uniquely asymmetrical I finally made a Zome model of what B. Fuller calls The Coupler (insert dramatic chipmunk here). This polyhedron is what I am planning on using as the module for all this madness. This Coupler is an asymmetrical Octahedron – one B. Fuller refers to as “uniquely asymmetrical”. And really, who am I… Continue reading

Once you see them… So, just a quick note on a paper that I’ve been rereading periodically since I found it on the Web O’ Lies: Adaptive TetraPuzzles: Efficient Out-of-Core Construction and Visualization of Gigantic Multiresolution Polygonal Models The TL;DR is “Streaming massive triangulated networks that do not fit in memory at varying levels of… Continue reading

A different kind of transform Lordy. What a long strange path to get back to Tetrahedral coordinates. I started this particular leg of this long journey with the assumption that I really needed a Body Centered Cubic grid for my whacky spatial modularization/caching scheme. I have been pursuing this path most vigorously when I realized… Continue reading

I got my display shoot box thingy or whatever they call these things for photographing small objects. Pretty happy with it, considering I’m a complete amateur at these things. Here’s the Rhombic Dodecahedron I created with Zome. As you can see in the above, I added the struts from the center – red – sphere… Continue reading

Sheared and Stretched I’m kind of loving this project. In addition to the ability to 3D print anything that can describe mathematically with STL files, I can also do a lot of this work with the Zome construction toy. Zome is truly wonderful and what was startling to discover was that I can represent the… Continue reading

A Bounty Of Dodecahedra I had ordered a little pile of Rhombic Dodecahedra from Shapeways. I love 3D printing and I love to play with physical things rather than simply perform abstract geometry in my head or with 3D computer graphics. Something very visceral (probably literally, lol) about handling these things and stacking them and… Continue reading

Basic Housekeeping, Some Lists, Etc. So I at least organized my repository, Luciferase, and checked in the PR so that it should at least work. I added the link to the main page for this sub stack. Stuff is very much embryonic and of course the hope is that it grows in capability. Currently there’s… Continue reading

An unexpected correlation In my first post I went on about what I was trying to accomplish, at least here at the beginning. And that was to create a way to spatially cache asset data. Rather than using a cubical grid with { X, Y, Z } coordinates for each cubic cell volume – the… Continue reading

Sweet Spot So I decided to use this contraption to do my blogging. I’ll spare you the very scientific decision making process, but this thing seems quite reasonable. Anyways, at least for the foreseeable future, this stack will be about my extremely naive and amateurish attempts at world building. Well, “world building” really isn’t quite… Continue reading