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.
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Rotating cube with optical caustics
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.
Martineau Solar System Calendars – updated for 2020 … same low price!
I just updated this sacred geometry calendar which has images from the fascinating geometric Martineau Solar System models. Here are details about the 12 images which are highly accurate geometric models of pairs of planetary orbits in our solar system. They were inspired by the remarkable work of John Martineau (publisher of Wooden Books), who wrote “A Little Book of Coincidence in the Solar System.” 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.
Background Video, Info and Exhibits of the Martineau Solar System
Quantum Sierpinski Fractals and Dodecahedral Bubbles
A couple of fun geometry videos:
Fun video with 1.58 dimensional tiny fractals: Scientists Trapped Electrons In a Quantum Fractal
A video with a particularly nice dodecahedral bubble …
including a bubble resembling a Reuleaux Tetrahedron.
… and a nearby beach bubble photo taken by my wife, Nancy.
Assorted 3D model geometry links of interest
Here are some fun and engaging geometries du jour:
- HexaSticks 3D model … rotate it! … Can we pencil in this one? :-) Not a space-filling model, but it does use some neat hexagonal geometries that align surfaces.
- Pyrimid Fractal 3D model – stellated tetrahedra using 1/3 side length for each iteration to avoid “collisions”
- A progression of dodecahedral stellations … Here’s a related 3D rendering I did many years ago
- … and a neat combo of a gray solid fractal dodecahedron with an adjacent color version that is a “cutaway” that has a “thunder egg” quality to it… neat!
- JUST FOR BEAUTY N°5 … similar grayscale/color 3D model with neat “pentagonal windows” in the zoomed in interior view
- TABLE ICOSAHEDRON SHAPE MULTI POLYHEDRON – a 3D model “grid” assortment of familiar polyhedra
- TABLE POLYHEDRAL (GOOD COTATION) – another 3D model “grid” assortment of familiar polyhedra (somewhat grouped by “family” along 2 axes)
Still 11 months left in 2019 if you want a cool astronomical geometric calendar! :-)