Category: PERCEPTION

“The Story of Visual Imagination in Architecture and the Arts”

By Architecture, Arts, CREATIVE GEOMETRY, GEOMETRY THROUGH TIME, PERCEPTION

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 […]

Nazca Lines: Spirals and Labyrinths

By 3D THINKING, 3D THINKING IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, CREATIVE GEOMETRY, DIVINE PROPORTIONS, GEOMETRY THROUGH TIME, INTERACTIVE LEARNING, LABYRINTHS, LECTURES PRESENTATIONS, MIND DOODLES, PATTERNS OF PERCEPTION, PERCEPTION, PUBLICATIONS, SACRED ARCHITECTURE, SACRED GEOMETRY, VISUAL LOGIC

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 […]

Presentations & Workshops

By 3D THINKING, 3D THINKING IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, ABJAD SYSTEM, ALTAIR DESIGNS, CREATIVE GEOMETRY, DIVINE PROPORTIONS, DYNAMIC SPHERE GEOMETRY, EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD, GEOMETRY OF ANCIENT CHINA, GEOMETRY OF ANCIENT EGYPT, GEOMETRY THROUGH TIME, GOLDEN RATIO, IMAGES DESIGN BOOKS, INDUS VALLEY, ISLAMIC ART, LABYRINTHS, LE CORBUSIER, LECTURES PRESENTATIONS, MIND DOODLES, NESTING POLYGONS, PATTERNS OF PERCEPTION, PERCEPTION, PYTHAGOREANS, SACRED GEOMETRY, SHAPE CHANGING POLYHEDRA, VISUAL LOGIC

PRESENTATIONS WORKSHOPS

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

By 3D THINKING, 3D THINKING IN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, ABJAD SYSTEM, ALTAIR DESIGNS, CREATIVE GEOMETRY, DIVINE PROPORTIONS, GEOMETRY THROUGH TIME, INDUS VALLEY, LECTURES PRESENTATIONS, MIND DOODLES, PATTERNS OF PERCEPTION, PERCEPTION, SACRED ARCHITECTURE, SACRED GEOMETRY

“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 […]

VISUAL LOGIC: McGURK EFFECT

By PERCEPTION, VISUAL LOGIC

“3D Thinking” Page 22 The McGurk Effect: An example of how our brain forms perceptions from fragmentary sensory information. Here, from a BBC 2 program, Prof Lawrence Rosenblum pronounces the word “ba” continuously. The video shows his mouth pronouncing “ba” but then the video shows his mouth changing to pronounce the word “fa” – but […]