Blooming Zoetrope Sculptures
January 17, 2015 9:53 AM Subscribe
"When the sculptures are spun at just the right frequency under a strobe light, a rather magical effect occurs: the sculptures seem to be animated or alive!"
These 3D printed sculptures were designed by artist, inventor, and Stanford design lecturer John Edmark using Fibonacci's sequence to determine the placement of the appendages. They appear animated when their rotation speed is synchronized to a strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º - though in the video above, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) to achieve the effect without using a strobe. Here's a clip of just one sculpture with the strobe going.
These 3D printed sculptures were designed by artist, inventor, and Stanford design lecturer John Edmark using Fibonacci's sequence to determine the placement of the appendages. They appear animated when their rotation speed is synchronized to a strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º - though in the video above, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) to achieve the effect without using a strobe. Here's a clip of just one sculpture with the strobe going.
Very nice. But for the sake of our sanity can we make sure this technology never falls into the hands of Cyriak yt ?
posted by logopetria
Please don't ever do that again. I'll be the rest of the day trying to stop shivering.
posted by mule98J at 10:52 AM on January 17, 2015
Oooh pretty! I bet you could do this with actual flowers and strawberries too.
posted by sexyrobot at 10:59 AM on January 17, 2015
posted by sexyrobot at 10:59 AM on January 17, 2015
I for one welcome our undulating, disgustingly organic future.
posted by The Whelk at 11:03 AM on January 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 11:03 AM on January 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
We're in that future, just so slow and relatively microscopic, it is hare to perceive on a Saturday.
posted by Oyéah at 11:38 AM on January 17, 2015
posted by Oyéah at 11:38 AM on January 17, 2015
^Oooh pretty! I bet you could do this with actual flowers and strawberries too.
Here's an artichoke.
posted by polymath at 12:06 PM on January 17, 2015 [7 favorites]
Here's an artichoke.
posted by polymath at 12:06 PM on January 17, 2015 [7 favorites]
There was a fantastic one at Burning Man called Charon.
posted by rednikki at 4:10 PM on January 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by rednikki at 4:10 PM on January 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
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