Moving Mobius Strip

Below is an animated Mobius Strip. I can imagine this being used in an assembly plant somewhere in the States.

Picture it, chocolates coming off of the Mobius conveyer with Ethel and Lucy manning the packing stations at the chocolate factory.

What is a Mobius Strip well The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 says the following:

Mobius strip \Mo"bi*us strip`\, Mobius strip \M["o]"bi*us
strip`\, Moebius strip \Moe"bi*us strip`\, n. [From August F. M["o]bius, a German mathematician.]
A mathematical object, or a physical representation of it, which is a two-dimensional sheet with only one surface. It is constructed or visualized as a rectangle, one end of which is held fixed while the opposite end is twisted through a 180 degree angle and joined to the fixed end. It is a two-dimensional object that can only exist in a three-dimensional space.

The moebius strip was the subject of a famous woodcut by M. Escher, published in 1963.


Mobius Strip
Escher, M.C.
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Hydrogen Side-effect Illusion

Sci-Art Bloggers Friday Favorites

They said the only product of a hydrogen powered automobile is water. But I never imagined it would be this much. I guess it takes a lot of hydrogen to move a car.

On the plus side sales of umbrellas and raincoats should skyrocket.

Well this is early in the formation of the Sci-Art bloggers. A group that frequently covers that area where art and science overlap.

I would like to welcome Poligraf of The Daily Poligraf to the group. He lives in Quebec, Canada and officially accepted the invitation to join this week with a post explaining the Impossible Triangle.

Below are some postings from our members that I picked for our fourth Friday Favorites set.

From:

Bibi's Box "Die kleine Bananenrepublik"
Inner_Muse "Stained Glass Picture Window"
She Dreams in Digital "Prisma"
What Is It? "Pseudoscope"
Artsy Science "Dragon Skin"

As our group grows I will only put posts here that are submitted by the members. But until then enjoy some fascinating posts for this week.

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Fractal Spiral Poster Art

If you didn't read the caution above please do so now.

I found this optical illusion on a poster art site. For it's size it has a lot of motion in it.

Now picture this in a 2' x 3' size.

At that size I would recommend the standard at least one foot on the floor while looking at it to keep the room from spinning.

With all of the students starting college this week I thought this might make the perfect accessory for a new dorm room.

This poster art is sure to help keep you alert during those long study sessions.

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Land Shark Optical Illusion

The cleverest species of them all.

This was featured in the Economist Magazine article titled "Top Ten Signs" and was a finalist for an Epica Award in 2003.

All this time I thought the "Land Shark" skits on Saturday Night Live were just comic fun. Little did I know at the time that this might happen.

It starts out innocently, a caring relative gets an exotic pet for their niece or nephew. The beast gets big enough to take off a fingertip and flush it's gone. But being the cleverest species of them all, they adapt and the next thing you know you have a land shark as big as a bus.

Heard on the radio, a brief about the terror known as the "Land Shark."

...considered the cleverest of all sharks. Unlike the great white, which tends to inhabit the waters of harbors and recreational beach areas, the Land Shark may strike at any place, any time. It is capable of disguising its voice, and generally preys on young, single women. Experts at the University of Miami's Oceanographic Institute suggest that the best way to scare off the shark in the event of an attack is to hit or punch the predator in the Nose. Now for the weather..

Knock Knock!
Who is it?
Candygram........

Read the complete transcript.

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Frog Spawn Optical Illusion Art

The below image was created by Julian MacDonald. Julian said that this piece was "inspired by M C Escher's 'Reptiles', this is meant to be an image of a painting 'spawning' frogs - while the artist disappears for a cup of coffee, the frogs come out and play!"

Copyright Julian MacDonald (email)
Used with permission

He created this image with the "Art of Illusion" and details some of what he did on this page.

What is the Art of Illusion?

The Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modeling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later. You can get your copy of this software for free here.

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Plumber's Vehicle Trompe l'oeil Illusion

Sci-Art Bloggers Friday Favorites

This is a fun optical illusion. Have you ever seen something similar in your travels?

If you have seen an illusion like this around your town snap a picture and e-mail it to me.

Well this is early in the formation of the Sci-Art bloggers. A group that frequently covers that area where art and science overlap.

I would like to welcome Bibi of Bibi's Box to the group. She lives in São Paulo, Brazil and is the second member of this group outside of the USA.

Below are some postings from our members that I picked for our third Friday Favorites set.

From:

Bibi's Box "Color Portrait of the English Language"
Inner_Muse "HoneyDew"
The Daily Poligraf "Rained In"
She Dreams in Digital "Photo and Media Festival - Davison Michigan" Stacy will be exhibiting her work at this festival, Good Luck Sya.
What Is It? "This weeks photos"
Artsy Science "Cobalt Cushiness"

As our group grows I will only put posts here that are submitted by the members. But until then enjoy some fascinating posts for this week.

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The Global Consciousness Project

Has science discovered a peek into the future?

Real or Illusion?

Wikipedia

The Global Consciousness Project is one of the most significant of current research projects into parapsychology. Based at Princeton, the project researches into the theory that the human consciousness may create an external field which is not detectable via conventional means.

Working on the assumption that while the field of an individual's consciousness is not measurable, the combined field of a large number of people who are experiencing similar thoughts or feelings is measurable, the GCP research asserts that such a field exists.

Their research works by examining the output of hardware random number generators located around the world. The current theory holds that events that have a significant human impact affect the randomness of these generators in a statistically significant way.

Roger D. Nelson started by reviewing two decades of experiments from the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) which repeatedly show that random event generators (REG's) seem to be intentionally influenced to bring about a less random sequence of data - in other words, that human intention can reduce natural entropy and create greater coherence within a random series of events.

Credit NASA

Analysis of some recent events would seem to indicate that these random event generators might actually react to an event before it happens. This might signal that time flows both ways.

RedNova discusses the random event generators:

The machine apparently sensed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre four hours before they happened - but in the fevered mood of conspiracy theories of the time, the claims were swiftly knocked back by sceptics. But last December, it also appeared to forewarn of the Asian tsunami just before the deep sea earthquake that precipitated the epic tragedy.

Now, even the doubters are acknowledging that here is a small box with apparently inexplicable powers.

Science is still studying this phenomena, I would love to know the what, why and how this effect occurs. Hopefully the crew at Princeton will have more info in the next decade.

What do you think? Can mind effect matter?

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