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GeometryCode bulletin for December 2014

Wednesday, 31 December 2014 by Bruce Rawles

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

Solar System Geometry Calendars for 2015

The popular Martineau Solar System Series calendar for 2015 is still available. The models depicting averaged (circular rather than elliptical) orbit relationships are astonishingly accurate … and simple! Enjoy! :-)

You can order the 2015 Martineau-inspired Solar System calendar here.

Interview with Starr Fuentes

On November 27, 2014 I was the guest of long-time fellow geometer and sacred geometry enthusiast, Starr Fuentes on her BlogTalkRadio show, Starr Gazing Radio. I shared some of the historical precedents of my interest in the subject and much more. I’m scheduled to be a presenter at her conference next June 13-14 in Hot Springs, Arkansas; stay tuned!

Great Pyramid and more – another interview with Dave Cohen

Dave Cohen (a.k.a. Davie Crockett) and I did another interview on 21 December, 2014, on his LA Talk Radio show covering interconnectedness, shared interests, the Hermetic Law of Mentalism, oneness, Platonic philosophy and geometry, metaphysics in general, our usual romp through sacred geometry – a few tangents like the timeless movie Joyeaux Noël – and an extended segment on the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.

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

Last month I indicated that I would do a more proper review of “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 only had time to watch about half of it–busy month!–but what I saw and heard (earlier today) was superb, and already surpassed my high expectations. I recommend it highly. I’ll do a more detailed review in next month’s (January 2015) bulletin. Thanks for your patience. If you’re a math educator or sacred geometry enthusiast, you won’t regret getting a copy for your collection.

(2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes

Khan Academy has LOTS of great tutorial info on geometry
Chad Adams’ Extended Fibonacci Series Facebook page
A reader’s email question about geometric constructions of an ellipse led to this MathWorld page about the ellipse, another from ‘ancient curve drawers‘, and another about the foci of ellipses.
The image for this month’s bulletin was a screen snap from the lavishly illustrated video: The Lost Scale Extended Version – by David Sereda which explores non-distoring harmonic scales

(3) Request for Submissions

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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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GeometryCode bulletin for November 2014

Monday, 1 December 2014 by Bruce Rawles

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

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. :-)

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.

(2) Websites, Books, Videos, Imagery, Music and Quotes

Nassim Haramein’s vortex math video and math
Chestahedron? A 7-sided quasi-Platonic form with equal area faces
some classic 2-D geometric line art polygon and fractal archetypes
Platonic Solids and their relation to the Flower of Life pattern
article: The Sacred Geometry of Sound and Vibration
Burning Man Time-Lapse video of a pyramid cluster
Bucky Fuller-inspired partial-geodesic chairs
Photographer Renee Cox uses multiple human forms to make geometric mandalas, fractals, etc.
Stonehenge researchers discover site is much larger than previously thought
Intrinity geometry jewelry
Monadology: “Existence is based on monism, not dualism, because there is no sufficient reason why existence should produce an arbitrary number of incompatible substances. If it generated such substances, it would generate an infinite number, not just two. In fact, what existence does is generate infinite instances of one substance. That one substance MUST contain, at least in elementary form, every property that will be exhibited in the universe.”

(3) Request for Submissions

Golden Ratio and sound – John Chowning synthesis

Tuesday, 7 October 2014 by Bruce Rawles

Being a fan of early electronic music, I recently watched a DVD documentary entitled “Ohm+: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music“, featuring pioneers like Robert Moog and others in that genre of musical experimenters. I was happy to discover that track 14 featured a synthesized composition (computer-generated) with both partials (harmonics) and relative timing of notes based on the golden ratio by FM synthesis pioneer John Chowning of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Here is an audio clip and some screenshots (both taken with my iPhone so the quality isn’t quite as nice as it could be, but I was a bit lazy), but you’ll get the idea and can rent this on Netflix (or elsewhere) if you’re interested. Ignore the cat meows, which aren’t on the original. :-)

Years ago, when I was studying electronic music at University of California Davis with Tony Gnazzo and Jan Pusina (the instructors there at the time), I recall learning of Chowning’s work during that era, and in particular of his using a tetrahedral arrangement of speakers (1 directly overhead, the other 3 equally spaced at 120 degree angles from the listener) to do acoustically realistic 4-channel audio spatial modulation. I remember that one of his experiments was taking a recording (using 4 microphones with the same 3-D spacing) to simulate a fly buzzing around someone’s head, and being able to simulate this using computer-generated 3-D spatial modulation.)

Enjoy!

GeometryCode bulletin for June 2014

Monday, 30 June 2014 by Bruce Rawles

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

Toroids make cameo appearance in warp drive prototype

Ready to travel at warp speed? It looks like the familiar geometry of our friendly (galactic) neighborhood torus might factor into future warp drives. Here’s an interesting article and a related one: NASA Reveals Latest Warp-Drive Ship Designs – that – once again – suggests that Gene Roddenberry was on the right track. NASA’s Advanced Propulsion Lead, Dr. Harold White gives a talk about how Faster-Than-Light (FTL) travel might actually work – thanks to Dave Van Dyke of Z-Axis Graphics for this link.

… and in the ‘closer to home’ appropriate technology arena, another geometric icon, the spiral shows up in home energy systems…

Archimedes: a new efficient wind generator design uses a spiral form

How about an 80% efficiency ratio for a home power wind turbine design? This new wind power capturing technology leverages the intrinsic efficiency of the spiral form to harness wind energy for small homes and apartments … or perhaps an array for larger systems? I sure saw a lot of larger wind turbines on my recent trip to California; wind farms in Wyoming, and in California east of Livermore over Altamont Pass, near Tehachapi, Palm Springs, and San Gorgino Pass. Why not combine solar and wind.

Martineau Solar System Geometries art reception and end of exhibit in Castle Rock, CO

I will be appearing at a “Meet the Artists” reception in the CR Bank Room East at the Castle Rock library on July 8, 2014 from 7-8PM. This will conclude the multi-month exhibit of all 12 of my “Martineau Solar System” series framed giclées prints, plus 24 framed acrylic, collage and mixed media art images by Nancy Bolton-Rawles on display at the Philip S. Miller Public Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock, Colorado 80104 during regular library hours. This is the first public exhibit for either of us since we moved to Colorado almost 3 years ago… You can find upcoming, ongoing and past exhibits, classes and other events here. LOTS more details about the individual images are in the April 2014 bulletin.

Find Your Geometry Name

In case you missed it, here’s a quick, fun diversion to help you find your ‘geometry name‘ using the first letter of your first and last name. Enjoy! :-)