Sixty Sinusoidal Serpents Slithering on a Sphere (artwork) @ drMathArt: The Mathematical Art of David Reimann

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Sixty Sinusoidal Serpents Slithering on a Sphere (artwork)

Sixty Sinusoidal Serpents Slithering on a Sphere Plywood, screws, 18 in 2016

A reciprocal structure based on the icosidodecahedron featuring sixty sinusoidal serpents slithering on a sphere.

Background and Inspiration

serpent — One of the serpent units. The serpent boundaries and the holes were laser cut. The eyes and stripes were etched with the laser at a lower power. While the overall shape is sinusoidal, the holes are in a rhombic pattern.

Related Works

See the page on Expanded Polyhedral Forms.

Exhibition History

Bridges 2017 General Exhibition, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 27–31 July 2017.
Bridges 2017 Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Baltimore, Maryland. 29 July – 2 August 2017.

Publication History

Bridges Waterloo Art Exhibition Catalog, p. 109, Edited by Conan Chadbourne, Robert Fathauer, Katie McCallum, and Nathan Selikoff, ISBN: 978-1-938664-23-6, Tessellations Publishing, 2017.