Watch out--this one's long! Over the weekend I experienced a few epiphanies about toroid flowers and it seemed like a good opportunity to do a video that would pull together all the different toroids I'd worked on in the past year and throw a little bit of theory out there to unite them all together into a more cohesive whole. The basis of it is thinking about toroid shapes as products of tracing the path an observer makes through space as they walk around a sphere that is moving around another object, like a planet or moon. There's also a nifty new toroid shape that Dave Foregger and I worked on at Summer Wildfire that throws atomics into the mix in a whole other crazy way.

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techblog189.mp4