also, i think shapes have a certain purity to them, that is quite independent of whatever projection humans put upon them. and this is very attractive. i was reviewing some far out art pages yesterday, and i was struck by how tiring and gluey art is. it always wants to attach itself to our perceptio...

Guy, you asked : " For example the Pythagoreans had their pentagram. Do you have any particular teaching in mind?" i think my answer is a bit complicated. i believe certain shapes have certain qualities and attached capabilities. so i am only interested in any teaching so long as it can tell me abou...

i noticed that one or two days over the weekend i couldnt get on the server. perhaps it is shut down sometimes.

very nice posts. i've been thinking about them. i'll have more to say but i wanted to ask Ulrich --- are you able to make your figures rotate in the stella program, with the top tetragon rotating in the opposite direction from the bottom tetragon both in the same display? i want so much to do this, ...

My goodness, Ulrich. that is quite a bit of work you did, and the figure is lovely with a great choice of colors. this is a very nice static representation of a functioning merkaba, which is often shown symbolically as a star of david (two equilateral triangles equally interpenetrated). i like the w...

Thank you, Rob, for your lengthy comment. yes, it would be nice to lock one axis. perhaps if the user could click on the axis they wanted to lock, by choosing one of the colored pins that stick out of the vertices and faces when you push the little yellow menu wheel called "show symmetry axis." thos...

Ulrich, would you please tell me how?

i really want to know this.

Very nice, Ulrich. and you even have the upper tetragon spinning deasil and the lower one is spinning widdershins. (edit 130717: to me, at this time, the upper blue tetra appears to be spinning withershins-counterclockwise; and the bottom red tetra is spinning deasil-clockwise in this image tet2_2k2...

do show more.

i'd like to see the models in stages of construction, in addition to the finished beauty.

that's because you weren't spinning it properly. :wink: i did make a tetrahedron in simple stella and made it spin. it is awfully hard to keep it vertical --it seems to want to "precess" is that the right word? rather than staying on a point axis, the vertical rotates on a small circle axis at the t...

the merkaba seems to generate its own gravitic reference point.

it is intact.

i have been enjoying the demo version of stella very much. but i would like to be able to create a merkaba, a visual representation, of a merkaba, and i dont see that the simple stella program would do that. i wonder if the one of more complex programs can do that? i want to buy the correct program.

hello. I am 3katie3. i have studied sacred geometries somewhat, and i would like to be able to talk about them here, and to request certain images. of course the most important and well known sacred geometry is the merkaba which is two interpenetrating tetrahedrons, each of which is rotating in the ...

fantastic pictures. just beautiful. i love looking at them.