Comments on: About http://transmaterial.net MATERIALS THAT REDEFINE OUR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:49:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tony Wills http://transmaterial.net/index.php/about/comment-page-1/#comment-796 Tony Wills Mon, 18 May 2009 10:28:09 +0000 http://transmaterial.net/wp/?page_id=2#comment-796 This might be fringe to your main mission but you may like the fabrication possibilities in new the book; D-Forms by Jogn Sharp published by Tarquin. This book illustrates my discovery of D-Form geometry which is a method of creating a very large and new vocabulary of three dimensional forms. To their chagrin, the concept is so incredibly simple the mathematicians missed it: take two developable surfaces (i.e flat inextensible sheets of material such as card or steel), cut each one into any shape with the proviso that the pair have the same perimeter length and preferable do not have concave edges, start to join the pair at the edges and they will 'compute' a three dimensional form. For example, a square and a circle will create 'squaricles' of various solutions as illustrated in the book. You can see some here: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/dform/index.html and I'll send you a copy of the book if it is of interest: http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Forms-Surprising-Forms-Curved-Shapes/dp/1899618872/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242642436&sr=8-1 Regards Tony Wills This might be fringe to your main mission but you may like the fabrication possibilities in new the book; D-Forms by Jogn Sharp published by Tarquin. This book illustrates my discovery of D-Form geometry which is a method of creating a very large and new vocabulary of three dimensional forms. To their chagrin, the concept is so incredibly simple the mathematicians missed it: take two developable surfaces (i.e flat inextensible sheets of material such as card or steel), cut each one into any shape with the proviso that the pair have the same perimeter length and preferable do not have concave edges, start to join the pair at the edges and they will ‘compute’ a three dimensional form. For example, a square and a circle will create ‘squaricles’ of various solutions as illustrated in the book. You can see some here: http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/dform/index.html and I’ll send you a copy of the book if it is of interest: http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Forms-Surprising-Forms-Curved-Shapes/dp/1899618872/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242642436&sr=8-1

Regards

Tony Wills

]]> By: Paula Costa http://transmaterial.net/index.php/about/comment-page-1/#comment-776 Paula Costa Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:58:37 +0000 http://transmaterial.net/wp/?page_id=2#comment-776 I was interested in the concept and wonder what light weight media the system uses. I would appreciate if you would let me kow. Thanks, Paula I was interested in the concept and wonder what light weight media the system uses.
I would appreciate if you would let me kow.
Thanks,

Paula

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