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Visualization of a magnetic field using compasses.
“The magnetosphere is shaped somewhat like a comet due to pressure of the solar wind. It is compressed on the side toward the sun and extends tail-like on the side away from the sun. The magnetosphere deflects the flow of most solar wind particles around the Earth and protects us from severe solar storms. Artist rendition of solar wind. (K. Endo / National Geophysical Data Center).” (Read more here.)
“Three objects are spinning so quickly that you only see a blur. The three objects are: a line that rotates to make a hyperboloid, a cube that rotates to make a combination of cones and hyperboloid, and three ellipses that rotate to make a cylinder. Pushing a button stops the spinning to reveal the object.”
Inspired by the logic of pure mathematics, Tom Dixon designed his Etch Light Web to cast a delicate pattern of geometric shadows on all that it illuminates.
Spirograph - Imgur
Yasuaki Onishi - Reverse of Volume RG
This time-lapse video documents Yasuaki Onishi’s Rice Gallery residency from 20 March through 10 April, 2012, during which he and an assistant created “reverse of volume RG.”
Geometric patterns on the ceilings of European cathedrals. Photos by David Stephenson.
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By combining massive amounts of diverse data, scientists from NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a beautiful high-resolution model of the Earth’s ocean currents.
The project, called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data—including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data—collected between June 2005 and December 2007. By incorporating these data into an M.I.T. model, the result is “realistic descriptions of how ocean circulation evolves over time,” according to the press release. “These model-data syntheses are among the largest computations of their kind ever undertaken.”
A plot of the complex valued function (z-2)²(z+1-2i)(z+2+2i)/z³ by Hans Lundmark
Quaternion Julia Fractal
Inspired by Chladni patterns, Hans Jenny pioneered the field of Cymatics, a study of visible sound vibration. Tones played at fixed frequencies cause a vibration that creates patterns from light on water.
Lightning in slow motion - Imgur
Awesome video by NASA simulating the evolution of the moon
