Belgian visual artist Carole Louis is the creator of "Through Thousands," a sculpture constructed from thousands of plastic straws.
Like fiber optics, basically thousands of tiny “straws” guiding light across huge distances at near-light speed.
Clubs numeral card. Die Jungfrau von Orleans Transformation Playing Card Deck. Designer: Countess Charlotte von Jennison-Walworth. Publisher: Johann Friedrich Cotta, Tübingen, 1805. Technique: Stipple engraving on copperplate.
While the deck's illustrated court cards directly depicted characters from the play, the numeral cards featured independent illustrations like this one, drawn without any shared theme. Plus, aristocrats of this era didn't use these decks strictly for playing games. Like most playing cards in the early 19th century, the backs of Cotta's cards were completely blank and unpatterned. This allowed the nobility to use them as calling cards. When visiting an estate, people would write their names or brief messages on the blank backs to leave word for the host, handing them to the servants at the door.
Agnes Denes. The Reflection (1981); Snail Pyramid, Study for Self-Contained, Self-Supporting City Dwelling: A Future Habitat (1988); Probability Pyramid (1992).
Athanasius Kircher, Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (The Great Art of Light and Shadow). 1646.
Engravings.
One of the last great Renaissance polymaths, Kircher was a Jesuit scholar whose work ranged across optics, magnetism, music, linguistics, Egyptology, and cosmology.
Exploring and revealing a vast mathematical landscape formed from a simple formula:
( x & y ) % ( y - x) % 37
Visualization by Non-Euclidean Dreamer, @NonEuclideanDr1, cc by-nc-sa