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Yes! And may we introduce... The General! 🌲 Did you know the General Sherman Tree is the largest tree on Earth by volume? It's over 2,200 years old, stands a whopping 275 feet tall, and its trunk alone weighs an estimated 1,385 tons. When Ken asked us to create a metal version of this legendary sequoia, we knew it had to be something special. While ours isn’t quite 36 feet wide or 3,000 years in the making, it’s crafted with precision, heart, and a deep appreciation for the awe-inspiring General Sherman. This piece is proof that even the biggest ideas can fit on your wall. 🌲 Where would you display The General? #MetalArt #SequoiaInspired #GeneralSherman #RusticMetalz #TreeFacts #CustomMetalDesign

This tessellation is based on the space-filling Gosper curve. To each edge corresponds a pentagon, in fact a degenerated hexagon, since 2 edges are in line with each other. An artistic impression is made of the flood filled Gosper curve after closing it by connecting the beginpoint and endpoint. The inspiration of this tessellation comes from the artwork Flow Fish III, made by Richard Hassell. I am very amazed how that artwork is designed, and it took me quite a while to unravel it. The shapes of the 3 pentagons underlying the image are different. On the other hand all fish tiles have the same shape. This has been realized by adding two vertices to each pentagon, yielding 3 (degenerated) octagons as basic shapes. Deforming the two independent edges is not straightforward to maintain the same shapes: one of the edges can only be deformed symmetrical about the perpendicular between its vertices. #mcescher #escherart #escher #mathart #digitalart #fish #space #gosper #curve #fractal #Tissellator

This Escheresque tessellation is based on a space-filling curve belonging to the root-25 square grid family, which means that the generator start point and end point have a distance of sqrt(25) = 5 in a square grid. There are 15 different generators possible between these pairs of points with a difference vector of (3,4). In this segment-based tessellation, a (deformed) square tile can be assigned to the left side of the curve (blue tile) or to the right side of the curve (yellow tile). The curve has on both sides a differently colored tile, or it lies at a border,or the curve goes forth and back. It is a nice puzzle to figure out which tile belongs to which segment, as was for the generators. (Hint: the curve has no U-turns.) After two iterations with 625 tiles, the curve starts at the right side of the top and ends below at the right. #mcescher #escherart #escher #mathart #digitalart #space #curve #path #fractal #Tissellator

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INTERMEDIATE SECTION The intermediate section is designed as a space truss. The belt is centered by deflector rollers.

The span width of our polygonal roof tents are from 10m to 50m and the length has no limitation. Length can be any times of 3m, 5m modular. There is no pole inside the tent, which enables you to make maximum use of the space inside.  https://lnkd.in/gjTWKNM2

Möbius strip: the mindbending shape with only one side. A one-sided surface that can be constructed by affixing the ends of a rectangular strip after first having given one of the ends a one-half twist. This space exhibits interesting properties, such as having only one side and remaining in one piece when split down the middle. 

Mylonitic and boudinage structures in garnet mica schists indicate intense ductile deformation. Mylonitic textures form through dynamic recrystallization under shear stress, producing fine-grained foliated bands. Boudinage structures result from extension, where the rock layers are stretched and segmented into lens-shaped blocks, typically surrounded by a matrix of mica and quartz. These features reflect the high strain conditions and deformation history of the schists.

𝟑𝐃 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 🌊𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞̀𝐭𝐞-𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧: 𝟑𝐃 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐙𝐈𝐅𝐌𝐀𝐑 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🌊 A section of more than 500m of the ZIFMAR rubble mound breakwater is at the present time modelled in Océanide’s 3D coastal tank to: 🧪 Test the stability of: * Armor layer made of 6m3 ACCROPODEIITM * Toe which is attacked by breaking waves * Crownwall with 15m reproduced with 3 walls of 5m each at scale in geometry and mass 📐 Measure: * Overtopping * Wave loads on the crown wall with a 6D balance   Transitions with the remaining existing dike have been deeply detailed and the model drawings will be used as basis for work specifications that should come next. 🙏We want to thank La Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée for the collaborative work and the high level of confidence we developed !! #study #breakwater #coastalengineering #jetty #accropode #oceanide