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 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 […]
“3D Thinking” Pages 175 to 177 Islamic Geometry: This Seljuk period door dates from 13th-century Anatolia and stands as a possible example of a use of numeric values to communicate a message. The door’s design is based the Islamic “close-packing circle” method of design – in this case an arrangement of close-packing circles within a pentagon. The two primary numbers […]
This new rogerburrowsimages.com icon shows the relationship between Le Corbusier’s ‘man’ and the “Golden Sphere” packing generated by the author’s “Dynamic Sphere” geometry. The packing generates three-dimensional “ideation lattices” from which design, art, and architectural forms can be extracted. As much as DaVinci’e “Vitruvian Man” represents a “whole number” proportionate system that dates back to […]
“3D Thinking in Design and Architecture from Antiquity to the Future” – Thames and Hudson – published April 2018. Amazon UK; Amazon USA; Waterstones UK. UKP 39.95. 328 pages, over one thousand illustrations and photos. INDEX: Visual Logic 14. Neolithic Geometries 32. The River Cultures 58. The Americas 106. The Pythagoreans 124. European Tribal Geometry 160. Geometries […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRTgAUEdg7c&t=78sThis is a low res extract from a large HD “Dynamic Geometry,” animation from a machine I built in 1972 – one of the many dynamic geometry animations created for exhibition. Please see the “Exhibition and Lectures” section of this website.
Here’s a second animation using the same Images design as before. Actually this is the first animation that I actually put together using Adobe’s “After Effects.” Will keep improving the animations and hope to be a bit more adventurous!
This is my first Blog and hopefully the first of many. I’ve wanted to share my enthusiasm for discovery and for developing new things. I’d like to create Blogs about the Young Inventor Classes that I run, my Images Design and Altair Design Coloring Books, and about new technologies that I have seen, or am working […]
