Comments on: Giant Easter Egg

Giant Easter Egg

lobakgo — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 14:40:02 -0800

This giant Ukrainian Easter Egg (pysanka) was built in 1975 in Vegreville, Canada by (then) Univ. Utah Computer Science Professor Ronald Resch. Interesting egg factoids can be found here--including that it swivels like a weather vane. Vegreville has an annual festival. More images of egg here. The Vegreville Pysanka was the first physical structure completely designed with computer-aided geometric modeling software. There is a good description here of the complex geometry involved. It's based on a technique (PDF) he developed and patented for folding a flat material (i.e. sheet metal) into flexible surfaces. Ronald Resch has had an interesting career.

By: chrismear

chrismear — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:50:08 -0800

That's really cute. Those crazy Canadians! Fun post, lobakgo. Just a shame that the Geocities site seems to have died a MetaDeath...

By: aramaic

aramaic — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:53:12 -0800

...every summer my family drove out of Edmonton for vacation, and whenever we passed The Egg I knew it meant the trip had only just begun and that I was in for another couple dozen hours in the car....

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 16:13:26 -0800

I asked some friends to check the Geocities links themselves and they're working for them, so hopefully they're okay.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:57:09 -0800

that first link is one of the most surreal photos I've ever seen.

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 18:08:12 -0800

It looks like it was built in 1975. Man what was that with all the brown?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:49:17 -0800

BTW, this came up on last year's Pysanky thread, which has plenty of links to more normal-sized pysanka.