Sacred Geometry bulletin for August 2011:
2) Websites, Books, Videos, Music and Quotes
3) Request for Submissions
1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials
Moving to Colorado!
As of August 22, our new postal address will be POB 192, Castle Rock Colorado 80104. (Our phone numbers and email addresses will stay the same.) I'm looking forward to giving sacred geometry workshops and presentations in the greater Denver area and meeting all our friends in this new-to-us state! If you live nearby (or know any fellow enthusiasts of mystical geometric symbolism), please contact us.
I just made a new higher resolution version of a video clip showing how the Platonic Solids nest together in a unique way; this was originally uploaded to YouTube on March 31,2007. The capability of YouTube has improved over the past few years, so now you can see the video quality much closer to what I see on my computer.
This continuous loop rotates around a nest of the five Platonic Solids: Cube (red), Tetrahedron (yellow), Octahedron (green), Icosahedron (blue) and Dodecahedron (purple), returning to a cube oriented along the same x-y-z axes one third the size in each dimension as the outer cube. The transparency of the inner cube changes from 100% opaque to 100% transparent as the animation proceeds, which allows playing as an infinte recursive loop. Each "new cube" (as one loop of the animation completes) has 1/27th the volume of the original, since the side length is 1/3 of the starting cube.
Check out the related fractal videos below... Since we're already swimming in boxes (for our next move) I'll be a bit lazy and recycle a few items from last month's bulletin...
Solar System Geometries Per Martineau - calendars available again!
I just made a new 2012 version of the popular Martineau Series (a.k.a. Solar System Geometries Per Martineau) calendar for neighborhood astronomy/sacred geometry enthusiasts. This newly updated calendar (which I'll make available every year) has 12 images from the Martineau Solar System and there's also a 2011 version (if you still need a calendar for this year). These images represent highly accurate geometric models of our solar system. They were inspired by the remarkable work of John Martineau, who wrote "A Little Book of Coincidence". Tiled images of planetary surfaces and related images form the backgrounds. Images are two or more orbits defined by simple 2D (circles, triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, octagons) or 3D geometries (e.g. tetrahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron) typically with 99.9% or greater accuracy. The work picks up where Johannes Kepler's mystical exploration left off. More detail about these amazing solar system geometries (and information about prints, cards, clothing and other items) is here. You can buy the 2012 Solar System Geometries Per Martineau calendar here.
Love Blossoms - new calendar of exquisite flower close-ups!
Speaking of calendars, my wife (Nancy) has also created a 2012 calendar entitled "Love Blossoms" of exquisite close up photographs of flowers which has some really lovely images. The golden ratio (blossoms with pentagonal geometry) and Flower of Life (blossoms with hexagonal geometry) and more are encoded in these colorful and artfully composed photos. The calendar features this quote on the cover "The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." — Thich Nhat Hanh. You can purchase Nancy's floral calendar here.
Video showing Geometric Wipe Patterns for Final Cut Pro
Our dear friend (and superb videographer/editor) Claudine Jordan (www.CezeFilms.com) generously donated a bit of her time to assemble a short video showing transition examples of how three of the HD patterns in my Geometric Gradient Wipe Patterns for Final Cut Pro can be used. She (and her colleague Tom Klodin) are in the midst of editing an amazing video featuring Leslie Smith, a young MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter, which I knew nothing about prior to watching a rough draft of their fascinating documentary . The video shows how something as seemingly conflict-oriented as fighting, when practiced by someone whose focus is demonstrating compassion and interconnectedness can (once again) transcend form and reflect kind-spiritedness.
The excerpts from her documentary-in-progress show geometric (gradient wipe) transitions between clips of Leslie in Thailand, and adobe structures and panoramic landscapes of the desert southwest. Now (hopefully) those of you using Final Cut Pro who want to see how these transitions look with real video will have some examples to show how 3 of these transition patterns can be put to good use. I'll have a full complement of HD patterns available soon. Meanwhile... To order any of the 4 SD (Standard Definition) sets, just visit the main page here, or any of the four pages with the pattern collections:
Circulars, Triangulars, and More
Flower of Life and Rectangulars
Hexagonals
Pentagonals
Hi all! On April 20, 2011 I announced the remodeling of the new GeometryCode website (and email bulletin) ... If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to take a few minutes and explore the new GeometryCode website and discover content both new and old. It's now even easier that before for me to add blog posts, since there really wasn't a blog section for GeometryCode before and now there is! I always welcome YOUR suggestions! :-)
Here's an example: Fractile Fun
Fractiles are one of my favorite geometric toys. Like ZomeTool, they are both originally brainchild creations of Marc Pelletier. It's interesting to explore how a set of diamond shaped tiles whose angles are multiples of 1/14 of a circle can be combined in amazing ways! ... Read more about Fractiles here.
If you are interested in sacred geometry workshops in the Denver, Colorado vicinity please let me know! Here's my list of current and past events. If you have a local, regional (or global for that matter, as long as my expenses are covered) venue to suggest, please let me know that too!
2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes
Dave Van Dyke of Z-axis Graphics who created a stunning 3D animation (using 3DStudioMax) of three nested gilded Dodecadodecahedra we featured last month (and its associated companion screensaver), has again contributed another interesting screensaver. This one is an organic looking simulation of magnetic particles streaming around the magnetic lines of force defined by a torus. Thanks again, Dave!
Here's a few interesting video links:
A neat pentagonal fractal of rotating gears.
... and elegant morphing Platonic Solids ... and Torus Fun (Sacred Geometry by ieoie)
... and thanks to Michael H. for this historical, ethnomathematical reference on Mathematics and the Liberal Arts for student research projects.
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Bruce Rawles
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