Insurers' journeys to build a mastery in the IoT usage
Sculptures from Fabric Structures
1. Sculpture from Fabric Structures
James Mallos
Mathematically Inclined
Takoma Park, April 5, 2013
Closure, 2013.
2. A short history of
assembled sculpture
Picasso Calder
Lewitt
Shapiro Asawa
3. The components are sculptures themselves:
Empathetic Neutral Antipathetic
identification alienation
4. Where it all started for me...
...at the Textile Museum bookstore.
5. I liked this picture:
Photo from “The Primary Structures of Fabrics.”
(By the light of later understanding: an assembly of
empathetic elements evokes society.)
13. ...small.
Maquette for Olivier’s Fingertip,
2008.
14. Weaving’s got an ugly problem...
...closed shapes require splices.
15. An attractive solution is unit weaving: all the
elements are short, and splices are everywhere.
Da Vinci, “Codex Atlantico.”
16. Truchet tiles show that unit weaving works on any
orientable surface (but not on a Möbius strip or the like.)
Triangular truchet tiles for unit weaving.
17. Many of my sculptures are unit weaving.
City of Alexandria, Mental Map, 2007.
23. So...are there other fabric-making techniques that
can make every surface?
A theorem in topology gives a clue...
24. Any closed surface can be slit open in such a way
that the whole surface can be stretched out to a
polygon with an even number of sides.
25. Any closed surface can be slit open in such a way
that the whole can be stretched out to a polygon!
Eiffel Tower The elastomeric
(1889) surface slit,
2-Manifold
Surface stripped, and
without stretched out to
Elastomeric Boundary a many-sided
Dip Coat (2013) polygon
26. Making a polygon is child’s play for any fabric-
making technique...
...but we still have to suture up the cuts. That
means working new-into-old, or patching.
28. Crochet is the only endless thread*
technique that readily works new-into-old.
* i.e., the whole yarn or wire supply does
not need to be passed through each stitch.
