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Description This was a visual screen I designed (for an inner courtyard garden to feature it's shadow pattern).This was the presentation sketch for the client and intended to be cut from metal plate either by laser,water-jet,or plasma cut,all three methods of which I use regularly for my fabrications,and all computer controlled.
The inset lower left drawing is an exploded view of what one of the voids(empty spaces)should look like after the cut and the piece has dropped out.This is to convey exactly what I want to the programmer that converts my sketch to computer code to control the laser...

For Sacred Geometry buffs;
Compare this pattern to Oboudi's marvelous abstract calligraphic pattern.
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Superficially they seem to resemble one another.Now compare them both to ancient Chinese step patterns...Are these pattern similarities from three separate and widely divergent cultures just coincidence? Or might there have been an ancient shared source?
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Comments: 14

Mishikaiya [2010-03-13 22:15:42 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic idea.

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ou8nrtist2 In reply to Mishikaiya [2010-03-14 19:20:02 +0000 UTC]

Someday...

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Wyrdhaven [2010-01-14 09:59:07 +0000 UTC]

This is nice. Did you end up doing it, or have they not decided yet?

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ou8nrtist2 In reply to Wyrdhaven [2010-01-14 17:05:30 +0000 UTC]

Nope,
It has not been manifested as yet,by me.
It is however based on historical(archeological)research.
I believe the design was first seen on an artifact.

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Wyrdhaven In reply to ou8nrtist2 [2010-01-15 21:39:13 +0000 UTC]

I thought I'd seen the pattern on some old stuff before.
(And my brain insists that I saw it on a screen in a Chinese restaurant too...)

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ou8nrtist2 In reply to Wyrdhaven [2010-01-16 00:44:19 +0000 UTC]

Yes,there is a similar pattern in traditional Chinese decorative arts.
Perhaps they had the same source.
They are nearly identical.

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Wyrdhaven In reply to ou8nrtist2 [2010-01-16 06:22:34 +0000 UTC]

Or it's just good geometry. I think there are some things that are to some degree "obvious" in a certain way when designing. And when it comes to finding a geometric pattern that has holes thru a surface but remains fairly stable while being relatively easy to chart out on a grid, this is one of the natural conclusions.

I think I also remember seeing this pierced into the side of a soapstone candle holder.

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ou8nrtist2 In reply to Wyrdhaven [2010-01-19 17:37:17 +0000 UTC]

I think I also saw this design in some Pre-Columbian artifacts from central or South America.
There's a name for co-current design themes in widely separated cultures,but I can't remember the term...

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Wyrdhaven In reply to ou8nrtist2 [2010-01-20 04:40:00 +0000 UTC]

*nod* I can't remember either, but I know what you're talking about.

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Tozetre [2010-01-13 13:48:48 +0000 UTC]

That's really cool.

I can't get the Tetris theme out of my head, though.

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ou8nrtist2 In reply to Tozetre [2010-01-13 16:56:59 +0000 UTC]

There's counciling for that you know.

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Tozetre In reply to ou8nrtist2 [2010-01-14 01:04:07 +0000 UTC]

Never enough; bathroom tiles are the worst.

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ou8nrtist2 In reply to Tozetre [2010-01-14 08:09:03 +0000 UTC]

Hehehe,
you speak from experience?

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Tozetre In reply to ou8nrtist2 [2010-01-15 00:35:10 +0000 UTC]

A misspent youth, to be sure. :T

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