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Fractal Fruit: Produce Carved into Elaborate Geometric Patterns

20 Apr

[ By SA Rogers in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

The mathematical precision of the patterns cut into raw fruits and vegetables is almost too perfect to be real, but on top of that, Japanese artist Gaku has to work as rapidly as possible to capture a photo of the finished product before it starts to turn brown. Imagine how hard that is with apples and avocados! ‘Mukimono’ is the Japanese art of food carving based in the idea of taking time to appreciate food before it’s consumed. But while many people are dazzled by the elaborate carvings, others are disturbed.

Clearly, it takes a practiced eye and a steady hand to deftly carve out each temporary masterpiece, especially considering that the patterns are so perfectly sized and spaced, they could be computer generated. Gaku says he learned the art five or six years ago, and that he’s a chef by trade, but rarely gets to use his carving skills at work.

You could say it’s too beautiful to eat – or maybe you’d say it’s terrifying. Buzzfeed rounded up a bunch of hilarious Twitter reactions to the work, ranging from “This kind of pisses me off and I don’t know why” to “I want to punch this food.” Perhaps these folks have undiagnosed cases of trypophobia (irrational fear of holes), intensified by the fact that it’s something you’re supposed to put in your mouth?

@Colossal this makes me want to vomit idk why

— mirel (@millenniumofme) March 6, 2017

@Colossal @modelady24 This triggers some serious chills in my body for some reason. Its almost creepy.

— Dæn (@LotusDreaming) March 4, 2017

@NerdyAsians @hellomizzyy This is terrifying

— sentient ham (@polearmguy) March 6, 2017

This kind of pisses me off and I don't know why https://t.co/Wh8VSpb2wg

— Dad Liker™ (@battletir) March 5, 2017

@Colossal I want to punch this food.

— Catkinosaur (@LaFilleUneFunke) March 5, 2017

See more of Gaku’s work on his Instagram.

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Golden Ratio in Action: Coloring Book & Animations of Geometric Illustrations

01 Mar

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Drawing & Digital. ]

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The Golden Ratio has been a source of inspiration (and contention) for thousands of years, lurking behind great works of design. Venezuelan architect and illustrator Rafael Araujo is fascinated with patterns of nature and their applications to built environments, but as his artwork shows, is particularly interested in the Golden Ratio as found in natural settings.

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These painstakingly created drawings trace this ratio into reality, animating everything from fluttering bird wings to the formation of seashells. Some of these sophisticated works take days or even weeks to complete — fans can also get in on the action with his recently created coloring book.

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This coloring book provides a version of his pieces as frameworks for others to complete. The artist got the idea after fans started asking for prints, seeing it as a way to bring them into the process rather than simply giving them a framed product.

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Using pencils, rulers, compasses and protractors, he spends as much as 100 hours on a given illustration of these mathematical expressions. Leftover lines, like those found faded in architectural drawings, give extra depth to each piece while also highlighting the geometry that goes into it.

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His work shows how the geometric formulas of the Golden Ratio can be found in spirals of plants as well as the delicate flights of butterflies, all through hand drawings of each phenomenon. And as fascinating as they are in their finished form, animated images and process videos of the works in progress are especially intriguing.

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Part of the challenge in his representations is their three-dimensional nature — showing complex organic curves accurately in 3D is an incredibly difficult feat of science applied to art. At the same time, something would be lost if these creations were simply done using computer programs (h/t Colossal).

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23 Geometric Images of Quadrangles or Squares

26 Feb

Finding geometric shapes to photograph is a great exercise for beginners. It helps train your eye to look for something specific.

A quadrangle (also known commonly as a square, of course) is easily found in many places. Look around you, how many do you see in your room?

Here are some images of squares – either cropped into the square format, or subjects the represent the shape – as interpreted by a few different photographers:

By Wicker Paradise

By torbakhopper

By stuart hines

By Dustin Gaffke

By The Hamster Factor

By John Catbagan

By Jordi E

By Michael Pardo

By David Santaolalla

By Jed Sullivan

By ? ? ? ?

By Kevin Chan

By Vitor Antunes

By Marcy Leigh

By Ynot-Na

By Timothy Neesam

By DurhamDundee

By Carol Von Canon

By tommpouce

By Matthew G

By VirtualWolf

By Henk Sijgers

By jr2142

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Geometric Monsters: Download, Print & Make DIY Halloween Masks

12 Oct

[ By WebUrbanist in Design & Products & Packaging. ]

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This holiday season brings fresh printer-compatible designs of low-poly skeletons, monsters, animals and more for the do-it-yourself costumer, all scaled to fit an adult or resizable for children.

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diy articulated dragon

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Like a polygon mesh in 3D computer graphics (that has a relatively small number of polygons), these masks are leant a haunting effect unique to the digital age, looking otherworldly and surreal like low-resolution computer renderings.

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diy tailed fish

Some models are more complex than others, involving sets of articulated parts that rotate on simple hinges or pivots, like the tail of a fish, trunk of an elephant or the hands of a dragon.

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The key ingredients: a printer, some paper of applicable color, glue sticks, craft knife, tape, cardboard and an elastic headband. If you have more time than money, or simply enjoy the process, these models provide a great balance of personal work and creativity within a ready-made outline.

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diy bunny rabbit

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From their maker, Wintercroft on Etsy, who sells the plans online: “The instructions and templates are designed to be quick and easy to follow. The finished masks are pretty robust due the their polygon construction and will survive the wildest of parties.

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diy fox people

diy owl mask

More on Steven Wintercroft: “By nature I am obsessively creative and starting making things as a kid with my granddad. I studied Art and design, then furniture studies and have been designing and building custom surfboards since I was a teenager. I’ve worked as a cabinet maker but have spent most of my time as a full time surfboard shaper. I believe that the urge to create is a fundamental part of being human and these masks provide an excuse to sit down, get out the scissors, tape and paint and make something” (via Colossal).

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Scary Skylodge: Geometric Glass Hotel Pod Clings to a Cliff

09 Jul

[ By Steph in Destinations & Sights & Travel. ]

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Clinging to a craggy cliff like an oversized artificial barnacle, this pod is only accessible to those willing to scale the 400-foot rock face from the base of a Peruvian mountain. If you’re brave and hardy enough to pull off that feat, you’ll probably do just fine taking up residence in a hotel room that the rest of us will only ever have nightmares about. In addition to its precarious location, the Natura Vive Skylodge is completely transparent, so you can’t exactly forget that you’re hundreds of feet in the air while inside.

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As fragile as they look, these three pods are made of aerospace aluminum and weather-resistant polycarbonate, so they’re not likely to be blown down or punctured in a storm. At 25 feet long and 8 feet wide, each one is spacious enough to accommodate eight guests, offering comfortable beds, a dining room and even a private bathroom.

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The journey to the pod is actually safer than it looks, as climbers can be tied to a steel cable as they traverse the trails, with ladders and bridges helping them to the top. This zipline route offers alternate access for those who aren’t experienced enough to make the climb. You can even hook yourself to the cables as you perch on a wooden observation deck positioned atop each pod, looking out over the valley.

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Solar panels capture energy to power four interior lamps and a reading light, and the ‘sink’ and toilet are dry. The roughly $ 300-per-person-per-night fee includes transportation to and from your hotel, guides, equipment, snacks, a gourmet dinner with a bottle of wine and an al fresco breakfast.

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Towers Transformed: Massive Geometric Mural Collaboration

27 Dec

[ By Steph in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

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Five distinct styles come together in a duo of massive geometric murals with ‘Recycles,’ a collaboration created for the street art curation project Urban Forms. Artists Tone, Proembrion, Sepe, Chazme and Cekas (photos by Marek Szymanski) all lent their own particular approaches to the diptych on a pair of apartment buildings in Lodz, Poland in nearly-identical compositions that create a mirrored effect when seen from afar.

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Stylized human figures are seen against a backdrop of both geometric and organic forms, which look like architecture and trees at first glance, but are actually more abstract. One mural shows the figures walking toward the viewers, and the other shows them walking away.

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According to one of the artists, the process of bringing such disparate styles together for such a large project wasn’t easy. Tone tells Brooklyn Street Art that getting a harmonious effect that represented each of them equally presented a challenge, but they ultimately found a synergy that allowed each of them to shine.

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Having worked together in the past helped, says Tone. “We have never had a chance to work together in such a configuration, but our knowledge about each others styles helped us separate our separate roles. We began with a very rough concept for the general idea; make the composition somehow integrated with the landscape of Lodz suburbs.”

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Ruins of Crumbling Church Salvaged with Geometric Addition

20 Dec

[ By Steph in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ]

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A faceted glass structure clings to the ruins of a stone church in Santpedor, Spain, filling in a gaping hole that was created with the demolition of an adjacent convent. Built modestly by priests between 1721 and 1729, the hermitage of Sant Francesc started to crumble long ago, and by 2000 the roof had sunk and the vaults of the nave and chapels had partially collapsed, leaving it looking as if it the rest of it would come down at any time.

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But anyone brave enough to step through the doors would have found an interior that was still stunning in its cavernous arched spaciousness, daylight streaming in through massive holes in the ceiling. That hint of promise, along with its historical value, is what led to the intervention by architect David Closes (photographs by Jordi Surroca.)

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Closes transformed the church with a stunning modern addition and interior renovation that integrates the character of the ruins into the new elements, creating contrast and preserving a perspective of the church’s past. Sant Francesc is now home to a multi-functional cultural center and auditorium.

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Smooth concrete and timber enhance the aged qualities of the stone in the new interiors, with partially-collapsed areas and holes simply filled in with windows to show off rather than correct the damage that was done to the structure over the centuries.

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A Different Angle: 15 Great Geometric Home Accessories

19 May

[ By Steph in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]

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Bring the clean, graphic lines of cubes, pyramids, prisms and other polyhedrons to your home with these (often literally) sharp accessories. Hand-drawn shapes on wallpaper, icosahedron salt and pepper shakers, DIY origami ornaments, modernized Himmeli mobiles and diamond-shaped cookie cutters are among these 15 affordable geometric decorative objects.

Random Geometry Wallpaper by Nama Rococo

Geometric Home Nama Rococo

The imperfect nature of hand-drawing adds a bit of a quirky feel to the ‘Random Geometry’ wallpaper by Nama Rococo. Plaster an entire room with it, create an accent wall or just frame a single sheet for $ 100.

Score + Solder Terrariums & Planters

Geometric Home Score + Solder

Glassworker Matthew Cleland of Score + Solder creates stunning geometric terrariums, planters, lamps and more, handmade to order from his 13-acre farm in British Columbia.

Octahedron Decorative Objects by Eric Trine

Geometric Home Octahedron Decor

Perfect for the mantle or as a conversation piece on the coffee table, this octahedron decorative object by Eric Trine costs just $ 32.

Pentahedron Coasters by Koromiko

Geometric Home Pentahedron Coasters

Protect your table from condensation with this set of four handmade felt pentahedron coasters, handmade in San Francisco by Koromiko, $ 40.

Icosa Salt & Pepper Shakers by Club88inc

Geometric Home Icosa Salt and Pepper

This set of icosahedron-shaped salt and pepper shakers by Club88inc, $ 35, will fit perfectly into the palm of your hand.

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Sand Cities: Geometric Architecture Sculpted from Beaches

19 Mar

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ]

geometric micro city structures

A serious step beyond traditional sand castles, these sculptural micro-structures range from simple sets of cubes to miniature buildings and architectural complexes.

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Calvin Seibert of New York recently traveled to Hawaii to complete his latest series of semi-abstract beach sculptures, employing skills he has learned as an assistant sculptor and in carpentry and construction trades.

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The results exhibit an uncanny grasp of architecture, design and composition, balancing structure and space within individual mini-buildings and larger arrays alike. Crisp edges and smooth curves make them look almost like stone or concrete.

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Some of his pieces draw on landscaped earthworks and urban layouts, while others show off a whimsical and eclectic mix of imagination, art and geometry.

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Naturally, the tides always turn on these creations, flattening them back out as the ocean rolls in, making each a temporary expression, but in many cases one could imagine a permanent, life-sized version standing the test of time.

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Origami-Inspired Architecture: 14 Geometric Structures

11 Nov

[ By Steph in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ]

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For all the effort, skill and time it takes to produce a typical work of origami, the result can be ephemeral, limited by the delicate nature of paper. But apply the same techniques and visuals to architecture, and suddenly the intriguing geometric and mathematical qualities of this ancient Japanese art take on a sense of awe-inspiring scale and permanence. Here are 14 faceted structures, from flat pack emergency shelters to multi-story museums.

Bilbao Health Department

Origami Architecture Bilbao

The folded facade of this Health Department building in Bilbao, Spain is not only a striking architectural feature, but a creative solution to a building code that requires setbacks for multi-story buildings along major streets. The origami-inspired glass is a second skin that increases energy efficiency.

Instant Flat-Pack Origami Shelter

Origami Architecture Emergency

A series of sheets unfold from a small, compact package into a three-dimensional shelter. The design, by Doowon Suh, is envisioned as a modular emergency shelter that could easily be transported and set up in the aftermath of a disaster.

Origami Office Building, Paris

Origami Architecture Office Paris

Looking like a cross between the Japanese art of origami and Art Nouveau, Manuelle Gautrand’s Origami Office Building in Paris features a double-layered curtain wall of glazing and faceted marble. The folded marble panels add an extra dimension to the building’s exterior, creating textural patterns that look fresh and modern yet blend with the adjacent historic architecture.

Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theater, Rockford, Illinois

Origami Architecture Bengt Sjostrom

Folding roof panels that open up to the sky give the Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theater at Rock Valley College in Illinois an origami feel. The transforming roof closes in poor weather conditions to ensure that the show can always go on, but maintains the feel of the outdoor theater that was formerly on the site.

Origami Disaster Cave

Origami Architecture Disaster Shelter

With a design based on a water molecule, the Digital Origami Emergency Shelter by LAVA offers temporary shelter after a disaster while “giving an opportunity for personal expression.” The wooden units can either be shipped flat-pack or cut using local plywood. Each can sleep two adults and one child, and is fitted with battery or solar-powered LED lights.

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Posts Tagged ‘Geometric’

Fractal Fruit: Produce Carved into Elaborate Geometric Patterns

Golden Ratio in Action: Coloring Book & Animations of Geometric Illustrations

23 Geometric Images of Quadrangles or Squares

Geometric Monsters: Download, Print & Make DIY Halloween Masks

Scary Skylodge: Geometric Glass Hotel Pod Clings to a Cliff

Towers Transformed: Massive Geometric Mural Collaboration

Ruins of Crumbling Church Salvaged with Geometric Addition