Chaim Goodman-Strauss American, b. 1967
Gyring Gyroid, 2012
(collaboration with Eugene Sargent)
steel
steel
42 in. diameter
CGS004
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Created in honor of Tom Rodgers at the 2012 Gathering 4 Gardner. (learn more ) This piece of samurai space insect armor shows a particular mathematical surface, the gyroid ,...
Created in honor of Tom Rodgers at the 2012 Gathering 4 Gardner. (learn more)
This piece of samurai space insect armor shows a particular mathematical surface, the gyroid, that naturally arises in many forms. Discovered by Alan Schoen in the late 1960s, the gyroid is popular among mathematical artists for its confusing simplicity (or simple confusion).