skeletales:

Flickers of light dance across the floor, walls, and ceiling of any room that holds this Sparkle Palace Cocktail Table by John Foster. The unique table design consists of transparent glass, cut into geometric prisms, and arranged into two tiers. Layered in between the prisms are one large and one small glass tabletop surface. As light passes through the colorful glass, scatters of triangular light cover the walls in a beautiful and unpredictable display.

I must have this! Hope I can still remember all of these inspirations a few years from now.  =)

whiporwill:

What happens when you map two planets by drawing a line between their positions every few days, over the course of 8 Earth years? Beautiful patterns emerge.

The planets in the heavens move in exquisite orbital patterns, dancing to the Music of the Cosmos.  There is more mathematical and geometric harmony than we realize.   The idea for this article is from a book Larry Pesavento shared with me.  The book, ‘A Little Book of Coincidence’ by John Martineau, illustrates the orbital patterns and several of their geometrical relationships.  .

Take the orbits of any two planets and draw a line between the two planet positions every few days.  Because the inner planet orbits faster than the outer planet, interesting patterns evolve.  Each planetary pairing has its own unique dance rhythm.  For example, the Earth-Venus dance returns to the original starting position after eight Earth years.  Eight Earth years equals thirteen Venus years.  Note that 8 and 13 are members of the Fibonacci number series.

Earth:     8 years * 365.256 days/year  =  2,922.05 days                   

Venus:  13 years * 224.701 days/year  =  2,921.11 days (ie. 99.9%)

Watching the Earth-Venus dance for eight years creates this beautiful five-petal flower with the Sun at the center.  (5 is another Fibonacci number.)

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