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GeometryCode.com Survey

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Thanks to all of you for your continued and ongoing support of this labor of love website!

It has been quite a while since we’ve had a reader survey or poll! Here are the results of the last one from the turn of the millennium:

 

Here’s an opportunity to share your geometric interests, passions, curiosities, favorite topics, and whatever you think will be helpful, useful, and fun!

Please share your interests, wish lists, and thoughts on existing and unexplored subjects via this survey to help guide our content priorities.

Geometric Lamps … and Coloring Pages by HYBYCOZO / COZO

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A while ago, geometer colleagues alerted me to some remarkable geometric lamps by COZO (many using classic Platonic Solid foundations) with elaborate patterns on each face, making for a lovely immersive light experience as these patterns are projected onto walls, ceiling, and floor. Here’s an example of a Dodecahedron Lamp with an inset Flower of Life pattern in each of the 12 pentagonal faces:

Dodecahedron Lamp with an inset Flower of Life pattern in each of the 12 pentagonal faces

Returning to the HYBYCOZO website, I discovered that they also offer nice collections of geometric coloring pages – both free and paid options. Here is an example of one of the free patterns in the free collection. The HYBYCOZO coloring book features some fine examples of tesselations, Islamic-inspired patterns, a bit of non-Euclidean geometry, and more.

These patterns are a good complement (with minimal overlap) to the wide variety of geometric patterns in Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS) Universal Dimensional Patterns. This timeless resource/reference book of geometric patterns has been assisting and inspiring geometric enthusiasts since 1997.

3D Hexagonal … and other … jewelry

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I recently learned about some exquisite jewelry from Rebecca Li; such as her “SIGNATURE SIX SENSES TALISMAN” series:

“My mission is to help us touch Mindfulness, and I do that through objects of modern art–because art is magical; I believe it has the power to take us to the present moment.”

… and her additional commentary about what inspired her to make these jewelry gems:

My inspiration for designing Six Senses Talisman Collection:

    Why the hexagon?

When I was thinking about designing a piece of pendant talisman, I knew I wanted to use a gemstone as the main element, but I struggled to come up with a unique shape that really resonated with me. Then an interesting thing happened to me. I started to see hexagons everywhere unexpectedly, to the point, I couldn’t ignore them anymore. I took it as a sign; I just knew I should use hexagons as my building block in my talisman design.

    Why hexagonal crystal points?

This particular shape is the result of one hexagon rotating in space. Imaging a hexagon standing up with one diagonal being the center line, rotating this hexagon 60 degrees six times and connecting those points together then we get this hexagonal crystal point. My message here is six. We say intuition is our sixth sense. I feel like this 3D shape is the perfect interpretation of my message.

    Hidden Flower of Life and Seed of Life:

I see the hexagon as the minimalist interpretation of Flower of Life as well as Seed of Life. The hexagon contains those two powerful ancient sacred geometries.

Design elements in her jewelry:

  • Natural healing gemstones
  • Solid gold
  • Sacred Geometry
  • Modern minimalist style

More info here.

Rebecca Li - jewelry example: SIGNATURE SIX SENSES TALISMAN

Beading in 3D, 120-cell 3D printed models and more

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Half of a 120-cell (3D printed model)

I received a general question via email from a visitor to GeometryCode.com interested in beading 3-dimensional shapes. Here are the results of my explorations in the process of very quickly researching this question, and my response:

Since your original question was about beading – although many of these may not have geometric aspects of interest – here are some example of 3D beading quite a few example videos of 3D beading that might be helpful.

Since a new dimension is being added (with infinite variations on what can be added to go from 2D to 3D) there are numerous ways to make a 3D pattern from a 2D pattern; these include:

  1. extruding (translation of ) a 2D shape: just making identical copies of the 2D pattern stacked atop each other
  2. rotation or reflection of a 2D shape around either the X or Y (or another axis in the plane of the 2D image)
  3. using other symmetry or symmetries within the 2D object(s) to replicate aspects into the z-axis
  4. countless other variations …

If you already have a 3D image in mind (such as you will find in Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook on pages 189 (Great Pyramid fold-up model) or Platonic and Archimedean Solids, variations, etc. 196-229 or (space filling polyhedra and close-packing of spheres on page 239, for example) you already have a 3-dimensional pattern to start with. If you have a specific media (such as beading, stained glass, wood-working, welding, Zometool, 3D printing, magnetic spheres, or countless other media variations), you will have other constraints and opportunities to explore. In order to assist further, I would need to know which image on which page in SGDS – since there are over 1300 images in the book! – you have in mind to use for your 3D design.

If you want to make a prototype (or multiple identical copies) you might want to explore 3D printing. There are now somewhat affordable 3D printers, and lots of local 3D printing services. Here’s an example (the “Half of a 120-cell” image on this page) of a 3D-printed geometric shape with kudos to Henry Segerman and Saul Schleimer. Be sure to watch the videos in addition to on this page about the associated images, such as Quintessence (which evidently is also a 3D/4D puzzle/toy which looks wonderful), Triple helix, and Triple gear; fascinating! … and don’t forget to check out the 3D art of Bathsheba who has some exquisite 3D geometric art. :-)

GeometryCode bulletin for November 2014

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(1) News, Events, Interviews, Workshops, Classes, Exhibits, Products, Articles, Tutorials

Fibonacci Garden - DVD artwork

Fibonacci Garden: Mathematics in the Plant World – New DVD from Michael Schneider

I just today received “Fibonacci Garden: Mathematics in the Plant World“, the latest DVD from Michael S. Schneider, author of the superb book A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Michael Schneider (which I often recommend as a companion to Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook.) I haven’t had time to watch it, but based on his Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe book and related DVDs (all excellent), I can already recommend it highly. I’ll do a more detailed review in next month’s bulletin – make that this month’s (December 2014) bulletin, since it just became December while I was typing this. :-)

Truncated icosahedron with seed of life faces, and more geometric jewelry

New geometric creations from Ka Gold Jewelry

Artists at Ka Gold Jewelry keep adding exquisite new artistic creations to their prolific line of geometrically inspired, mystical, cosmic jewelry. New items include a vesica-piscis-yin-yang-entangled pendant, star tetrahedra with and without enclosing spheres, Flower of Life, Seed of Life, zodiacal emblems and a truncated icosahedron (i.e. soccer ball shape) with each face a seed of life shape … and much more. Their geometric and design artistry draws from a diversity of cultural traditions and contemporary visionary interpretations. You might want to benefit from their current seasonal 15% discount; use Coupon Code – KAGOLD2014 – valid until December 24, 2014. Here are more photos of recent additions to the Ka Gold Jewelry line.

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(3) Request for Submissions

As always, please let me know how I might support you. Please send me any interesting items about sacred geometry or related interests … since everything is inter-related!If you would like to stay connected and network with kindred souls online, check out my pages on
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn. I always enjoy connecting with both recent and long-time friends and colleagues and discovering new friends of friends :-)Thanks for your interest & support! :-) BTW, I always appreciate enthusiastic reviews on the Amazon SGDS book page, and the newer Amazon book page for The Geometry Code. It’s a good “win-win” way to cross-promote your work as well.

If you like to color with colored pencils (or other media), make 3-D fold-up geometric art, do stained glass, quilts, geometric arts and/or crafts, or just want an extensive reference/resource of geometric archetypes, patterns and essential line art, you might enjoy a copy of my first book, Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook: Universal Dimensional Patterns.

If your leanings are more metaphysical … and perhaps whimsical :-) … you might enjoy my second book, The Geometry Code: Universal Symbolic Mirrors of Natural Laws Within Us; Friendly Reminders of Inclusion to Forgive the Dreamer of Separation. It was originally going to have geometry and Hermetic Laws/symbolism as a primary focus, but in 2007, a reawakened interest in the spiritual masterpiece, A Course In Miracles – thanks to Gary Renard – shifted the primary emphasis to an exploration of the two thought fundamental systems we all vacillate between, and how we can gradually shift our mind’s identity to the happy one.

Bruce Rawles
PO Box 192, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104
author of The Geometry Code book; co-author of The Geometry Code screensaver
author of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook
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