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Tuesday, 31 October 2023 by Bruce Rawles

I was looking through prior posts – I’ve been sharing items of interest about geometry and interconnectedness since 2007! – and realized that there is a lot of content that is still every bit as relevant today as when originally published … Since geometrical principles, archetypes, and so many more topics aren’t seasonal or slaves to style… at least as far as I can tell! So, I’m going to pull a couple of images with links to older posts to encourage exploration of the archives. Here’s one about Intention and Symbols and when I followed the link about Villarceau circles I found an interesting animation that shows a plane intersecting a torus to reveal a Vesica Piscis cross-section; neat! (I also added the animation to the original post.)

Here’s another post from a while ago:

Dodecahedra Origami Luminaria – a timely holiday project, too!

I just updated our Affiliates page since it’s been quite a while; thanks for many years of support! When you use the links on this page, it helps fund our “labor of love” efforts keeping this site going and this is greatly appreciated!

2024 Martineau Solar System Calendars available now

Saturday, 30 September 2023 by Bruce Rawles

Once again this perennial calendar is available! These timeless images portray amazingly accurate geometric representations of the planetary orbits in our very own solar system – now available in printed calendar form with dates for 2024!!

Martineau Solar System Calendars

These 12 images are highly accurate geometric models of our solar system; details are here. They were inspired by the remarkable work of John Martineau (publisher of Wooden Books), who wrote “A Little Book of Coincidence”. Tiled images of planetary surfaces and related images form the backgrounds. Images are two or more orbits defined by simple 2D (circles, triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, octagons) or 3D geometries (e.g. tetrahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron) typically with 99.9% or greater accuracy. The work picks up where Johannes Kepler’s mystical exploration left off. A newly revised calendar (which is updated every year) with images from the Martineau Solar System is again available for 2024.

Sonoran desert geometry: natural and human-made

Thursday, 31 August 2023 by Bruce Rawles

Here are some quick musings about DNA helices, and metaphors for integration (and disintegration?) before sharing more recent photographs from our new neighborhood in southern Arizona:

Rhetorical question: Geometrically, the double helix structure of the DNA molecule – where two incomplete and different “halves” attempt to fuse into a new separate identity that keeps “new identities” propagating – can be seen as a classroom metaphor for our attempt to reconcile duality by merging differences, rather than seeing sameness that transcends form. The content in mind (the realm of ideas) of pure awareness doesn’t change, even while the material garment of form manifesting in time and space as ephemeral bodies seems to keep changing from generation to generation, and perhaps more subtly in mutations, but always maintaining the belief in separate, differing (conflicting) selves. What if we all have an All-Inclusive Shared Self that is unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable? What if our real identity (not the symbols of our specific personas or bodies as Plato might point out) is eternally innocent of any distortion, diversion, dilution or delusion? Wouldn’t this ideal be more real than any “perfect” geometric archetype or pattern if based in the unalterable?

OK, now back to our usual program of forms, but perhaps the rhetorical questions about our intrinsic ideals and identities might be interesting to ponder while we’re noticing the daily patterns (geometric and otherwise) that persistently percolate into our surreal worlds, representing a liberating alternative to the finite dreams we’ve conjured.

Here are some more geometric patterns that have crossed my path this past month; enjoy! See how many geometric archetypes you can notice in these photographs…

Cactus, spirals, and desert geometries

Monday, 31 July 2023 by Bruce Rawles

This will be a short and mostly visual post as we just moved to (Green Valley) Arizona a week or so ago and are getting settled in. Going for early morning walks affords opportunities to observe spiral patterns (and other geometries) in ubiquitous and numerous varieties of cacti. For fun, I’ve added a shot of a vesica piscis shape formed from intertwined trunks, a triangular spiral on a decorative metal screen and there are plenty of obvious geometric patterns as are always evidenced when looking at nature.

Googled Geometries – and Free German sacred geometry books (limited supply, time)

Wednesday, 31 May 2023 by Bruce Rawles

Sometimes it’s fun to just let Google find geometric artistry and allow serendipity to serve up fascinating imagery rooted in inspiration from geometry. Here are a few finds du jour; if you find interesting examples (including your own) please send links or images my way. Thanks!

My intent here is to fuel your geometric curiosity; try googling your favorite niches and/or interests combined with the word geometry and see what you find! Here is a book that looks interesting:

I believe the cover art for this Math Art book may be (or very likely inspired by) the 3D printed artistry of Bathsheba previously featured here on GeometryCode.com

In addition to Google, try the “Search this website” function in the upper right corner (laptop and larger screen sizes; scroll down to find on mobile devices) to see if I’ve already covered a geometric interest, since I’ve been posting on this site since 2007, and publishing geometric art books a decade prior to that, and collecting and exploring the subject a few decades before that!

We’re in the process of moving to another state (details soon) so I’m anticipating having more time to do in-depth posts after our move. So, to lighten our load and not move these books yet another time… I’m offering (until mid July, while supplies last) – limited supply; limited offer:

FREE German sacred geometry books

I have a handful of both of my German-translated books:

Mandalas der Heiligen Geometrie (MDHG) das Universale Design der Natur (SGDS German edition)
Bewusst malen – Heilige Geometrie

(If you live in Germany, you’ll probably want to order the Bewusst malen – Heilige Geometrie book, still in print, directly from the publisher, Silberschnur Verlag, since the shipping from USA to Germany is likely more than buying it locally.)

If you speak German, or know someone who does and has the least interest in geometry, I am offering special FREE books (very limited supply) of both of these books if you cover my postage costs. If you live near Yachats, Oregon, you can pick them up here and skip the postage expense. For details on these limited time, limited supply books, contact me.

Note that you don’t have to be able to read or understand German to enjoy either of these books, as they are both lavishly illustrated – FAR more imagery than text. Also each copy of the out-of-print MDHG book has a unique set of die-cut fold-up models of the 5 Platonic Solids (included behind the back cover) that make a neat mobile if you add your own thread.

Please contact me before mid-July 2023 if you are interested in this special offer!