Aleister Crowley...across the Fourth Dimension!

[kallistii]

No, it's not the sequal to Buckaroo Bonzai...but an interesting oberservation.

Please consider these two images:

The Unicursal Hexagram:


A scuplture of a three dimensional projection of a 4 dimensional object:


Both projections have a smilar "feel" to them for me.

This interesting article, "The Unicursal Hexagram as Hyperbola", which I found talks about the goemetry of conic sections that I think is a good first step...http://www.ecsd.com/~msanborn/unicursal.html

The article that I ran across on the sculpture is here: http://www.sciencenewsdaily.org/story-7409.html

Personally, I think the Unicursal Hexagram is most likely a 2/3 dimension projection of a n-dimension figure.

It did tickle my inner-erisian to note that the sculpture has a total of 23 vertices.

Comments

[ravenlaughing.livejournal.com]

Fascinating! And I can completely see the visual correlation. actually, I really like the sculpture for some reason.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

It is an amazing piece of art!

I would love to have a small copy of it...although the only problem is that if you turn it the wrong way, it disappears out of 3D space! :-)

ttyl

[ravenlaughing.livejournal.com]

damn, that's cool.

[achbarr.livejournal.com]

Sweet!