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Asinas II

Kinetic sculpture by Jennifer Townley is an iteration of a previous piece from 2015 yet still visually complex and mesmerizing:

‘Asinas
II’ is the successor of the original sculpture ‘Asinas’, showing the
same concept and overall appearance but a different shape for the white
“wing” parts.

The
various angles and curves of the individual parts create an
elaborated unity when joined together on the shaft. The two “wings”
formed by these seventy-seven parts are able to slide through each other
and rotate in opposite direction at a slightly different speed. This
results in a movement that appears to be far more complex, existing of
multiple layers, where repetitive shapes seem to be moving within
oneanother.

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On Surreal Sunday the Department of Captivating Kinetic Art can’t take their eyes off Asinas II, this mesmerizing kinetic sculpture created by artist Jennifer Townley.

ri-science:

Erwin Schrödinger coined the term ‘wave mechanics’ (or Wellenmechanik) on this day in 1926 in a letter to Albert Einstein.

He had been inspired by a footnote in a paper by Einstein to model movement of an electron around a nucleus as a wave rather than orbiting particle.

To celebrate, enjoy these waves of a different sort from Lawrence Bragg’s 1950 series, The Nature of Things.

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