Origami Artwork from Thomas Hull (on flickr) Origami Master Thomas Hull gets a flickr account, and uploads some of his old tessellation work. look and learn, people! some great stuff here. It’s like christmas in January. [math professor + tessellations = crazy delicious.] (tags: thomasHull origami tessellations flickr photos artwork mathematics geometry)
:: ROGER KNOX FINE ART :: Red Algorithm. Sometimes you find the most interesting things via your referrer links- I found the artwork of Roger Knox, who has some very interesting abstract art! I particularly like this one, as it reminds me of particle trails from a supercollider (physics: my first love!) some very organic, chaotic, and unique works. Glad to stumble across your site this morning, Roger! And of course he lives in the City by the Bay, the Jewel of the west coast- San Francisco. I need a good excuse to move there. I’m open for suggestions. anyone?
(4.6.4.12) tessellation Originally uploaded by tomster0. So on my daily early morning reading, I found this post on Tom Hull’s LiveJournal site. He created a flickr account (tomster0) and uploaded a nice little pile of his old tessellations, as well as crease patterns for many of them. “Oh Frabjous Joy!” was the first thought that popped into my head on reading this. He mentions that he folded these back in his grad school days (94-95), inspired by the works of Fujimoto and Palmer. I have to say that there is something particularly gratifying about seeing these kinds of things folded by a math professor, as his understanding of the underlying geometries is above and beyond the rest of us mathematical laymen. Hopefully we can convince him to post these to the Origami Tessellations photo pool on flickr. They would certainly be a more than welcome entry! This particular photo, his 4.6.4.12 tessellation, is a new pattern to me… he mentions that it’s the first time (to his knowledge) that dodecagon twists were successfully incorporated into …
祝您 豿年新年快楽! Fook Originally uploaded by hale_popoki. From my flickr friend Tina, who is most likely the coolest teacher in San Francisco. “Fook” (rhymes with “book”….in Cantonese) is the Chinese character for good fortune/good luck. Part of the kindergarten teacher’s Chinese New Year bulletin board display at my school. Made from lucky red envelopes. (my apologies to all those literate readers for mixing Mandarin and Cantonese on the same page.)
Making Light: The life expectancies of books A wonderful article on the reality of today’s “Life of author + 70 years” copyright, and it’s impact on the publishing world. (tags: copyright publicdomain books publishing freedom reality)
