Coexisting With The Fair Folk Who Have Taken Up Residence In/Around/Beneath Your University: A How-To

Malachite - Banat Mountains, Caras-Severin County, Romania

Mount Roraima, South America: This tabletop mountain is one of the oldest mountains on Earth, dating back two billion years when the land was lifted high above the ground by tectonic activity. The sides of the mountain are sheer vertical cliffs, with several waterfalls, making it nearly impossible to climb.

Derelict Gothic Abbey ~ Jorge Carlos Gonzalez

Ernst Chladni

Klangfiguren, 1787

One of Chladni’s best-known achievements was inventing a technique to show the various modes of vibration of a rigid surface. First published in 1787 in his book Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges, the technique consists of drawing a bow over a (circular, square, or rectangular) plate or membrane whose surface is lightly covered with sand. When stroked, a given plate will resonate at one of its natural frequencies. The sand bounces about on the plate until settling at nodal points (areas of zero movement) thereby producing intricate patterns. These patterns are now called Chladni figures.

Die Akustic, 1802

Nodal lines of vibrating circular or polygonal  plates, acording to Chladni and Savart. The breakthrough work acquired a status of foundational work of a new scientific field and earned him a title of “father of acoustics”. It was the first systematic description of the vibrations of elastic bodies. see the full archive on geometrymatters.com

Phyllotaxy - the arrangement of leaves

Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature, depicting the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem. The basic patterns are alternate, opposite, whorled or spiral, many of them arranged based on consecutive fibonacci numbers.

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Nina Kain by GreenSprite

Practical, not sexist or supposed-to-look-hot female armor which actually protects you.

Golden Flower by Le Vuong

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