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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Folding Circles
Each of these spheres demonstrates that
triangles form where great circles meet.
The elements used to make these sculptures began as flat circles. "Children in school should be folding circles as often as they are drawing them." says sculptor Bradford Hansen-Smith who has combined art with geometry and
traveled the world conducting workshops
to people of all ages. He has received three patents on transformational movement systems (
See definition of
transformational geometry
at "Fun with Geodesics"
). Visit
wholemovement.com
to see many of his circle based sculptures,
circle folding tutorials
and a more detailed
explanation about the wholemovement approach to geometry
.
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