Lagrangian points, I like it how you can see that the center of gravity isn’t at the center of the star.
It’s also fun to see they resemble the “nuclear disarmament” thingy.
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These have probably already been seen on Tumblr, but they’re so cool, I couldn’t help but share them again!
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Fractal Fern
This is the Barnsley fern.. It is a mathematical fractal and it is remarkably similar to a living fern. Fractals are self similar and this means that the same pattern repeats on every level of magnification. With mathematical fractals this self similarity can continue infinitely.. in nature it obviously cannot, but in living fern you can still see self similarity.
:)Alex @Fathom the Universe
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via:
http://coecs.ou.edu/Brian.P.Grady/images/nanotube.jpg
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Kaz Shiomi & Kiko+’s “Ashiato Animal Footprint Sandals”
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Impossible Figures - Art by Oscar Reutersvärd
Oscar Reutersvärd (1915–2002), widely acknowledged as “the father of the impossible figure”, was a Swedish graphic artist who in 1934 pioneered the art of 3D drawings which may initially appear feasible, yet cannot be physically constructed. Born on November 29, 1915 in Stockholm, Sweden, he reportedly suffered from dyslexia and had difficulty estimating the distance and size of objects. But his family was artistic, and encouraged his painting and sculpture efforts.
Do these look possible to you?
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Dots are used to represent the adjacency between digits. Each digit 0-9 is represented by a colored segment. Dots assigned to a segment represent digits that follow the digit represented by the segment. The position of the dot is roughly the position within the number that the digit appears.
Art by by Cristian Ilies Vasile.
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Mobius Nautilus is a 3D printed sculpture by Joaquin Baldwin
About the project:
A compound mobius strip created out of 36 interlocking mobius strips. All segments are thin mobius strips, and they weave and interlock perfectly through the spaces left between them. Highly complex, and a headache to look at, yet it possesses an inherent mathematical simplicity and beauty.
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Supercontinent: how the world is moving together
Our planet used to be made up of one huge land mass. And it will be again (in a few million years), with Australia heading for Asia and North Africa on a collision course with Europe.
This year is the 50th anniversary of one of 20th-century science’s most important discoveries – the revelation that the land below us is on the move; that the continents we live on are creeping across the globe.
In September 1963, two Cambridge geophysicists – Fred Vine and Drummond Mathews – interpreted a zebra-like magnetic striping of the Pacific ocean floor as the result of a conveyor belt of new crust spreading out of submarine volcanic ridges. That idea of oceans spreading quickly became a central plank in the theory of a mobile Earth. Plate tectonics revealed to scientists that the static geography depicted in every world map is a mere planetary snapshot – the latest freeze-frame in a drama that has played out on the surface of Earth for billions of years.
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