Zometool Factory and Denver Art Museum project

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Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the Zometool factory in Longmont, Colorado. There, my favorite (hands down!) geometric toy, er, I mean modeling system, is manufactured. Paul and Carlos gave me a tour of the amazing technology where these wonderful plastic components are made by the gazillions. The secret of the hub, rumor has [...]

Zometool builds models from SGDS

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Zometool, with the addition of green struts, can build many of the designs – both 2 and 3 dimensional – that appear in the pages of Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook (SGDS) and other 2D and 3D models. Now, more than ever, this superlative modeling system (which is also the coolest toy in the geometric Universe, [...]

Chrome Zome Jewelry

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Zometool Jewelry – featuring elegant chrome-plated Zome hubs – is now available! Nancy (our resident jeweler) says she can make these earrings with the bottom (Swarovski 6mm) crystal in a variety of colors in addition to the pink (rose) and jet black varieties shown here, including clear, aqua, blue, light blue, midnight blue, teal, green, purple, [...]

Nanodot Newbie

Nanodots Magnetic Constructors (216 NdFeB Magnets) in original packaging

I recently started experimenting with Nanodots Magnetic Constructors (a 216 magnet set of remarkably strong (and fun!) little spherical (NdFeB) magnets. They are enjoyable to play with just from a tactile, sensory perspective, since they are like a set of high-tech micro-planets you can squeeze and morph in your hand like modeling clay … and the next [...]

Hands-on sacred geometry workshop Oct. 8, 2011 in Castle Rock, CO

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I’m giving a day-long, hands-on* sacred geometry workshop from 10AM-5PM on Saturday, October 8, 2011, here at our new home in Castle Rock, Colorado. We’re about 20-60 minutes south of Denver, depending on what part of the metropolitan area you might be driving from. Cost is on a sliding scale from $25-$75 based on need. [...]

Infinite Recursive Zoom In of Nested Platonic Solids

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Infinite Nested Platonic Solid Recursion This continuous loop rotates around a nest of the five Platonic Solids: Cube (red), Tetrahedron (yellow), Octahedron (green), Icosahedron (blue) and Dodecahedron (purple), returning to a cube oriented along the same x-y-z axes one third the size in each dimension as the outer cube. The transparency of the inner cube [...]

Fractile Fun

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Fractiles are versatile geometric toys made of magnetic diamond shaped tiles. I first learned about Fractiles and Zometool in the fall of 1997 at a Sacred Geometry conference in Boulder, Colorado. While Zometool is primarily a 3D modeling system, Fractiles are generally used in just 2D. Accordingly, they make a great introduction to interesting ‘flat’ [...]

Martineau Solar System Calendars

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A newly updated calendar (which I’ll make available every year) with images from the Martineau Solar System is again available. Here’s some details about the 12 images… These images are highly accurate geometric models of our solar system. They were inspired by the remarkable work of John Martineau, who wrote “A Little Book of Coincidence”. [...]

Dodecadodecahedron screen saver

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Dave Van Dyke of Z Axis Graphics, who generated this lovely Dodecadodecahedron animation video, just generously contributed a free companion Dodecadodecahedron screen saver (Windows only; In Windows it wants to install in C:\Windows\system32\); enjoy!!! Dave’s comment about the screen saver gift: “…just thought it would be fun.” Thanks, Dave!!! Notes from the animator (Dave Van [...]

Mathematical Universe Hypothesis Emails

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I’m posting this article by Ed Kellogg, who has generously contributed many interesting ideas and links to our local Ashland, Oregon geometers group (a.k.a. ‘Hedronists’). Enjoy! Bruce Rawles === === === Mathematical Universe Hypothesis Emails (Recently sent out to a local group of people interested in Sacred Geometry from Ed Kellogg, Ph.D) Hi all  - [...]