November 5,
Saturday
Mr. Paul
Hildebrandt, president of Zometool Inc and his niece Kathryn visited Japan to be
part of this conference. This is their first visit to Japan. The model they built is called
"Star of Hope" with using blue and special white struts. 3
mutually perpendicular Golden Mean rectangles define an icosahedron which is
stellated. Ruled (minimal) surfaces are
built in the spaces between each 2 adjacent isosceles triangles of the
stellation. Paul and Kathryn built it within 30 minutes. This is the of the Paul’s favorite
models. The hall is full of masterpieces
on FORMS. There were some Zomeworks
by
the members exhibited as well. Paul saya “It is possible to build every form in
this world with Zometool.” TheZome
artists can build such models as dragons. In 2006Bridges,
they plan to build Zome
permanent sculpture in London. At the
party in the evening, we met Dr. Miyazaki and many reserchers.The Society is
celebrating the 20th anniversary this year. They have been having 3 conferences
a year every year in 20years. This shows
the devotion and the extraordinary enthusiasm on the study on forms and efforts
of the members of the society.http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/form/
November 6, Sunday
Paul, Kathryn and Mr. Maehata, our chairman, held the workshop at the World
Art Museum for Children inOkazaki. They
built Polytope with Zome parts with many children. 4 dimensional shape is hard to understand for
adults. I wonder how does the four
dimentional object look to the children when they see them., apart from the theory.
They were so amazed
at the masterpiece they built. Paul and
Kathryn handled Zome parts like a part of their own body. Paul calls Zometool “A New language for
understanding the structure of shape” and they seems to speak the language very
fluently.
November 7, Monday
Paul gave his presentation, "Introduction to Zome: A New language for understanding the structure of
shape” at 2 pm in the conference of Society for Science on Form .There were about a hundred members among the audience. With through preparation, he explained the basic theory of
Zome. There was asuggestion among the
audience that they would like to have flexible struts and big nodes for
children. According to Paul, they might
develop the transparent, black and short struts for experts. Kathryn built a new construction kit,
“Leonardo Sticks”with which you can build a dome without one single nail. The 60th Conference closed in success with
many speeches and exhibitions.
Big
news from The Society for Science on Form !!
1.Encyclopedia of Science on Form
published by Asakura,editted by The Society for Science
on Form, received "the Good Planning Award by the Mainichi Publishing
Culture Award." Prof. Takeshi Yoro's recommendation quotes: "this
book is the comprehensive work as of now in the sense of scientific approach in
analysis of the various forms created by Nature." According to him, "40% of the input to a human
brain is aquired by sight. Among the things constructed logically in brain,
forms are the most interesting." Now we know why it is interesting for both adults and children as well
to play with forms. Experts in the each
specialized fields wrote essays on each topic in this encyclopedia so that it
will be easily understood among the non-professional readers. You can also pick up the topic you are
interested in. It took 5years
to complete this
book by the Society editing members including Dr.Miyazaki.
2.Announcement
of Image Mission Award
To
commemorate the 20th anniversary of The Society for Science on Form, the entry for the
Image Mission Award is widely recruited from both Japan and abroad. The subject
is
original study, model or paper on forms. The details
follow:
Recruit :
Nov, 2005〜 The end of March, 2006
Articles: Form is free. Photographs
indicating the structures distinctly should be attached.
Papers: Within 5
pages of A4 sized papers. The Studies or paper in Japanese or
English
Supported by: The
Society for Science on Form
The Awards:
The Best Award: 1 \50,000 and 1 Creator
kit
The Second Best
Award: 1 \20,0000 and 1 Explorer kit
Fine Works: 2 \10,000 and 1 Adventure
kit
Examined by: The Judging Committee by The Society for Science on Form
As the constitution of
form, good discussion and ideas will be evaluated, especially ones with good
studies.
Announcement of the Winners: June, 2006
Sent to:The Image Mission Award of the 20th Anniversary ofThe Society for Science on Form
19-8 Mizuochi-cho, Aoi-ku,
Shizuoka
420-0831Japan
Contact to:
Tel: 81 + 54-200-2818, E-mail: image@aqua.ocn.ne.jp
Entry
from overseas is welcome!
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