Friendly Sparkling Alien Spaceships

I know, I am again using this metaphor! But once I saw the friendly alien spaceships in these images, I could not unsee them! There is more background information about these sparkling ellipsoid and spheres in my previous post. Today I only want to show you number 2 and 3 in this series of four ... add create overdue poetry! In a private browser window, I am searching for "Friendly Sparkling Alien Spaceships" in DuckDuckGo. Visiting each search result one after the other, I pick a short […]

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Bumblebees and Ellipsoids (Poinsot’s Paper Spaceship #3)

In the movie Ice Age, Manny the Mammoth says he is not fat - just poofy! It is just the fur! I feel the same must be true for bumblebees - they are fluffy, but not really fat! And yes, these were the things going through my mind, when I created this geometric drawing: A sphere is intersected by a "fat" ellipsoid that is neither an oblate UFO nor an elongated zeppelin. Poinsot's Paper Spaceship #3 - Bumblebee by elkement 2025. Geometric drawing of an ellipsoid intersecting a sphere […]

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Geometry of the Physics of the Gyroscope – on a Coffee Mug!

Construct the Labyrinth from Which You Plan to Escape ... has been the motto of the Oulipo movement, French writers and mathematicians who have boosted their creative writing by imposing arbitrary constraints. I had practiced Oulipo long before I knew the term. I just called it Search Term Poetry or Spam Poetry. I have been picking unedited snippets from text, presented by search engines mostly. Creativity flows like a river, constrained by topography and guided by […]

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Unsere private Exkursion während der #Intergeo 2025, Frankfurt, ging auf den Großen Feldberg. Der dort stehende Gradmessungspfeiler erinnert an die Europäische Gradmessung 1868. #Pylone #INTERGEO2025
Diese Messung wurde von dem Geodäten Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794-1885) initiiert.
Die Ergebnisse dienten zur genaueren Festlegung der Werte des Erd- #Ellipsoid |s. (Äquatorhalbachse, Polhalbachse, Erdabplattung)
Damals gab es aber sicherlich besseres Wetter und eine bessere Sicht!

See https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/796798349526747214 and https://pixelfed.social/p/Splines/796786779066451143 for detail.

Just like #ArcZero in the #spiral for the #IonicVolute, the plan for #EggsAndDarts starts out larger than what is eventually used.

The outermost frame is 7.5 parts or 60 units tall (from A to D), and 5 parts or 40 units wide when µ = 144. The innermost frame is 6 parts or 48 units tall (from B to C), and 4 parts or 32 units wide.

The height and width for both inner and outer are in 3:2 ratio. The difference in height is also split in the ratio 3:2. So, the gap between A and B as 12*2/5 = 4.8, and the gap between C and D as 12*3/5 = 7.2. We then divide both of these gaps in 5 equal segments shown by the dots between them.

Create an ellipse to fill the outer frame, and another to fill in the inner frame. Then interpolate them to create 4 more through the dots, only to delete the 3rd ellipse. This gives us the 5 #rails for sweeping the rim of the egg.

Create circles perpendicular to and touching adjacent pairs of rails, and then #sweepTwoRails using the circles to get the rim shown in the top-right. The red cutting plane marks tentative slicing for eggs.

The bottom left image shows a convex egg created with an #ellipsoid that is 48 units tall, 32 units wide, and 32 units deep. This is equivalent to #revolving the innermost ellipse around its major axis. Only half of this egg is above the oval slab.

The bottom right image shows the concave variant which is created by performing a #booleanDifference between the oval slab and the round egg created above. The top portion of the egg is removed in the concave variant, but the convex variant must still account for the bulge of a fully round egg. As such, the slab heights of the convex and concave variant are different. I will show the measurements later.

To create the slabs for the convex and concave variants, #extrude the outermost ellipse according to their measurements and #cap #planarHoles.

Astronomers Employ Novel Technique for Searching for Alien Technosignatures
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/seti-ellipsoid-12682.html #SETI #Ellipsoid #Alien #Technosignatures #Gaia #TESS

Earth Is a Potato
Gravitationally speaking
Earth, in fact, is an ellipsoid, a little bit squashed at the poles and fat around the equator, not to mention speckled with mountain ranges. And then you have the geoid people—the ones who think of Earth less as an imperfect sphere and more as a lumpy potato.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/earth-shape-geoid-gravitational-influence/674664/?utm_source=feed #earth #potato #gravitationally #sphere #ellipsoid #geoid #LumpyPotatoid