Design lecturer John Edmark has created a series of designs for 3D-printed sculptures that appear to move, utilising an effect similar to a zoetrope.
Product designer John Edmark has shared instructions for creating his Blooming Zoetrope Sculptures, which are based on naturally occurring examples of the Fibonnaci sequence and “golden angles” in nature, on DIY website Instructables.
As the sculptures spin on a rotating base, the leaves and patterns on them appear to move up and down when they are lit with a strobe light.
The designer, who teaches at Stanford University as well as running his own firm, created the designs as part of his role as artist in residence for Instructables, the popular DIY network that was bought by software giant Autodesk in 2011.
“If you follow what appears to be a single petal as it works its way out and down the sculpture, what you are actually seeing is all the petals on the sculpture in the order of their respective distances from the top-centre,” explained Edmark in his Intructables post.
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