<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f4588203-a0c0-43da-820d-411ed2e13d2c/38BF0E80-7FA5-478E-A19E-44F0B658BC82/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencenews.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><P>Artist and physicist <A href="http://bulatov.org" target="_blank">Vladimir Bulatov</A> builds his artwork like a mathematical proof. He began his <EM>Rhombic Dodecahedron I</EM> by pondering a funny, irregular looking polyhedron built out of 12 diamond shapes called rhombuses. Bulatov imagined replacing each rhombic face with a sort of four-armed starfish. Instead of connecting the arms directly to those of the closest starfish, he used the symmetries of the polyhedron to interlace the arms, forming an intricate knot.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sciencenews.org/img/40C3D430-BA7F-4C50-A558-3C5D3274E2D2" alt="access" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40017/title/When_art_and_math_collide"><DIV class="inset_text print"><DIV class="embiggen"><A href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/id/40022/title/mtrek_bulatov.jpg">Enlarge</A><IMG src="http://www.sciencenews.org/includes/com.confluentforms.codefluent.php/images/icons/grayscale-small/magnify.gif" class="icon" alt="magnify" /></DIV><SPAN class="print">RHOMBIC DODECAHEDRON I:</SPAN><SPAN class="description print">Vladimir Bulatov took inspiration for this sculpture from an unusual polyhedron.</SPAN><SPAN class="credit print">Vladimir Bulatov </SPAN></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/38BF0E80-7FA5-478E-A19E-44F0B658BC82/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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