I just discovered the sculptures of Charles O. Perry 
(http://www.charlesperry.com/index.html) -- I suppose he's probably well 
known to many POVers; I'm always a bit slow.  I've been looking around 
to try to get some inspiration for the POV contest, but I keep going off 
on tangents.

Anyway, here are two "string art" looking things, one made from rotating 
the faces of an octahedron by 60 degrees, while translating them out a 
ways to get regular octagons as the new faces, and the other made from 
rotating the faces of a cube by 45 degrees, while translating them out 
to get regular heagons.  I did the math rather late at night, so the 
octagons and hexagons may be slightly irregular.

Dave Matthews

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Neat!

You should animate one of them spinning on the end of a string pinned to a
ceiling.  Texture it to represent real straws.  That'd would be ultimate.

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Josh wrote:

> Neat!
> 
> You should animate one of them spinning on the end of a string pinned to a
> ceiling.  Texture it to represent real straws.  That'd would be ultimate.
> 
> 
I like that idea.  I'll work on it at home this weekend.

Dave Matthews

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> I like that idea.  I'll work on it at home this weekend.

I'd love to see it!

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Dave Matthews wrote:
>I did the math rather late at night, so the octagons and hexagons may be slightly
irregular.

Eeewwwww... math.

Nice job.


Oskar

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