Category: 3D THINKING IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE

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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PRESENTATIONS WORKSHOPS

THE QUEST FOR BEAUTY – IN DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE

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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

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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 […]

3D Thinking in Design & Architecture – Published 2018

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“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 […]