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The GCHQ-Government Communications Headquarters building in Cheltenham. The aforementioned torus
From Here I am in a real world.... |
The Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio. The proportions perfect whole number ratios like harmonics, giving rise to the phrase 'frozen music'
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City Hall, headquarters of the Greater London Assembly. Not just a favourite hangout of Boris Johnson, but also a distorted sphere
From Here I am in a real world.... |
Grande Arche de la Defense in Paris. Shadow of a 4D cube
From Here I am in a real world.... |
La Geode in Paris. A huge silver sphere
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the Grand National rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach in Blackpool was a möbius strip
From Here I am in a real world.... |
The Frank Gehry Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. An example of Riemanian geometry
From Here I am in a real world.... |
The Parthenon in Athens uses the golden ratio. To stunning effect
From Here I am in a real world.... |
The Sage Music centre in Gateshead is made from 27 pieces of a torus
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Egypt: pyramid
From Here I am in a real world.... |
Great inspiration sometimes comes from the beauty of Math
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