Pages from Geometria (1543) by German artist, mathematician, and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel. In this version from the Deutsche Fotothek, amid the rigid lines of the geometrical sketches appear the chaotic forms of stains: https://t.co/kLPGVBN1kP
Why is there a central cube bubble inside this dodecahedron wireframe? I expected the dodecahedron central bubble, but there are so many local minimums that aren't the true minimum surface area that many possible geometries are possible. Beautiful!