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Uncommon Awareness radio interview with Dr. Lorraine Hurley

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I just uploaded audio archives (recorded May 6,2013) of an interview about with Dr. Lorraine Hurley, MD. on her “Uncommon Awareness” show here: Interview part 1 Interview part 2 … We had great fun exploring lots of favorite topics; here’s her synopsis: “Exploring the foundations of nature and sacred geometry, author Bruce Rawles will help us begin to explore the patterns and the resonance frequencies that surround us.  Sacred geometry brings the wonder of the universe to us in patterns that are awe-inspiring.” Enjoy! :-)

Uncommon Awareness - Dr. Lorraine Hurley

Crystal Systems and Platonic Solids

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I like to share conversations that might be useful to a general audience, so here’s yet another email dialogue (with names removed). This one concerns Crystal Systems and Platonic Solids.

Inquiry:

I am trying to find out if there is a correlation between the crystal systems (i.e., Cubic, Tetragonal, Orthorhombic, Monoclinic, Triclinic, Hexagonal, Trigonal) and the Sacred Geometry shapes. …

My response:

They are all related, but some evidently more closely than others. The cube (cubic) might be the closest connection between the 2 ‘systems’ of ‘sacred geometry’ and crystallography, since many crystal systems seem to be non-regular (differing angles and side lengths) variations of cubic forms, as you suggest. There are quite a few examples of how the 5 Platonic solids all relate to each other in my first book (SGDS). I took the small sketches in Keith Critchlow’s superb “Order In Space” book and made full-page illustrations from many of them in SGDS.

There are probably lots of other online references that might help as far as the crystal systems go; here are a few:

Wikipedia

Wolfram Demonstration Project – The Seven Crystal Classes

Imperial College Rock Library: Earth Science And Engineering

Monoclinic crystal

Zazzle super sale continues through 25Nov2012

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Zazzle continues great sales this weekend (use code ZSUPERSALE4U ) on cards and notecards (50% off), calendars (25% off), shirts (5% off) and everything else including sacred geometry posters and art prints (15% off) Offer is valid through November 25, 2012 at 11:59 PM PT. Here’s an assortment of my geometric art (plus photography from around the world, and more) you might enjoy in a variety of zazzle items. Enjoy! :-)

Spiral Beads card: sacred geometry art featured on zazzle.com

Martineau solar system calendar -12 months

Venus And Earth Orbits Per Martineau - T shirt

"Venus and Mars per Martineau" sacred geometry prints and posters

Lulu sale: 51% off calendars; 30% off everything else

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Martineau solar system calendar -12 months

Lulu is having a sale: 51% off calendars; 30% off everything else; Nov. 23-27, 2012. Use code “DELIRITAS” at checkout.
Here’s an interplanetary visionary calendar you might enjoy. More about the “Martineau Solar System” calendar here and related posters, cards, shirts, etc. here.

Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook - Universal Dimensional Patterns by Bruce Rawles
Lulu has done a great job printing my work for many years. Thanks, Lulu! … and thanks to all of you for your support! Enjoy the sale! :-)

CAD programs for geometric art, design, mandalas, etc.

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I recently received this inquiry: “Please suggest a suitable CAD software that I can use to create my own sacred geometry designs. Thanks!” I thought the question was general enough to post a reply as a blog post.

Over the years, I have used a handful of CAD programs. Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook was made using mostly ClarisCAD (a now obsolete MacOS program) with a little bit of PhotoShop (front cover and adjusting Nancy’s illustration of a sphere), Excel (for the tables in the back) and a stereogram app (GraphX, I think it was) for the stereogram in the back of the book. If was to do that book over, I’d definitely consider using Adobe Illustrator or a similar app.

The few illustrations in the 2nd book The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation were done using Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop primarily, with the cover artwork also incorporating a ray-traced mandala made with POVray. POVray for the Mac has been updated in recent years by MegaPOV.

The GeometryCode.com website has incorporated artwork from all these and more, when one includes imagery and animation from other artists. Among the most notable of these contributions are some superb animations done by Dave Van Dyke of Z-axis Graphics, using 3DStudioMax (Windows only).

In general, I prefer using a vector art program for making mandalas, logos and line art that can be scaled to any resolution, such as Adobe Illustrator.
Once the line art has been fine tuned, it can be imported into PhotoShop (or other raster/bit-map oriented applications) for adjustment, sizing, etc. and adding other graphics elements and details.

The ability to step and repeat in x and y axes (translation) is a key ability for making tessellations, grids and tiling patterns.
The ability to step and repeat around a point by a specified angle (rotation) is a key ability for making mandalas.
The ability to step and repeat scaled copies by a specified percentage (scaling) is a key ability for making fractals.
(Adobe) Illustrator does all these, and there are other programs that do this as well. There are too many graphics programs to mentions, but these are some of the ones I’ve used.