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Visual Puzzle: What Is This?

October 17, 2008
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[Photo by fdecomite.]

I stumbled across this cool project during a Creative Commons search at Flickr. Can you guess what it is?

72 Pencils Sculpture

For the making of the sculpture, look here. And this is the finished project:

Wow! This shot shows the hexagonal structure clearly:

[Project was inspired by the geometric art of George W. Hart.]


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2 Comments leave one →
  1. October 31, 2008 8:07 pm

    Wow, so beautiful!

    Here is another site about math sculptures: http://www.wholemovement.com/

    I also wanted to thank you for the hat tip. It felt wonderful when it came up in my blog roll.

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