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GeometryCode bulletin – May 2015

Sunday, 31 May 2015 by Bruce Rawles

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Our Virtual Reality Video of the Mind

Dave Cohen (a.k.a. Davie Crockett) and I shared a conversation on 17 May 2015, on his LA Talk Radio show starting with the article noted below Quantum Entanglement Verified: Why Space Is Just The Construct That Gives The Illusion Of Separate Objects, and moved from there into subjects like holography and the notion that we can benefit from considering that our mind projects it’s own unimaginably vast and complex virtual reality movie, 24/7/365; movies such as Truman Show, Matrix, Men in Black, and even Horton Hears a Who are pondered as metaphors.

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

A flickr site with a generous assortment of magnetic sphere geometry photos, including the lovely image above
Thanks to Michael Heleus for alerting me to this page of abundant gematria links to explore
Yet another article revealing that science inevitably must deal with the ‘elephant in the room’ of mind: Quantum Entanglement Verified: Why Space Is Just The Construct That Gives The Illusion Of Separate Objects; more about Quantum Entanglement and Holographic principle.
DataIsNature: polyhedral (and other) models made of toroidal ring faces; some lovely drawings
Excellent videos: A Unifying Topology of Fractal Fields and Golden Ratio Starship, Orb & Lightbody Construction and THE MAN WHO SAVED GEOMETRY (about geometer luminary Donald Coxeter author of Regular Polytopes and other seminal works about geometries of dimensions higher than 3D, among other fascinating topics) by Grayham Forscutt (with numerous additional videos on his YouTube page; notice the numerous interesting models including Zometool realizations.
Many thanks to Jim Sather, who contacted me noticed a couple of errata in Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS page 243) and on the Polyhedra: Math Tables for Platonic And Archimedean Solids page; both now fixed: (1) For the snub cube, the 142°59′ entry was moved from the 4-4 column to the 3-4 column, and (2) for the snub dodecahedron, no angles are listed for the 3-8, 4-5 columns. The latter fix was not needed in the book, but somehow crept into the table on the website. Any books printed after 1June2015 will have the corrections. Much appreciated!
article about a Kickstarter campaign for Sankakkei, a 3D fractal puzzle based on sacred geometry: Gadgets & Gizmos: A New Puzzle Or Customizable Art Sculpture, Based On The Geometry Of Life
a Facebook page with nice imagery of a Flower of Life Truncated Octahedron,
and another 2D to 3D exploration of the FOL – Ball Of Life Pendant

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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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NOVA – The Great Math Mystery

Tuesday, 14 April 2015 by Bruce Rawles

Looks like an interesting program … I’m looking forward to watching this PBS program!

“Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math’s astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math’s signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?”

NOVA PRESENTS
The Great Math
Mystery
Airing Wednesday,
April 15, 2015 at 9 pm on PBS
(Check local listings)

GeometryCode bulletin for March 2015

Tuesday, 31 March 2015 by Bruce Rawles

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Buckyball turns 30

In 1985, a new form of carbon molecule was discovered with 60 carbon atoms (C60) which was named the “Buckyball” in honor of Buckminster Fuller’s nickname “Bucky” and the general class of materials were christened as “Fullerenes.” If you’ve ever examined the geometry of a geodesic dome, the familiar pattern of triangle-subdivided hexagons and pentagons will intuitively remind you that this shape is a close approximation of a sphere using linear elements. This quasi-rounded shape’s closeness to a sphere, combined with Fuller’s ‘tensegrity‘ – the robustness of using only triangular elements – contributes to it’s outstanding strength for a given amount of structural material; I decided to build a geodesic dome home in 1978 after seeing a Cathedralite Dome (the only vendor at the time that paid royalties to Bucky Fuller) that had a massive oak tree crash onto it… Only a few asphalt shingles needed to be replaced; any other structure would have likely been demolished by the tonnage of the oak’s limbs. Another property owing to the spherical mimicry is the close-to-maximal amount of enclosed volume for a given amount of structural material; a very efficient shape indeed!

Here’s more about these interesting geometric nano-materials that assume the familiar Archimedean Solid (polyhedron) shape of Truncated Icosahedron; most folks think of the soccer ball shape and a quote from the related Wikipedia article on them:

“The discovery of fullerenes greatly expanded the number of known carbon allotropes, which until recently were limited to graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon such as soot and charcoal. Buckyballs and buckytubes have been the subject of intense research, both for their unique chemistry and for their technological applications, especially in materials science, electronics, and nanotechnology.”

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

In Fake Universes, Evidence for String Theory
A paper on golden spirals: Alloy Sequence – Alloy Spiral by T. R. Phillips
thanks to my sister for alerting me to Andrew Norman’s Sacred Geometry with plans of Chartres Cathedral and music inspired by it; his music has won a Berlin Prize
Deep space galactic doppler imaging: Best 3D View of Deep Universe Reveals Astonishing Details (Video)
A nice photo blog with imagery of the Great Pyramid and the Giza Plateau near Cairo, Egypt
video: Optical Glass Sculptures by fine art glass artist Jack Storms – The Glass Sculptor he uses Fibonacci proportions in his 3D glass work.
Classic new age music “Angels of Comfort” by Iasos
a Sacred Geometry Facebook page
Robin Eley – Artist – Troika, squaring the circle, Kohn Gallery thanks to another fellow geometer, Liberty McGeo, for the heads-up! :-)

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GeometryCode bulletin for February 2015

Saturday, 28 February 2015 by Bruce Rawles

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Lots of interesting geometric images, videos and links this month

I’ll resume featured content next month; meanwhile, enjoy a plethora of fascinating things in the world of geometrical and related interests; I had another fun conversation with David Cohen, too.

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

Blooms: Strobe-Animated Sculptures – exquisite Fibonacci blossom videos! Note the connection to Michael Schneider’s pinecone Fibonacci examples in last month’s bulletin. Here’s the write-up featuring the golden angle: “What you are viewing in each of the above videos is a bloom spinning at 550 RPMs while being videotaped at 24 frames-per-second with a very fast shutter speed (1/4000 sec). The rotation speed is carefully synchronized to the camera’s frame rate so that one frame of video is captured every time the bloom turns ~137.5º—the golden angle. Each petal on the bloom is placed at a unique distance from the top-center of the form. If you follow what appears to be a single petal as it works its way out and down the bloom, what you are actually seeing is all the petals on the bloom in the order of their respective distances from the top-center. Read on to learn more about how these blooms were made, why the golden angle is such an important angle, and how these are related to the Fibonacci numbers.”
Sacred Geometry 2015 Conference in New York: Roger Green’s conference in April 2015; more details when available
FaceBook pages of interest: Spirit Science, Fractal Enlightenment, Flower of Life Society/Culture Website, Phi – 1:1.618 – the Golden Ratio Community, Nassim Haramein
Public Figure, Applied Sacred Geometrics TV, Cosmometry Facebook page
Constructed using over one thousand aluminium and polished copper drops, an indoor rain installation has wowed visitors to Singapore’s Changi International Airport
Nigel Stanford’s music videos: Cymatics, TimeScapes, and Solar Echoes music; for more about Cymatics, check out Jeff Volk’s Cymatics Source website and Adam Reed’s Cymascope imagery; more on the Cymascope.
We all get Academy Awards for acting! David Cohen and Bruce Rawles talk about luminary theatrics; Dave (a.k.a. Davie Crockett) and I shared a conversation on 22 February 2015, on his LA Talk Radio show. Our conversation theme coincided with the annual Academy Awards that evening, so we had fun examining the theater dream metaphors we’re all living and how – as Shakespeare said – all the world’s a stage.
3Quarks » Platonic Solids has rotating polyhedra animations for the 5 regular Platonic Solids
“Bucky” Buckminster Fuller Future Organization is calling for artists for a juried show: Buckminster Fuller and the Sacred Geometry of Nature (March 1-April 6, 2015 at the Morris Library of the Southern Illinois University; here is a poster for the event.
Thanks to fellow ‘hedronist’ a.k.a. geometer and lucid dream researcher, Ed Kellogg, for alerting me to this interesting article about geometric folding and looping in the genome: Genetic Geometry Takes Shape; check out the fun and interesting origami video, too. Recall that the cross-section of DNA’s double helix geometry is a decagon (or a pair of pentagons rotated 36° around their shared center), and one complete turn of each spiral is 34 Å (ångströms) long and 21 Å in diameter; familiar adjacent Fibonacci numbers whose ratio is part of the infinite sequence that converges on the Golden Ratio. $Moore curve: stages 1 through 4 (rectangular 2-dimensional fractal)$

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GeometryCode bulletin for January 2015

Saturday, 31 January 2015 by Bruce Rawles

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

For the past two months 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.) Earlier this month, I finally finished watching it’s generous content – give your self multiple hours to savor it, since it is packed with lavish visuals, photos and illustrations … I recommend it highly. If you’re a math educator, math historian, prime number theorist, botanist, geneticist, stock market analyst or sacred geometry enthusiast, you won’t regret getting a copy for your collection. Note the ‘golden angle’ (360°/2ø) = 137.507…° which also appears in the Blooms: Strobe-Animated Sculptures which I will describe in more detail in next month’s post. Here is a Fibonacci-inspired composition that Schneider refers to in the video: Béla Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, I. Rather than write about his insightful narration and imagery, I’ll let a few screen snaps convey a sense of what the DVD contains. There are hundreds of fascinating slides in this video, covering numerous aspects of how Fibonacci numbers and related sacred geometry topics reach into myriad areas of our lives; here are just a small handful of screen shots – please forgive the hand-held cell-phone photo quality; there’s no distortion or blurriness in the actual video:

In addition to an extensive bibliography at the end of the DVD, here are some of the websites that Michael references:

Fibonacci Quarterly
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section
US Patent and Trademark Office (search using the words Fibonacci, Golden Ratio and Golden Mean)
USDA Plant Gallery (countless examples of Fibonacci numbers)

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

an introduction to the EarthStar Globe by colleague Dan Shaw; among other familiar geometric curiosities, he details 62 terrestrial vertices at intersections of the 30 rhombic elements of this unique polyhedron
ESPL: Dances of the Planets – ‘string art’ and other planetary orbit images inspired by The book, ‘A Little Book of Coincidence‘ by John Martineau, as were my POV-Ray planetary images, available as greeting cards, posters, apparel, calendars and more.
Sisyphus, Golden Globes, Polytopes, and Rhythmic Cycles – an interview of Bruce Rawles by Dave Cohen