Geometry Links - January 24, 2022

 Geometric water saving faucet design

http://www.ecosnippets.com/environmental/students-faucet-design-saves-water/
hat tip Marjom/2016/10/geometry-links-compendium-2011-october.html

Modules for storage from Danilo Olim
https://daao.pt/portfolio/77-module/
https://daao.pt/portfolio/22-module/
https://daao.pt/portfolio/18-inspire-yourself/
https://www.core77.com/posts/111191/Danilo-Olims-Interlocking-Plywood-Shapes-for-Custom-Shelving-Units

U, V, W modules
https://github.com/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/UVW.ipynb
hat tip Daniel Ari Friedman

Best optical illusions of the year
http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2021/
hat tip boingboing.net

Sally Blake - woven and other work based on natural forms
https://sallyblake.com/work
https://www.treehugger.com/seed-like-woven-metal-sculptures-by-sally-blake-5214411
hat tip treehugger.com

John Powers’ geometric art
https://www.johnpowers.us
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/arts/design/john-powers-sculptor-accident.html

Froebel blocks, from the inventor of kindergarten
https://redhentoys.com/collections/froebel-education

Visualizing the evolution of the alphabet
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/from-greek-to-latin-visualizing-the-evolution-of-the-alphabet/
hat tip to Guillermo Taccioli

Geometry reduces concrete 70% in precast slabs
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/eth-zurich-3d-printer-concrete-carbon-emissions
hat tip Greg Watson

Unusual seed and fruit photography from Levon Biss
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-bizarre-seeds-and-fruits-from-around-the-globe/rie Farrell

Freaky Flowers: Echinopsis Cacti in Bloom - time lapse of cactus flowers
https://vimeo.com/122575482
hat tip boingboing.net

Bathsheba Grossman’s geometric art
https://bathsheba.com
Interview with Bathsheba Grossman, geometric sculptor - even  more 3D printed objects
http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/2075-Designer-Spotlight-Bathsheba-Grossman.html
hat tip https://kk.org/cooltools/lenore-edman-co-founder-of-evil-mad-scientist-laboratories/
Grossman’s work has been featured here previously 
http://geometrylinks.blogspot.co

Geometry Links - December 18, 2021

 Right-Angle Doodling Machine

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/493770
hat tip boingboing.net

Rock stacking simulator
https://neal.fun/rocks/

Project Lotus - smart flowers which fold open in response to light
https://studioroosegaarde.net/project/lotus
https://inhabitat.com/smart-flower-lotus-oculus-moves-in-response-to-light/

Seasonal Art of Slama Osijek
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/interviews/48569-slama-osijek
hat tip George Samuel

Rockerless rocking chair
https://apetersen.dk/products/rocking-chair/
https://www.core77.com/posts/110605/Dan-Svarths-Unusual-Rocker-less-Rocking-Chair

Animation of Richard Feynman’s “Ode to a Flower”
https://vimeo.com/55874553
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/01/01/ode-to-a-flower-richard-feynman/
hat tip Gil Friend

Polly Verity - paper sculptor
https://youtu.be/IUd57qIeX4A
hat tip boingboing.net

Kaleidowall - modern origami wall art
https://kaleidowall.com/

Using machine learning to discover one of the first connections between the algebraic and geometric structure of knots
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04086-x
hat tip https://www.exponentialview.co/ev-351/

Rudy Rucker’s unfolded hypercube model of the Robert Heinlein’s “Crooked House”
https://twitter.com/rudytheelder/status/1468028989121843203/photo/1

Kung fu motion visualization
https://vimeo.com/163153865
hat tip boingboing.net

Dissection of a Tetrahedron - dividing a regular tetrahedron into halves, thirds, quarters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qie_8woUkGQ

Dissection of a Tetrahedron

 Dividing a regular tetrahedron into halves, thirds, quarters - some models I’ve been playing with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qie_8woUkGQ

Geometry Links - November 5, 2021

 Generative art website and app

http://weavesilk.com

Yuu Asaka’s different kind of jigsaw puzzles
https://puzzlescore.com/en/brands/yuu-asaka/
hat tip core77.com

Parametric Architecture - "a media company that researches about art, architecture and design that are visualized through computational, parametric and digital design paradigms"
https://parametric-architecture.com

Shashibo cube - magnetic puzzle cube that makes 70 different shapes
https://getshashibo.com

David Roy on how to make a kinetic sculpture
https://www.air.tv/watch?v=Vdx1FTQbSTGuC7gqY9qK2A

The fireworks jellyfish
https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1444865381944995843

Rainbow wasp nests
https://www.goodshomedesign.com/wasps-build-rainbow-nests-when-given-colored-paper/
hat tip JP Mokray

Acoustic healing for hearts (and cymatic forms of heart cells)
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/listening/innovations-helping-harness-sound-acoustics-healing.html
hat tip Marjorie Farrell
Editorial Comment:  from Geometry Links - June 2, 2021
Milford Graves - a jazz drummer who made music and animations from his heart rhythms
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/milford-graves-drummer.html
https://www.milfordgraves.com/
https://vimeo.com/user92466694 - Graves’ videos
https://www.fullmantis.com/welcome - remarkable animations of heart music around 32:00

Newton’s Fractal
https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/newtons-fractal

Clover Table - folding table based on the octahedron
https://www.peternasielski.com/project07

Staircase to Heaven and other works by Strijdom van der Merwe
https://boingboing.net/2021/10/20/this-staircase-to-heaven-is-actually-just-a-beautiful-illusion.html
https://www.strijdom.com

“Active velocity wave” in rotating spheroids
https://twitter.com/CBroedersz/status/1453748890008793096

Geometry Links - September 12, 2021

 A student’s unfolding storage furniture

https://www.core77.com/posts/109576/Product-Design-Student-Work-Tatsuya-Sakurais-Unfolding-Storage-Furniture

Dancing furniture
https://www.core77.com/posts/109591/Kinetic-Chairs-That-Arent-Rocking-Chairs

Gaia Mother Tree - giant crocheted tree sculpture
https://mymodernmet.com/crochet-tree-textile-sculpture-ernesto-neto/
hat tip Marjorie Farrell

Mohamed Samir’s geometric Arabic fonts
https://www.instagram.com/mohamedsamirdesign/
hat tip to https://kk.org/cooltools/

Applied geometry from 3700 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/05/australian-mathematician-discovers-applied-geometry-engraved-on-3700-year-old-tablet
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10699-021-09806-0

Protein structures to blunt the COVID19 spike
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behind-COVID-19/98/i38

Seed photographs
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/aug/14/micro-marvels-levon-biss-captures-seeds-close-up-in-pictures

Rob Kessler’s photomicrographs of plant organs
http://www.robkesseler.co.uk
https://www.treehugger.com/artist-microscope-photographs-details-pollen-seeds-fruit-5199073

The Singing Ringing Tree - a sound sculpture
https://youtu.be/dRYlblqXUmk
hat tip to boingboing.net
Editorial Comment:  I spent a summer just down the hill from a large wind harp in Chelsea, VT and remember that music well.

Light photographed as both wave and particle for first time
https://www.popsci.com/light-photographed-wave-and-particle-first-time/
hat tip to Steven Messutta

Benjamin Sack’s art - "Composer of worlds standing at a slight angle to the universe"
https://www.bensackart.com
https://www.instagram.com/ibensack/
hat tip boingboing.net

Lace sculptures by Agnes Herczeg
https://www.agnesherczeg.com
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/08/figural-lace-sculptures-attached-to-found-wood-by-agnes-herczeg/
hat tip Marjorie Farrell

Geometry Links - July 29, 2021

 Kimono exhibition explores 1500 years of this form of clothing

https://www.fashion-kyoto.or.jp/orikyo/80th - in Japanese
https://mymodernmet.com/kimono-exhibition-bunka-gakuen-costume-museum/

Glass octopus
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1415695958705418240

A stack of drawers that becomes a spiral staircase
https://www.core77.com/posts/109472/From-Italy-a-Stack-of-Drawers-That-Transforms-Into-a-Spiral-Staircase

Uncovering multiscale order in the prime numbers via scattering - a pattern in the primes like quasi-crystals
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-5468/aad6be
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06279
https://www.resonancescience.org/blog/Surprising-hidden-order-unites-prime-numbers-and-crystal-like-materials
Editorial Comment:  I take Nassim Haramein with a box of salt but he does some interesting things from time to time and cite his sources here.
hat tip Rich Sage

Mathemalchemy project is "an exciting collaborative enterprise, driven by the energy and enthusiasm of twenty-three mathematical artists and artistic mathematicians. The
end goal is to realize by the summer of 2021 a large multimedia art installation that celebrates the creativity and beauty of mathematics."
https://mathemalchemy.org/
hat tip Edmund Harriss

Sculptures from books
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jul/17/sculptures-that-make-novel-use-of-books-stephen-doyle-in-pictures

Headless Hug - proposed tensegrity from Gerald De Jong
https://www.facebook.com/gerald.dejong/videos/648898129404467
Tensegrity and anatomy
https://www.anatomytrains.com/fascia/tensegrity/
Editorial Comment:  Tom Myers' work on fascia and anatomy trains is not only fascinating but healing.

Community sunscreen
https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/07/15/local-knitters-create-beautiful-crochet-screen-to-keep-sun-off-the-streets-in-town-inland-from-spains-costa-del-sol/
hat tip Marjorie Farrell

AI predicts 350,000 protein shapes,  including all 20,000 expressed by human DNA
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/technology/deepmind-ai-proteins-folding.html
https://wwm/news/science-environment-57929095

Tetrahedra - I’ve been playing with tetrahedral dissections (and if anybody has seen a tetrahedron divided into thirds from the center out, please let me know) and came up with these in my research:

Tetrahedral partitioning methods
https://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/wessner/node12.html
from WILFRIED WESSNER’s dissertation on Mesh Refinement Techniques for TCAD Tools
https://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/wessner/diss.html

The 59 tetrahedra with rational dihedral angles
https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-finally-prove-rational-tetrahedron-solutions-20210202/
ttps://www.bbc.co

Tetrahedron super-yacht
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/14/sport/gallery/tetrahedron-super-yacht/index.html

Geometry Links _ July 9, 2021

 Pufferfish skeleton

https://twitter.com/harmonylion1/status/1400179536059265024/photo/1

Letterlocking
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210616-how-the-forgotten-tricks-of-letterlocking-shaped-history

Pattern generator
https://doodad.dev/pattern-generator/
hat tip kk.org/cooltools

Chaos game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbKtFN71Lfs
Related:  the sierpinski triangle page to end most sierpinski triangle pages
http://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm
hat tip boingboing.net

Pippa Dyrlaga, paper cut-out artist
https://www.instagram.com/bearfollowscat/
https://mymodernmet.com/pippa-dyrlaga-paper-cut-outs/
hat tip JPMokray

Puzzle fonts from the Demaines
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/science/puzzles-fonts-math-demaine.html
https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/

Geometric dance
https://www.facebook.com/anna.folchi/videos/10222640822642621

Ekodome - dome kits
https://ekodome.com

Electric vehicle with built-in geodesic tent
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/07/alpha-motor-corporation-announces-collaborative-vehicle-with-heimplanet-featuring-built-in-geodesic-tent/

Kirigami artificial skin
https://news.mit.edu/2021/smart-skin-vitals-0630
hat tip Bruce Sterling

Fractals and cauliflower
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/science/cauliflower-and-chaos-fractals-in-every-floret.html

Bending ice
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/science/ice-bending-microfibers.html
Editorial Comment:  Good to see the old Gray Lady is interested in geometry