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3D Geodesic Animation inspiration

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Here’s some inspiration on YouTube for anyone wanting to animate geodesic spheres: Parametric Animation in 3dsMax #morpher [ Tutorial ]

Colleague Dave Van Dyke has contributed several geometric animations that appear here on GeometryCode.com and also on my BruceRawles.ccom blog; all of which were made using 3D Studio Max.

Redding Geodesic Sphere

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Happy 2020 everyone!

Instead of the New Year’s Eve “Ball drop” I decided to post a photo I took a couple of months ago while traveling south on Interstate 5, near Redding, Calif. of an eye-catching geodesic sphere. Having built and lived in a (Cathedralite 39′ diameter) geodesic dome home in the late 1970s, I tend to notice geodesic domes (partial spheres), but it’s less common to see larger full spheres such as this one. Here’s an article about the sphere’s construction, and another after the sphere was completed. Here’s a link to my friend Asha’s geodesic company – Pacific Domes – in Ashland, Oregon.

Geodesic Sphere near Redding, Calif.

Rotating Platonic Solids with optical caustics

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Here’s another gorgeous animation by David Van Dyke of Z-Axis Graphics. With Dave’s tutelage, 3DStudio Max generated this lovely video of glass polyhedra with beveled edges rotating in unison as if suspended by light beams from above. Again, Dave fine-tuned the optical caustics parameters in the geometric models to achieve the stunning photorealistic quality and recycled the synthesizer tone from the prior video.. You can enjoy more of Dave’ geometric models here and also his diverse artistic and musical creativity on my blog.

Rotating cube with optical caustics

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David Van Dyke of Z-Axis Graphics generated this exquisite video of a glass cube with beveled edges rotating on a diagonal axis (√3 times an edge length) using 3D Studio Max. Dave fine-tuned the optical caustics parameters in the geometric model to achieve the stunning photorealistic quality and added a synthesizer tone. You can enjoy more of Dave’ geometric models here and also his diverse artistic and musical creativity on my blog.