The pumping thing engine 1.1 - first two months anthology

 

 

An anthology after two months of the pumping thing engine 1.1 on tumblr.
Pumping platonic compounds automatically created and posted by a computer.
An updated version of the engine is coming up.

Compound running

Dazzling talk by Dr. Anne Tyng about platonic solids

The pumping thing generator 1.1 is up and running on tumblr.
Pumping platonic solids automatically created and posted by a computer, a couple of times a day as an ongoing tribute to the architecture of Anne Tyng.

Anne Tyng at the ICA in Philadelphia

Anne Tyng and a couple of her models, at the ICA in Philadelphia in 2011 from Francis Jonckheere on Vimeo.

Touching point

I'm developing a pumping-thing generator in Wolfram Mathematica, based on the principle that, when two regular polyhedra with the same center point are rotated relative to each other, an infinite number of different compounds can be generated. And all the compounds can pump.

Update resources

I updated my resource page on my website.

There are updates for:

	Every now and then, I need nesting software. And a free and good nesting program is hard to find. I use nestlib because it's the best I could find.
	Wolfram Mathematica is a more professional take on producing animated geometric constellations. I used Mathematica to develop a pumping-thing generator. This software is not easy to learn and the version for hobbyists and enthusiasts costs $300.
	Tinckercad from Autodesk is a free and online 3D modeling program. I prefer working with SketchUp but I use Tinckercad to prepare solids for 3D printing.
	I've ordered quite a lot of 3D prints from i.materialise, the online 3D printing service from Materialise. I'm happy every time.