Oct 26, 2012

Yuri Suzuki: The Sound of Earth



The Sound of the Earth is a content of Yuri Suzuki`s spherical record project, the grooves representing
the outlines of the geographic land mass.

Solarsystem-GIF


There is an interactive version (Flash), you find it here.

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Oct 24, 2012

Euclid's Elements as Paper Sculpture



Helen Friel has collaborated with Moo’s Luxe Project to create an extraordinary set of 3D versions of mathematician Oliver Byrne’s famous illustrations of Euclid’s Elements.

Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition of Euclid’s Geometry is a striking example of Victorian typesetting and book design, notable for its use of colour and layout to express mathematical proofs. It seems worth sharing here for its experimental use of graphic forms for teaching geometry.



Also check out:

Euclidiennes de Guillevic, Poésie/Gallimard, 1967
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And the very nice reprint of the the exceptional book "The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid" by Oliver Byrne.
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D3 Tutorial

 



D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. For example, you can use D3 to generate an HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction. 

New to programming? This D3-Tutorial by Jeff Heer, Scott Murray and Jerome Cukier is for you:

D3-Tutorial

And a very helpfull Cheat Sheet:

d3 cheat sheet