com
https://www.treehugger.com/culture/4d-printed-hydrophytes-nicole-hone.html

7-Directional Space Filling Polyhedra from JJKostick
https://sketchfab.com/models/d0f61c7e6f52481ba646b95a58bab4be
https://sketchfab.com/jjkostick

Deployable, three-dimensional (3D) origami-based solar steam generator capable of near full utilization of solar energy using Miura-ori tessellations
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.8b07150
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/24/origami-design-boosts-efficiency-of-solar-water-purifier/

Wooden Ellipse Jig
https://youtu.be/i8ktMxuJhEw

Geometry Links - August 14, 2018

Octonian Math and Fundamental Physics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-octonion-math-that-could-underpin-physics-20180720/

Soma Cube - 3D puzzle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_cube

Ambigrams - playing with the form of words

https://youtu.be/JyD6b9ww-1I

Anni Albers Notebook 1970-1980 - her only known notebook of fascinating weaving patterns and designs

https://davidzwirnerbooks.com/product/anni-albers-notebook-19701980

Esteban Diacono - "Animation experiments and small pictures of great moments"

https://www.instagram.com/_estebandiacono/

http://www.estebandiacono.com

Gary Doskas - magnetic modules for a regular geometric modeling system

https://youtu.be/MMvQXXBEiIw

https://youtu.be/o-grCOvaZbk

https://youtu.be/1qclsDvad3o

https://youtu.be/36-dHmJ_Q9g

https://youtu.be/1b5Crlj0MaQ

Editorial Comment:  This is incredibly beautiful and useful work.  Gary Doskas has done something marvelous and (naturally) magical.

PS:  Gary is trying to identify this shape which contains 4 overlapping rhombic dodecahedra

https://youtu.be/v0yBmNk9wzY

If you recognize it, please contact Gary Doskas or me so that I can refer the information to him.  I already pointed him to George Hart’s Encyclopedia of Polyhedra:  

http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/vp.html

Scutoid

https://www.livescience.com/63207-scutoid-new-shape-nature.html

Disney Research on Mechanical Characterization of Structured Sheet Materials or Isohedral Tessellations

https://youtu.be/Fbqn-swwf-Q

https://www.core77.com/posts/79064/Need-to-3D-Print-a-Pattern-That-Behaves-in-a-Certain-Way-Under-Force-Check-This-Out

Theo Jansen’s 2018 Strandbeests

https://youtu.be/On8v-Wr3XxU

BBC on Jansen’s collaboration with NASA

https://youtu.be/cmfEDpP9lzk

Origami hand made from paper

https://youtu.be/llLuy57cLKQ

Kagkatikas Secret - transforming a Greek ruin on Paxos

https://vimeo.com/281782224

Flickering Lights

https://vimeo.com/253586552

from https://quintessenz.art

Chladni patterns in color

https://youtu.be/a7Zr6jqz3Vs

Dogs herding sheep

https://youtu.be/H1LYXooK7dk

Geometry Links - July 24, 2018

Louis Henry Sullivan's System of Architectural Ornament is a beautiful book by a pioneering architect
https://www.pinterest.com/gilesphillips/louis-sullivan-system-of-architectural-ornament/

Laslit Supernova shape-shifting chandelier

https://youtu.be/6dkM-_och1Q

Mary Wagner’s spirographic drawings

https://www.marywagner.com

https://www.instagram.com/marywagnerinc/

BlocksCAD - “use coding, math, & design to create 3D models.  Best for 3rd - 10th grade."

http://BlocksCAD3d.com

John Kostick:  "These are some models of interesting but not very well known space filling arrays that I've been working on rendering.  Some of this goes back 50 years or so, some is more recent."
https://sketchfab.com/models/8fb95f8e5cfb4ff8b5f7b2915881140a
https://sketchfab.com/models/79704820cbde4b7189cd9d6d42473e40
https://sketchfab.com/models/57bf4aef7d4d4099b99d62635dc02a13

Telemetron - a dodecahedral musical instrument designed for zero gravity

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/594m95/the-telemetron-is-a-post-earth-musical-instrument-designed-for-zero-gravity

2-D 3-D art by Aakash Nihalani

http://www.aakashnihalani.com

Balancing Act - currently on Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway

https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/public-art/currently-greenway/aakash-nihalani/

A twitter bot creating a random 2-dimensional tiling once a day, by @roice713

https://twitter.com/TilingBot

https://github.com/roice3/TilingBot

Comparing City Street Orientations

http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/comparing-city-street-orientations/

City Street Orientations around the World

http://geoffboeing.com/2018/07/city-street-orientations-world/

Bonus:  Jefferson Grid

https://www.instagram.com/the.jefferson.grid/

hat tip:  https://slate.com/business/2018/07/manhattanhenge-exists-in-your-city-too.html

Nano-kirigami to Manipulate Light

https://scitechdaily.com/kirigami-inspired-technique-manipulates-light-could-enable-microchip-based-3d-optical-devices/

CGI Kaleidocycles

https://twitter.com/end_tt

https://boingboing.net/2018/07/17/trippy-cgi-designed-kaleidocyc.html

Sphericons

https://youtu.be/wb29-ULRBaE

Editorial Comment:  I wonder if you can combine sphericons with Celtic stones or rattlebacks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattleback