A Gift for PZ

While I was away on vacation, my family made a stop in Corning NY to see the Corning Glass Museum. I had to snap this photo for PZ. Alas, all I had was the camera in my cellphone, so the resolution leaves something to be desired, but it's the thought that counts, right?

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As long as I'm posting pictures, I'll also include an image of my favorite piece in the museum. The picture doesn't do it justice, but it's the best I have.

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Is your favorite thing just a plastic sphere, or is it supposed to be something else, say the 3-D projection of a regular polychoron?

Alon:

It's not plastic, it's glass. Entirely hand-made out of a single stretched strand of glass, elaborately twisted into a fractal pattern that created the sphere. When you look at it up close, the pattern of the glass strand is semi-regular, but you would not expect it to form a sphere. (It's not started in the center and then built outward in layers; it's totally tangled.)

Neat! I love uncolored glass, art or beautiful kitchenware alike.

So perhaps I'm perverse.

By Torbjörn Larsson (not verified) on 02 Sep 2006 #permalink

CMOG is terrific! It's like three museums in one: art, history and education.

By ivy privy (not verified) on 04 Sep 2006 #permalink

>CMOG is terrific! It's like three museums in one

even better, i was born right across the street. all hail Corning, the birthplace of cleek.