Exploration

A collection of topics and images recently happily occupying space in my mind

eggs

Oct 3, 2024

I recently began making omelettes after a lifetime of refusing to eat eggs. I credit the chickens I lived with this past summer while working on a farm in Italy for changing my mind. I've noticed these quite stunning interactions of different fluids and would love to learn more about the physics and chemistry theories which describe these dynamics (check out this fluid simulation toy a friend of mine developed). There seems to be serious repulsion occurring between the egg whites and the soy sauce. My lack of skill in egg cracking is demonstrated below.

omelette/artwork ingredients: eggs, soy sauce, salt, pepper, cumin (not shown: feta, tomatoes, mushrooms, zucchini, avocado, lemon, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds)

baby-proofing the stellated icosahedron

Nov 22, 2023

I have a small friend who, like me, has strong feelings about polyhedra, so I regularly produce new shapes to share with them. Unfortunately, Kai has not yet mastered fine motor skills, and has a tendency to crush my paper creations instantaneously. So, I recently painted this stellated icosahedron with resin, and the technique seems to have been successful! Documentation of Kai's experimentation with the bounds of the strength of resin are below.

dry

coated

gift received with enthusiasm

throw

foray into foliage

Aug 28, 2023

I've been staring at leaves recently, seeing flow fields, feeling curious about how nature tends to congregate -- lily pads and mushroom growth and jellyfish socialization, they're not quite circle packings, but what are they?

convergence

wiggle

burst

congregation

pleats upon pleats

June 14, 2023

I discovered one of Tomoko Fuse's many books on spiral origami and got to folding!

avery

dollop

polar express

faux flower

Suspicious Soap

Feb 27, 2023

I washed a glass today and was reminded of my favorite animation passing through a four-dimensional dodecahedron. Suspicious... what's up with soap and geometry?

How do plants know math ??

Jan 24, 2023

I visited the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens today and was consumed by wonder and joy.

lush

canopy

layered

elephant

delicate

pleated

bean

spokes

Spirograph ...... but make it, three-dimensional !!

Jan 19, 2023

I'm very hyped about roulettes, and teeming with excitement about the possibility of designing a contraption that could build spherical cycloids (a 3D spirograph!!)