Archimedean Solids

Chrome Zome Jewelry

Monday, 28 November 2011 by Bruce Rawles

Zometool Jewelry – featuring elegant chrome-plated Zome hubs – is now available! Nancy (our resident jeweler) says she can make these earrings with the bottom (Swarovski 6mm) crystal in a variety of colors in addition to the pink (rose) and jet black varieties shown here, including clear, aqua, blue, light blue, midnight blue, teal, green, purple, amethyst purple, and other colors and variations. Each earring features the unique Zometool hub (12 pentagonal holes, 20 triangular holes and 30 golden rectangle holes) with a metallic chrome finish. Chains and earring hooks will vary with styles.

This is just our first offering, so look forward to matching necklaces and other variations coming soon!

Note: These two pairs are now available. We’ll feature more items on GeometryCode.com and NancyBolton.com as they become available.

To buy a pair, specify the stock number, and send a money order or check to Intent Design Studio for $30 a pair plus $5 shipping to US addresses. Colorado residents, please add applicable sales tax.

Stock number CZ1: $30 + $5 shipping to US addresses
1 Pair Chrome-plated Zometool hubs, with Pink Swarovski 6mm crystals, silver hooks and silver chain

Stock number CZ2: $30 + $5 shipping to US addresses
1 Pair Chrome-plated Zometool hubs, with Jet Black Swarovski 6mm crystals, silver hooks and gun-metal plated chain

(The chrome ‘hub’ is about 5/8″ in diameter; the chain is 1″ long; the hook is 1/2″ long; the crystal is about 1/4″ long and the total length or ‘dangle’ of the earrings is about 2 3/8″.)

Hands-on sacred geometry workshop Oct. 8, 2011 in Castle Rock, CO

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 by Bruce Rawles

I’m giving a day-long, hands-on* sacred geometry workshop from 10AM-5PM on Saturday, October 8, 2011, here at our new home in Castle Rock, Colorado. We’re about 20-60 minutes south of Denver, depending on what part of the metropolitan area you might be driving from. Cost is on a sliding scale from $25-$75 based on need. Pre-registration is required, due to limited space around our dining room table! :-) Please contact Bruce via GeometryCode.com to register. I’ll be happy to phone or Skype with even more details. Please bring a geometer’s compass, straight-edge, scissors and cellophane tape; I will supply lots of 2D and 3D handouts including platonic solid fold-up patterns, plus LOTS of visual multimedia imagery, animation and more, along with plenty of theory on the mystical underpinnings of sacred geometry! :-) I typically bring most of my extensive library on the subject out for everyone to peruse; you can see most of them (except some of the rare and obscure titles) on the GeometryCode Amazon aStore. Here is a full resolution printable flyer for the event.

Zometool Inspiration

Saturday, 28 May 2011 by Bruce Rawles

Carlos Neumann zometool microdo — Carlos Neumann with a Zometool ‘microdo’ model

Recently we had lunch in Denver, Colorado with Carlos Neumann of Zometool, the maker of my favorite geometric modeling tool/toy. It’s really both a fabulous design and 3D visualization modeling environment AND a fun toy for any age – even those who don’t think they like geometry. He brought along a Zometool model of the “Microdo.” See the close up photograph below:

zometool microdo photo — Zometool “microdo” model

and a screen snap of it using the new Zomepad software, a VERY cool 3D modeling app that lets one rotate, modify, translate, zoom, etc. Zometool models in real time. The screen snaps just give a hint of how fun this app is!

Zomepad Microdo model — Zomepad image of Microdo model

Here’s a chrome plated (dare we say “Chrome Zome”? :-) hub. Notice that the polygons that make up the hub are equilateral triangles, regular pentagons and golden rectangles, which provide phenomenal versatility in creating Platonic and Archimedean Solids, as well as a staggering array of amazing shapes that use these foundational geometries and their 3-fold and 5-fold rotational symmetries and much more. Stay tuned for fun and decorative developments with these shiny orb-like gems! :-)

ZomeTool Chrome plated hub — Chrome plated Zometool hub

Another thing to notice about the Zomepad models is that there are background dots: red (pentagonal), yellow (triangular) and blue (golden rectangular) that are aligned behind the model as it rotates around so that you can see when you’re lined up with an axis of rotation and/or symmetry. Pretty neat!

Here are the default models that you can explore with the current pre-release version of the ZomePad app:

ZomePad model - pentagram/pentagon fractal — ZomePad model – pentagram/pentagon fractal

ZomePad Hypercube (Tesseract) model — ZomePad Hypercube (Tesseract) – 3D ‘shadow’ of a 4D polytope

ZomePad 3D Hexagonal (honey comb) grid model

Here are some Zometool models I put together years ago:

zometool stellated dodecahedron — Zometool stellated dodecahedron

The stellated dodecahedron model hung above my office cubicle at Grass Valley Group in northern California for several years; sure made a great landmark to direct folks to my desk! :-)

Here’s another of the countless topologies and geometric variations that one can make with Zometool hubs and struts. If you enjoyed Tinkertoys (or perhaps Erector sets, etc.) when you were a kid, check out Zometool. There really isn’t anything else like it. The engineering and precision design of the hub alone is an amazing story in itself that Marc Pelletier gave us a quick tour of when I was at a sacred geometry conference in Boulder, Colorado years ago, where I met lots of wonderful geometer colleagues I’m still mostly in touch with.

ZomeTool model — Zometool model (one of countless variations to explore)

Sacred Geometry Communities

Sunday, 13 March 2011 by Bruce Rawles

The Geometry Code – Sacred Geometry Blog – Conversations – Global Community (this is a blog-ish page from our prior site)

Videos: interviews and more

Here’s a video interview about The Seven Hermetic Laws, Sacred Geometry and more with Alan Steinfeld of New Realities and Bruce Rawles now on YouTube (originally on Emerald Energies) recorded in Sedona, Arizona at the Global Sacred Geometry Conference in Feb 2004. Thanks also to Alan Gutierrez and Angélique DeWolfe for their efforts with this interview.

Here’s a video by Dan Shaw (a long time fellow geometer) of my commentary on the Planetary Geometries: Martineau Solar System Series artwork when it was at the Mobius in Ashland, Oregon during April, 2007.

Audios: interviews and more

This is an audio interview with Jake Steele of Author’s Audio about sacred geometry, the Great Pyramid and more.

Geometric Animations

Here’s an animation I did showing how the Platonic Solids nest perfectly in an infinite recursive 3:1 size scaled loop with each iteration oriented the same – the original video has MUCH better resolution… and the looping is seamless in the QuickTime viewer! There are more details on my blog.)

Local Community (Southern Oregon)
Ashland Geometers – a.k.a. Hedronists

We have a wonderful group of kindred geometers that meet somewhat regularly in Ashland, Oregon; we call ourselves by the whimsical name “Hedronists”. We previously had links to our collaborative video/dialogues presence on MySpace, LuminosityWeb, and ning.

Here’s my individual YouTube site, which has one of our Hedronists meetings in parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

For more, please visit our Resources and Events pages.

Sacred Geometry Blog Post Archives

Saturday, 12 March 2011 by Bruce Rawles

Here are some archives of past blog posts (on my personal blog) on a variety of sacred geometry and related topics. Now that the new website has a blog devoted to sacred geometry, you’ll find the new posts on this site.