Category: 3D THINKING

Nazca Lines: Spirals and Labyrinths

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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 […]

Labyrinths Mysteries and Methods

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Just posted a video supplement to my 2020 Bridges Paper “Labyrinths Mysteries and Methods,” on my youtube channel rogerburrowsimages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5td10JrcrU. The link to the paper is http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/202… The paper and the supplement present five methods for constructing labyrinths that can be used to create ancient labyrinths or used to create new ones as far as […]

Presentations & Workshops

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

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“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 […]

SHAPE CHANGING POLYHEDRA

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“3D Thinking” Page 238: Shape Changing Polyhedra The original idea for shape changing polyhedra came from studying muqarnas and playing with children’s building blocks. The featured image is of the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque Muqarnas in Shiraz, Iran. The building blocks were as in the photo:  An introduction to the logic of this geometry can be seen in […]

Creative Geometry Octagon Design

A Geometry of Early Islam – Nesting Polygons

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“3D Thinking” Page 190, 191: There are a number of Islamic design methodologies of which the “Nesting Polygon” method is one. The method places an arrangement of polygons within a polygon and continues infinitely placing the same but scaled arrangement within each polygon as it appears. The method was used to generate a lattice from […]

A Geometry of Early Islam – ABJAD, Circles and a Door

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“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 […]