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Painting in the Hyperbolic Plane

While playing around texturing the hyperbolic football from the previous post I discovered this technique for painting hyperbolic tilings directly in Blender. Download the hyperboli...

Hyperbolic Tiling in 3D

In a previous post I explained the shape of planes, spheres, and hyperbolic planes in terms of hexagons arranged around either another hexagon (plane), a pentagon (sphere) or a hepta...

Shaders for Sverchok 04 - Vertex Colors Update

When I wrote my Shaders for Sverchok 02 - Vertex Colors post, I used a small piece of python code to assign the vertex colors. Sverchok now has a "Vertex Colors" node and I'll now sh...

Blender Linked Stars

I've been fascinated by the structure of Bathsheba Grossman's Quin Pendant Lamp since I first saw it. There are many tutorials around the web for making a similar structure in differ...

Bloom Spheres in Sverchok

These videos by John Edmark of what he calls bloom spheres inspired me to try something similar in Sverchok. Edmark has designed and 3D printed forms that when spun under a strobe li...