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brightpearl · 08-04-2007, 05:59 PM

She's dead, Jim.

brightpearl · 08-04-2007, 07:11 PM

In my opinon, it's the name that really makes this piece.

"Aardvarks is constructed from sixty identical pieces of laser-cut plywood. The pieces lie in the sixty extended face planes of a pentagonal hexecontahedron (a facially regular Catalan polyhedron). I designed the pieces to weave in and out through each other yet meet at their extremities. Although the parts are identical, they meet in various ways to create negative spaces with 2-fold, 3-fold, or 5-fold symmetry. Originally conceived as an abstract form, I had a vague impression of aardvarks while designing it, so decided that was an appropriate name."
~George Hart

rapscalious rob · 08-29-2007, 08:04 PM

There’s a great Buckminster Fuller quote about this stuff…

brightpearl · 08-30-2007, 06:14 PM

This one?:

"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty, but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

This is one of my favorite quotes of his:
"The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow."

He was an interesting guy. His headstone says, "Call me trimtab."

Stephi_B · 09-04-2007, 08:01 AM

Coded art (following quite complex algorithms):

photo gallery

Dynamic painting by San Base:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNtiZW9xbM

Stephi_B · 09-18-2007, 06:36 AM

The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher

more pictures here

trisherina · 10-08-2007, 12:46 PM

molecular jewelry

Stephi_B · 10-09-2007, 07:35 AM

Art of Science Competition @ Princeton:

online galleries
2006
2005

Stephi_B · 10-09-2007, 01:44 PM

Searched my data for something slightly artistic... and here's my blue bird

(you have to turn your head by 90°, sorry, couldn't fix that):

Usually these Wigner transformations of my IR pulses look like rather boring worms or eels, unfortunately...

brightpearl · 10-17-2007, 02:53 PM

pancreatic lipase

Stephi_B · 10-29-2007, 10:49 AM

Anastasios John Hart, DeltaX member and postdoc at MIT,
fabricated forests of Carbon Nanotubes displaying 40 Playboy Bunnies.
John's scientific art will be published in one of the next playboy magazines under Editor's letters.

***

Something entirely different:

JGS INC.
Alexis Rockman's painting The Farm questions the future of genetic engineering.

trisherina · 01-04-2008, 09:20 PM

tattoos

lukkucairi · 01-04-2008, 10:30 PM

^fantastic

Stephi_B · 01-15-2008, 09:13 AM

IR, UV and X-ray photography

Stephi_B · 01-08-2009, 12:59 PM

cool nano thingies

08-29-2007, 08:04 PM	#18
rapscalious rob Have a Gorilla. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: There, everyone likes a Gorilla. Posts: 178	There’s a great Buckminster Fuller quote about this stuff… __________________ You go skipping and prancing through life, skipping through a field of dandelions. But what you don’t see is that on each dandelion is a bee, and on each bee is an ant, and the ant is biting the bee and the bee is biting the flower, and if that shocks you then I’m sorry.

10-08-2007, 12:46 PM	#22
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	molecular jewelry __________________ Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dillard

01-04-2008, 09:20 PM	#27
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	tattoos __________________ Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dillard

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08-04-2007, 05:59 PM	#16
brightpearl Rhinoceros fan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8,749	She's dead, Jim.

08-04-2007, 07:11 PM	#17
brightpearl Rhinoceros fan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8,749	In my opinon, it's the name that really makes this piece. "Aardvarks is constructed from sixty identical pieces of laser-cut plywood. The pieces lie in the sixty extended face planes of a pentagonal hexecontahedron (a facially regular Catalan polyhedron). I designed the pieces to weave in and out through each other yet meet at their extremities. Although the parts are identical, they meet in various ways to create negative spaces with 2-fold, 3-fold, or 5-fold symmetry. Originally conceived as an abstract form, I had a vague impression of aardvarks while designing it, so decided that was an appropriate name." ~George Hart

08-30-2007, 06:14 PM	#19
brightpearl Rhinoceros fan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8,749	This one?: "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty, but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." This is one of my favorite quotes of his: "The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow." He was an interesting guy. His headstone says, "Call me trimtab."

09-04-2007, 08:01 AM	#20
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	Coded art (following quite complex algorithms): photo gallery Dynamic painting by San Base:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNtiZW9xbM

09-18-2007, 06:36 AM	#21
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	The Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher more pictures here

10-09-2007, 07:35 AM	#23
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	Art of Science Competition @ Princeton: online galleries 2006 2005

10-09-2007, 01:44 PM	#24
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	Searched my data for something slightly artistic... and here's my blue bird (you have to turn your head by 90°, sorry, couldn't fix that): Usually these Wigner transformations of my IR pulses look like rather boring worms or eels, unfortunately...

10-17-2007, 02:53 PM	#25
brightpearl Rhinoceros fan Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8,749	pancreatic lipase

10-29-2007, 10:49 AM	#26
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	Anastasios John Hart, DeltaX member and postdoc at MIT, fabricated forests of Carbon Nanotubes displaying 40 Playboy Bunnies. John's scientific art will be published in one of the next playboy magazines under Editor's letters. *** Something entirely different: JGS INC. Alexis Rockman's painting The Farm questions the future of genetic engineering.

01-04-2008, 10:30 PM	#28
lukkucairi earth worker Join Date: May 2006 Location: on the planet Posts: 5,844	^fantastic

01-15-2008, 09:13 AM	#29
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	IR, UV and X-ray photography

01-08-2009, 12:59 PM	#30
Stephi_B waaaaaaa :) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Berlin Posts: 3,875	cool nano thingies