Stefan Hintz

Girih App

To create even easier ornaments, than with the laser cutted Girih tiles, I decided to write a specialized App for it. An App has some advantages to the physical tiles: Physical tiles tend to move around a bit, when you release your fingers or add another piece. Loose tiles can not be durable stored as […]

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Laser Cutting Girih Tiles

Years after the idea of laser cutting Girih Tiles I attended a laser cutter workshop. I decided to build upon an existing file rather than using my own old SketchUp files, because of two features: Engraving and the ‘Teeth’ pattern on the sides. You can find the file for laser cutting girih tiles in the blog […]

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Girih Tiles

In 2012, while I was designing my LED installations at home, I started about placing the LEDs in circles in circular arcs. At that time I had a flexible five meter long LED strip with individually addressable LEDs. (WS2801) So I came up with five fold symmetries. Later I replaced the circles by regular Decagons. The shapes […]

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3D Modelling

Today I attended a 3D Printing Workshop, where I had to design a 3D object with a for me totally unknown browser based software. After playing around with some shapes builded with polygonal pyramids I decided to start another design using a combination of rings. I liked my creation so much, that I rebuilded it […]

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Caterpillar Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

The cells of a caterpillar morph to a shimmering butterfly.

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Hexagonal Rings

This pattern are animated rings in a hexagonal grid with neon colors.

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Hypergrid

This pattern is based on a hyperbolic hexagonal grid.

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Trafo Pop

This is the first official video of riding with the Trafo-Pop LED Jacket in Berlin at night on bikes. This LED Jacket is illuminated by 100 LEDs. Each RGB LED can be individually controlled to glow in one of 16 million colors. The LEDs are connected to one Arduino Nano micro controller and powered by […]

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LEDs

If you wanted to experiment with lamps in the past you had to choose those small 6 Volt light bulbs, which where used in the old wooden radios as backlight for the glass channel scales. The same small bulbs are still used nowadays in bicycle tail lights. And there you can see at once one […]

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