Nazca Lines: Spirals and Labyrinths

This will be my only post for 2021 as I’ve been working on my new book all to do with visualization and imagination in the arts and architecture; through time (almost complete). This post is from my 2020 paper given at Bridges Math/Art 2020. Two animations and one illustration sequence. The Nazca giant-geoglyph spirals that […]

THE QUEST FOR BEAUTY – IN DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

The animation is of a storyboard – the actual presentation will be feature movie-clips, photographs, illustrations and animations. The “Quest…” will be a keynote lecture given at the Goods Shed Arts Center in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England Feb 13th 2019 followed by a Workshop Feb 14th. follows mankind’s striving to create designs and architectural structures that […]

FIRE ALTARS OF THE VEDAS – A LOGICAL PUZZLE FROM ANCIENT INDIA

“3D Thinking” Pages 67 to 72: Vedic Fire Altars present a logical puzzle for those building them. Firstly, the surface area has to be in direct proportion to the height of the individual whose task it is to construct the altar. Secondly, there is to be a precise alignment of the altar with the four […]

DYNAMIC SPHERES: GOLDEN RATIO ARCHITECTURE

“3D Thinking” Page 288: A “Golden Ratio” structure extracted from a 3D lattice generated by the sphere cluster, HP1.3. See Page 271, “3D THINKING ANIMATIONS.” The lattice is created by connecting the centers of the “Golden Ratio” spheres. The illustration shows how the lattice is generated and then how the  structure is extracted from the space-filling […]

Geometry Divine Proportions

“3D Thinking” Pages 67, 75, 77, 210 to 213: Ideas of “Divine Proportions” originated in the distant past. For the Pythagoreans whole numbers resonated throughout the cosmos in sacred music, in geometry and in number. For the Harrapans of the Indus Valley they found expression in fire altars of different shapes but of constant areas […]