New Title: Review copies only. Available for critique, review, and endorsement. “With over one thousand drawings and photographs, this beautifully illustrated book traces the development of visual imagination in the arts and architecture from the ‘first steps’ some 100,000 years ago to the near future. The author describes the development of perception, geometry, and imagination […]
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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 […]
Evolution and ‘Bubble Logic’
Just for fun I put together the attached paper:
Girih Tiles & The Gunbad-i Qabud Tomb
Girih Tiles on the
Labyrinths Mysteries and Methods
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
PRESENTATIONS WORKSHOPS
A Presentation at the AAU in San Francisco, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmENxx1PToNtaGPfsVrkpQ Presentations: http://rogerburrowsimages.com/mission-statement/
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 […]