Made a math sculpture

Oct 27, 2023 11:20 PM

emertonom

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It was inspired by the "polarized light through sugar water" experiment explained in a video by 3 Blue 1 Brown. Like the polarized light, the ribbons are all aligned at the bottom of the sculpture, but they twist by different amounts before reaching the top--blue twists the most, pink the least. This should create bands of different colors at different heights in the sculpture, which I do think are visible. Ideally the bands would also appear a bit diagonal, like a barber pole; that's not really so visible in the still image, but you can see it a bit better if you rotate the sculpture.

In motion, you can kind of see the diagonal / barber pole effect. It's a pretty slight angle; to make it more pronounced, the ribbons would have to twist many more times, but this runs into a problem where the ribbons just collapse and twist at a single point instead of twisting evenly along their lengths, which is why I've got the white spreaders on the sculpture.

Hah I just saw that video the other day, very cool

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I'm not sure why, but I read that as meth sculpture.

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