Spidrons - Swirling Seas, Crystal Balls and asteroid
clusters - article in Science News
04Jan2007 08:28 PM Books
Thanks
to Ed in Ashland for 'A very cool Science News
article I just came
across I thought you would appreciate.'
After you've read this article about a neat geometric shape called spidrons ... note that the hexagonal fractal (used to create the spiral arms) also encodes the Jupiter/Earth orbital relationship in John Martineau's highly accurate model:
(I'm still impressed that this model also tracks two synchronous clusters of asteroids at +/-60 degrees to Jupiter as well!)
I had an opportunity to meet Zometool wizard Marc Pelletier in Boulder about a decade ago (during Luke Gatto's wonderful sacred geometry conference there); what a polyhedral 'Disneyland' he had in his workshop!!! (His Zometool technology story was rather neat, too...lots of creativity in a little plastic hub! BTW, I had a Zometool star lit up with little lights on our porch for the holidays (one of my favorite shapes; a stellated dodecahedron
After you've read this article about a neat geometric shape called spidrons ... note that the hexagonal fractal (used to create the spiral arms) also encodes the Jupiter/Earth orbital relationship in John Martineau's highly accurate model:
(I'm still impressed that this model also tracks two synchronous clusters of asteroids at +/-60 degrees to Jupiter as well!)
I had an opportunity to meet Zometool wizard Marc Pelletier in Boulder about a decade ago (during Luke Gatto's wonderful sacred geometry conference there); what a polyhedral 'Disneyland' he had in his workshop!!! (His Zometool technology story was rather neat, too...lots of creativity in a little plastic hub! BTW, I had a Zometool star lit up with little lights on our porch for the holidays (one of my favorite shapes; a stellated dodecahedron
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