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Woodcarving Magic: How to Transform a Single Block of Wood Into Impossible Shapes de Bjarne Jespersen

Woodcarving Magic: How to Transform a Single Block of Wood Into Impossible Shapes

Autor Bjarne Jespersen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2011
Caution: Mind boggling woodcarving projects!

If you thought carving the linked chain or the ball-in-cage was a challenge, get ready for Bjarne Jespersen and his mind-altering woodcarving projects! Bjarne is a master woodcarver from Denmark and has spent his life studying geometric form. In this book, he shares over 25 amazing designs and projects for woodcarving. From flat rings, to linked cages, to magic spheres and beyond—this is a book that will keep woodcarvers challenged for a long time! Each project includes detailed diagrams illustrating the carving process along with notes from the author about the composition and design. The book includes information about this tradition of woodcarving and a detailed appendix.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781565235236
ISBN-10: 1565235231
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 160 color photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 218 x 278 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Fox Chapel Publishing

Cuprins

Introduction

Traditions

General preparations
  1. Wood
  2. Tools and methods
  3. Muck-ups and prototypes


Special preparations *)
  1. The golden section
  2. Dodecahedron cut from a cube
  3. Icosahedron cut from a cube
  4. Dodecahedron cut from a plank
  5. Icosahedron cut from a plank
  6. Rhombic Dodecahedron


Getting started
  1. Hopf Link
  2. Lover’s Hearts
  3. Chains
  4. Borromean Rings


Flat Rings **)
  1. Four Triangles
  2. Square Dance
  3. Six Pentagons
  4. Star Cluster
  5. Clover Leaves
  6. Halo


Cages, simple and linked
  1. Six Nested Spheres
  2. Serenity and Decay
  3. Double Star
  4. Flexus
  5. Asalink
  6. Five Tetrahedra


Magic spheres
  1. Ancorage
  2. Double S
  3. Wonder Ball
  4. Puzzle Ball
  5. Escher Ball with Termites


Curved Rings
  1. Helicon
  2. Triple Whitehead
  3. Wave Packet
  4. Tetracoil
  5. Hexacoil


Knotted Rings Torus knots and links Three Tetraknots

Creative Geometry **)
  1. Flat rings
  2. A leap forward
  3. Themes and variations
  4. Inside out
  5. Diagrams and kinship
  6. Regular diagrams
  7. Duality and rhombic solids
  8. Rhombic diagrams
  9. Using the diagrams
  10. Family table

Recenzii

This beautiful and extraordinary book not only teaches, but inspires and awes. Reconciling the impossible and possible has always been my aspiration, but I've also realized it's necessary to do so with an established harmony of thought, emotion, and human touch. The organic material of wood yields itself naturally to this challenge; I used wood to create the first prototype of the Cube. To succeed at such tasks, ordinary or extravagant, brings pure joy--as I am convinced readers of this book will testify.  -Ernö Rubik, creator of the Rubik's Cube

This beautiful and extraordinary book not only teaches, but inspires and awes. Reconciling the impossible and possible has always been my aspiration, but I've also realized it's necessary to do so with an established harmony of thought, emotion, and human touch. The organic material of wood yields itself naturally to this challenge; I used wood to create the first prototype of the Cube. To succeed at such tasks, ordinary or extravagant, brings pure joy--as I am convinced readers of this book will testify. -Erno Rubik, creator of the Rubik's Cube

Notă biografică

Bjarne Jespersen is an internationally-known woodcarver and sculptor with a passion for mathmatics and geometry. He uses creative geometry to give new life to "magic woodcarving" - carving a piece of wood into sections that are loose but cannot be separated.

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There is a school of mathematical art that explores the frontiers of what is possible in a given space, and author Bjarne Jespersen is a master of this art. In Woodcarving Magic, he will show you how to uncover the structure of space by looking inside pieces of wood and carving away anything that doesn't match your vision. With more than 25 designs for carving "tricky objects" with connected parts that are loose, yet cannot be taken apart, you'll learn to craft astonishing linked cages, knotted rings, and more. You'll learn how to get started with advice on choosing wood, selecting tools, and preparing blanks. Woodcarving Magic has projects for both the beginner and the experienced carver, featuring step-by-step diagrams and detailed instructions that break down the process into achievable steps. Those with engineering minds will enjoy the author's explanations of his creative geometric methods. Those with mathematical minds will marvel at how beautifully art and math come together. And those who enjoy woodcarving will find challenges to strengthen their skills and will appreciate the novel forms presented.

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A master woodcarver from Denmark who has spent his life studying geometric form shares more than 25 amazing designs and projects for woodcarving. Each project includes detailed diagrams illustrating the carving process along with notes from the author about the composition and design.