#548 Ulam spiral – And with this Season 3 of Geometry Daily ends. Thanks for watching! You were a wonderful audience, it’s been tremendous fun. To ease the pain, please grab some prints and other...
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“Twill Star” is sometimes referred to as a “pinwheel” pattern. The weaving draft of this pattern looks ordinary but when it’s actually woven the twirling stars emerge…
Image: Carsten Nicolai, Telefunken, 2000 (Courtesy of Galerie EIGEN + ART) As any techno-cultural aficionado will enthusiastically tell you, the 21st century is the century of "convergence", in which the communications industry progressively rolled out its own rendition of the Swiss Army knife: pocket-sized, hand-held, wireless devices which function simultaneously as movie and music players, mobile phones, gaming engines, internet connectivity devices, still image and video cameras, musical instruments, calculators...with so many functions now capable of being handled by little equipment and energy expenditure, visions of the future both Utopian and dystopian have flown off the shelves at a hitherto unprecedented rate (and wireless electricity is just around the corner as well.) Prophesies abound that this synthesis of communicative modes and cross-pollination of technological functionality is a stepping stone towards realizing some kind of fully-integrated Übermensch; eventually our ability to communicate with and comprehend each other will accelerate to the point where humans morph into sophisticated telepaths. More grandiose yet, there are the fantasies of some ultimate "awakening" along the lines of the "Omega Point" suggested by rogue priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an ultimate synthesis of human intelligence with cosmic consciousness -- the inventor Ray Kurzweil calls the same "universal awakening" phenomenon the "Singularity," albeit with a much more technophiliac gloss to it.
“I get around, round round round, I get around” – Bonusreeks van Viktor Baltus
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For those that do recognize its intricate gears and dials, this tiny, complex piece of machinery tells a vivid and incredible tale of science, shipwreck, adventure, sunken treasure and impossible chance.
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Hace decenas de años, cuando la tecnología y los avances en ingeniería era muy diferentes a los de hoy en día, los barcos de guerra (y algunos de
If, like me, you are remotely interested in numbers or sacred geometry, you simply MUST get Michael S. Schneider's A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, Harper Perennial, 1995. I can also highly recommend the companion volumes called Constructing the Universe Activity Books for really getting into the mix. An amazing collection of material and highly, highly recommended... You can check out his full website HERE.
