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OK, I've gotten hooked on puzzles. I'm blaming it on a friend who started giving me theirs after finishing them. I'm not going to admit how many I've bought for myself. This is a collage of close-ups of one I completed recently.
Parc de la Villette PARIS
La Géode is an Omnimax theatre in the Parc de la Villette at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris. It opened on May 6, 1985. The architect was Adrien Fainsilber.
The spere has a diameter of 36 meters and is made by 6433 mirror glass spherical triangles.
It is fitted with the only 12.1 sound system in the world (21 000 Watt), designed by Cabasse.
More than 1000 views within 4 days after upload (11/02/2008)
Geode is a jigsaw puzzle inspired by the formation of agates, a colorful banded stone. Each puzzle is unique, emerging from a computer simulation that creates natural variations in the shape, pieces, and image.
Cut style - Maze
This puzzle is cut in a dense, maze-like cut pattern. The extreme intertwining and high piece count make Maze our hardest cut style. The pieces are grown in a simulation of elastic rods. The edges grow, lengthening, until they collide, pushing each other into contorted shapes.
Artwork - Algorithmic Agate
Each computer generated image represents a slice of an algorithmic geode. Concentric layers of color radiate from the puzzle’s edge filling the surface with a banded pattern reminiscent of agate. Each band of growth exhibits slight changes in growth rate, color and character resulting in a unique pattern.
A quartz amethyst geode.
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Here's one of my son's old stones - unable to name it though!
I dedicate this to my friend Racy Palindrome Guy! www.flickr.com/photos/carl_lexicon/
Ubicada en la Cites de sciences, este edificio esferico tiene 36 m de diametro y dentro es una gran sala de cine y teatro.
This structure, known as the Geode, is in fact also a cinema and is an impressive 26 meters wide, making it one of the largest cinemas in the world and is much larger and reflective than you would expect when you stand next to it!
See more www.eutouring.com/images_paris.html
This was a beautiful colors slice of geode which i decided to back light and side light it to enhance the colors.
Nikon D800
Nikon 105mm 2.8G VR Micro
Obrigado Regina....for showing me around Brazil! Regina was our exchange student .......she and her family have visited us several times...my first visit to Sao Paulo to see my brazilian sister and her whole family!
16x80 boxpleat
Outre les géométries régulières, les minéraux sont un sujet pas très commun en origami. J'avais trouvé l'idée de faire une géode en voyant une telle pierre et me demandant si son «origamisation »était possible. La méthode était simple: produire une tesselation régulière pour les cristaux et lui enrouler du papier froissé pour l'extérieur. Pour les cristaux, j'ai tenté une tesselation sur grille triangulaire, mais sans succès. Mon choix s'est porté sur la tesselation de base de bombe à eau (ex: laine du mouton de Beth Johnson) en raison de son utilisation optimale de papier. L'accès au papier devient plus restreint lors du modelage, ce qui le rend particulièrement difficile. Heureusement, le modelage pour un minéral se porte bien à l'improvisation! L'arrière du modèle ressemble à n'importe quelle «roche en origami».
Other than regular geometries, minerals are a very uncommon subject in origami. I had the idea of making a geode by seeing bone and asking myself if its «origamisation» was possible. The method was simple: make a tessellation for the cristals and wrap crumpled paper around it. For the cristals, I tried a triangular grid tessellation without success. My choice ended up on the water bomb base tessellation (ex: wool on Beth Johnson's sheep) for its optimal use of paper. The access to the paper becomes more restricted during shaping, making it particularly difficult. At the very least, it is easy to improvise the shaping for a mineral! The back of the model looks like any «origami rock».
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Photo prise depuis la cité des sciences. Paris. France
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: AF FISHEYE Nikkor 10.5 mm 1:2.8 | f/2.8 | ISO 100 |
HDR: Triple Exposure bracketed @ -2.0 | 0 | +2.0
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