Sunday 28 February 2010

John Pickering's Sculptures

John Pickering is a british sculptor who used the geometric principle of inversion since the 1970s. A book about his great work is published by the AA: Mathematical form: John Pickering and the architecture of the inversion






Monday 15 February 2010

Kusner Minimal Surface

Discovered by Rob Kusner, Director of the Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics (GANG). The Kusner surface is an inversion of the Boy surface. The three discs are planes "reaching infinity".

Saturday 6 February 2010

Le Topologicon

Le Topologicon is a great comic book about topology. The author is Jean-Pierre Petit who discovered the first parameterization of the boy surface in 1981. He is also the co-founder of the non-profit organization Savoir-sans-frontiers. The book deals with moebius strips, klein bottles, boy surfaces, magnetic fields, surface stiching and a lot more interesting topics. In my opinion, the Topologicon is a must-read for everyone dealing with surface modelling, mesh modelling, subdivision surfaces, surface tesselation, vector fields, deformations, or topological space. Some example pages:



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