via BoingBoing

Bathsheba Grossman is a sculptor who uses cutting-edge technology to render math- and science-inspired shapes in three dimensions. You can buy 3D-printed laser-cut metal ones, or order them in plastic at lower costs from ShapeWays. That sound you hear is my jaw scraping my keyboard.

Borromean Rings

120 Cell

Along these same lines – check out the renderings on the Minimal Surface Archive, and for some background on what it means to project a 4-d dodecahedron into 3 dimensions, this video explains how to think in 10 dimensions.  If you really want to blow your mind, try parsing this article on the Lie Group E8, which has been proposed as a fundamental model of physical existence.

Go here, turn on HD, full screen it and sit back.  Nothing in the video is real.

Via Infoaesthetics:

While this “media” facade might strongly resemble that of “Flare Facade“, originally posted about a year ago, it is fundamentally different in its lack of any computational power, motors or sensors. Instead, designer Ned Kahn [nedkahn.com] developed a mechanical version which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind. The kinetic facade is designed for Technorama, a major science center in Switzerland, located in Winterthur, Switzerland, and visible from the large urban plaza in front of the museum. Similar works from the same artist can be admired on his wind themed portfolio page.

I love this guys work.  The first time i saw it was in person at a parking garage in Charlotte NC.  It’s facinating to watch.

Peter Greenaway’s “dialogue” with Da Vinci’s Last Supper

Roger Hiorns just filled an abandoned apartment with Copper Sulfate and over the course of a couple weeks grew blue crystals on all the exposed surfaces.  More photos here.

(via shape and colour)

Everyone seems to be making fog screens all of a sudden.  Someone at Dorkbot last wednesday mentioned they had built one for personal use as well…