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My main goal is to present the Spidron project we develop with my friends for years. it is a system of triangles with extraordinary properties in space and time.
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    As you can see, four touching sphere's sphidronized polygon 'side' can be unrolled into planar surfaces if we cut them into thin and spirally rotated ligamental bows. The result will be four planar surfaces. The same four planar surfaces i.e. fractal-sided polygons can create a simple sphere if we join them by their sides instead of their middlepoints. The spherical twisted sphidronnests are the solutions of the ancient problem of the metrically correct mapping. The picture below is made by mathematical algorithms, which were created by Janos Erdős. He was listening my ideas and succeed to transform the narrative into mathematical expressions. The result is a "3D" picture. In this way the 3 kinds of expression could be presented in one process: Narrative, mathematics and picture. Surprisingly the final consequence of this "3D" fenomena is that the 3rd dimension IS NOT an Euclidean Dimension. It is something else, what we can suspect as a trauma of perception of the fetus, who cam out from the total safety of mother's womb and water of life. As the baby is delivered the shock of gravitation causes a trauma of perception and makes the change of brain. The eye start to see double and sees something what have never existed: the third dimension. The real physical content of the "3D" or we can say: the third dimension is a 'simple property" of the embedding physical space. The GRAVITATION.
    In a word: The real structure of the so called space is the following: Two-dimensional Euclidean plane in an "n-dimensional" embedding physical "space". The first physical dimension we can experience is the gravitation. Yes, we are residents of a flatland. Everybody is folded like an origami and the first shock after birth causes the illusion of the third dimension, which - in reality the Gravity itself. All other dimension can be real, including the 3rd 4th or the time itself, but they are only embedding physical ones. If you don't believe us, please look after the anomalies in wolfram's pages, especially the http://mathworld.wolfram.com/  ! An example: the Banach-Starsky paradox. Our - The Spidron Team's - theory implies answer to that problem too, among others.

    It is breathtaking that Ms Schelley Heath found the Sphidron sphere intuitively just recently. We found her extraordinary work on the web by chance:

    Celestial Cyclon on page:
    http://www.redbubble.com/people/bundygal/art/641334-6-celestial-cyclone

    Look and enjoy. Maybe she was the first who described the mathematics of sphidrons. I don't know, but anyway she was the one who was able to demonstrate the other side of our development. The New Geometry,

    THE DEVELOPABLE SPHIDRON SPHERE

    I can hardly imagine that the perception of colors are the result of the trauma of birth, as the unity of the light can NOT BE taken apart. In darkness we see only the essence of the outer world. Normally we see everything in black and white like in our dream and in our fetal time.

    Is not it a fatal error? Or fetal?


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    Sat, Jun 6, 2009  Permanent link

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    In Jeffer R. Weeks book he presented a hyperbolic surface which can not be folded to the plane.
    After Pr. Lajos Szilassi proved, that the nest - made from flat triangles, we can be certain that the curved circular nest is also foldable from a plane sheet of paper. If it was thrue then it is easy to show the difference between hyperbolic, what he presented, in Shape of time and our developable surface. Our shape is foldable, because of the whirling shape of the sphidron. The vortex-like deformation is radially symmetrical. this kind of deformation is possible without stretching the surface.



    Mon, Mar 23, 2009  Permanent link

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    A path, also known as a rhumb line, which cuts a meridian on a given surface at any constant angle but a right angle. If the surface is a sphere, the loxodrome is a spherical spiral.
    The loxodrome is the path taken when a compass is kept pointing in a constant direction. It is a straight line on a Mercator projection or a logarithmic spiral on a polar projection (Steinhaus 1999, pp. 218-219). The loxodrome is not the shortest distance between two points on a sphere.

    Source: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Loxodrome.html 
    Mon, Mar 9, 2009  Permanent link

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    Walt worked out this spidronized space-filler: with its identical copies you can fill the space without having any gap or overlapping. I tried to create a rendering of this system.





    2008-2009 Copyright Erdely-Ballegooijen & The Spidron Team
    Thu, Jan 1, 2009  Permanent link

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    The Spidron Team announces that all of the 13 Archimedean solids were spidronized and realized in the 3D reality. On the attached picture below you can see all the original solids and their spidronized versions. In the table you can find the view-points of each axes. The first row shows the solids from the view of the two-fold symmetry axis, the yellow rows are showing the same solids from the view of the three-fold symmetry axis and the green and the blue rows are representing the four and five-fold symmetry views. It is the total set of the Spidronized Achimedean Solids.

    What does the verb "to spidronize" means? It means that instead of regular polygons we can cover the solids with spidronnests, composed from spiraling arms. Each arm is created from two types of isosceles triangles.



    Copyright 2007 The Spidron Team - Daniel Erdely, Walt van Ballegooijen, Marc Pelletier, Amina Buhler-Allen, Rinus Roelofs, Paul Gailiunas and Lajos Szilassi

    http://spidron.hu/archispidron/
    Tue, Dec 9, 2008  Permanent link

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    This is an extreme kind of Spidrons.



    From side view




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    Thu, Nov 20, 2008  Permanent link

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    A modular system

    From decagonal, hexagonal spidronnests with special outer angles and rhombs you can build free labyrinth forms in space.



    Erdely - Ballegooijen - Pelletier

    More on www.spidron.hu
    Wed, Nov 19, 2008  Permanent link

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    Il y a des choses que l'intelligence seule est capable de chercher, mais que, par elle-même, elle ne trouvera jamais. Ces choses, l'instinct seul les trouverait ; mais il ne les cherchera jamais.

    „There are some things that only the intellect is able to seek, but which it will never find by itself. Those things could only be found by instinct, but it shall never seek them.”

    Bergson



    Artwork by the author

    As the chairman of the Symmetry Society, Szaniszló Bérczi astutely remarked, the spidron nest is really simply a way to cut a cube into two symmetrical halves of equal volume. That is why those halves can be fitted together to create space-filling structures. However, he also saw immediately that this cutting of the cube is different to the usual truncations and concave and convex cutting methods. He felt it was unusual that the well-known polyhedron, what’s more also the icosahedron and the other regular solids can be cut into halves in this manner using surfaces consisting of diminishing sequences of triangles that can also be laid out in the plane. At the Symmetry Festival held in the August of 2003 in Budapest, the Lithuanian-British mathematician and educator Paul Gailiunas also noted that other space-filling structures could be obtained if the external angles of the spidron nests were varied. He is a great expert of space-filling and has published several scientific papers about the subject. He even recommended some specific angles that would allow bodies to be composed of less than eight nests that would be different to the spidrohedrons I had produced. His idea led to the birth of several new structures, one of which does fill space with its copies. A lucky misunderstanding also allowed us to find spidron nests with more spidron arms that became the starting point of further new research and the discovery of new surfaces and space-filling polyhedra. Of those, I would like to mention specifically the ten-sided nests that cut the quasi-crystals discovered some 25 years ago into two symmetrical pieces, which can then be used to build very strange non-periodic labyrinths. The discovery was made using an idea by the American mathematician and artist Marc Pelletier at one of our spidron meetings. Later, the so-called Spidron Team not only created innumerable new structures, mobiles and polyhedra but also entered subfields of great interest for the scientific community and produced novel concepts there. To give a few examples, we have had serious queries from quantum physicists who believe that the new concept of “spidron movement” could serve as a model for the recently described quantum gravity theory. In recent months, I have had discussions with an employee of NASA in Hungary, who specifically requested us to present the mathematical model of the pulsating and deforming spidron nests and the process of spidron rings breaking off at increasing intervals at their next meeting in Houston, because – as he said – NASA are interested in all mathematical models that may be suitable for the description of physical or even cosmic processes. But I encountered a similar degree of interest from representatives of the energy sciences, optical crystal physics, nanotechnology and other material sciences, too. The team of people working with the spidron continues to grow and even during the most recent months we have reached so many surprising results and conclusions that we decided to continue the work and maintain our relationship indefinitely. Luckily, the tools provided by modern information technology make this relatively simple. Week by week, new solutions, ideas and proposals are born in the universe of the spidron, which we go on to discuss at regular annual meetings and we support each other in making every seed of an idea flourish. The ideas that appear in individual subfields are quite easily adapted to other, even rather remote fields. The present history of the spidron is characterized by this transdisciplinarity, supported by a solid foundation of basic research in mathematics and geometry, which also allows the concepts to be translated for the representatives of the various subfields of science.



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    Those last thoughts lay increasing emphasis on the scientific aspects of the spidrons while they may bring into question their justification in the fields of design and art. However – as the very example of the spidrons so clearly demonstrates – today science infiltrates the toolkits of object formation, industrial and artistic thinking as well as realization, “production” and manufacture increasingly, and to an unprecedented extent. One of our works in progress is being produced for a bar in a Vienna hotel. The final object has been modeled virtually with great exactitude, but the language we have used to do so was the language of mathematics. For the carpentry workshop that is going to complete the work, the entire project is defined by a table containing the data and angles of connection of the many similar triangles of different sizes that make it up along with some colour codes to indicate the methods of construction and materials. Such integrated works bring together the knowledge and culture of several millennia, from Pythagoras and Leonardo da Vinci through János Bolyai and János Neumann to Roger Penrose, John Conway, Zaha Hadid, Gábor Bachman and Santiago Calatrava. The works that result from that sort of integrative work are rendered possible by the scientific and technical achievements of the age, hence we could use a new term to describe them. The 21st century has brought a world of integrated works and products. I would be pleased to introduce the concept of integravitism for the scientific and cultural processes of recent years. The term does not denote a style or a movement, but rather the stream of products incessantly generated by contiguous research and development that gravitates into a unity, created by the simultaneous appearance of technological progress, disciplines in dialogue, direct communication and global problems (and the global objectives that appeared alongside them) – and the need to respond to them. The works maturing in such workshops can only seem inhuman monstrosities of our modern, alienated world to the superficial observer. Their very character implies that they cannot really be individual products. The spidrons themselves are clearly a present center of gravity of integravity.



    Artwork by Rinus Roelofs
    Sat, Nov 15, 2008  Permanent link

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    My Grandfather said:

    The first testament was a covenant between God and Abraham
    The second testament was a covenant between Jesus and the people
    The third testament should be a covenant between everyone





    This picture was shot in Paris.
    Tue, Nov 11, 2008  Permanent link

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    Please have a look!

    This piece was made from eight quadrilateral saddle spidron-nest and some flat plates.

    Tue, Nov 11, 2008  Permanent link

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