Nils Völker, One Hundred and Eight. Interactive installation
ed: For the grid lovers among us.
Construction began in 1993 when Horace Burgess believed that God spoke to him to build the treehouse. Now in 2011, the treehouse is 10 stories tall and officially measures as the tallest treehouse in the world.
I MADE THE MODEL FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre designed by Foster + Partners.
Fingerings by Judith Braun
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature’s genius in architecture
Proof that differential equations are real.
The shapes the salt is taking at different pitches are combinations of eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator.
(The Laplace operator
tells you the flux density of the gradient flow of a many-to-one function ƒ. As eigenvectors summarise a matrix operator, so do eigenfunctions summarise this differential operator.)
Remember that sound is compression waves — air vibrating back and forth — so that pressure can push the salt (or is it sand?) around just like wind blows sand in the desert.
Notice the similarity to solutions of Schrödinger PDE’s from the hydrogen atom.
When the universe sings itself, the probability waves of energy hit each other and form material shapes in the same way as the sand/salt in the video is doing. Except in 3-D, not 2-D. Everything is, like, waves, man.
To quote Dave Barry: I am not making this up. Science fact, not science fiction.
Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy? Chances are you have never seen it like this — nor could you. In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light is visible across the sky. This band is the disk of our spiral galaxy. Since we are inside this disk, the band appears to encircle the Earth. The above spectacular picture of the Milky Way arch, however, goes where the unaided eye cannot. The image is actually a deep digital fusion of nine photos that create a panorama fully 360 across. Taken recently in Teide National Park in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
via APOD
I want to work for this man!
Rolling Bridge designed by Thomas Heatherwick.
Photo by Cristobal Palma.
This numerical simulation shows two pairs of vortices interacting in a leap-frogging motion. Another version shows the same situation but with a small perturbation in the rotational alignment that causes even more interesting interactions. Both simulations are of potential flow—an idealized flow without viscosity where velocity can be described as the gradient of a scalar function. The mathematics governing potential flow are notably easier than the full Navier-Stokes equations that govern fluid mechanics. (submitted by jessecaps)
Shoonya
Vijnana Bhairava Tantra from the Torah (The Book of Deuteronomy)
30 x 22 in, 2009
via colossal
If you don’t like Fibonacci spirals then I don’t like you.
Click on the canvas to cycle through rotation and inwards/outwards directions.
Don’t stare too long lest you get dizzy.
Awesome!!
Constellations Orion, Canis Major, and Canis Minor rise in the night sky of the magnificent Indreshwar wooden temple; one of the largest and tallest pagoda style temples in Nepal which is originally built in 1294, making it the oldest surviving temple of the country. The brightest trail in the background sky belongs to star Sirius while the notable three stars of Orion Belt are visible at upper edge.
Photo by Babak A. Tafreshi
Trippy fisheye lens timelapse of the night sky at Paranal Observatory. 1080p + fullscreen viewing mandatory!