Mathematics

Spiraling Balloon Spirals

This are some color changing rotating spirals, which may look like made out of balloons. For rendering this on your graphics card only very few lines of code are required.

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Spiraling Spirals

It is time do some WebGL stuff again. And here it is. Some spiraling spirals with a minimal amount of code.

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Pentagons

You can tile the Euclidean Plane with fivefold symmetric tiles.

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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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