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Reading Room

Your book ↓
An imagined library observatory with a fire, books, living trees, a geometric mobile and a dome opening onto a starry forest sky.

The Reading Room

Stay awhile.

A book, a fire, a little room for thought.

Choose a book

Generated imagined architecture and atmospheric sky; not Ash’s home or a scientific sky chart.

Bring a book.

Select any catalogue entry to carry its title and record into the room.

Choose from the library ↗

A small cabinet of curiosities / 01

Order.
With a twist.

A single line winds through three dimensions and returns to where it began. Turn the view. The rule stays the same.

This study is drawn from the formula below. The room’s imagined sculpture is a separate artwork.

Look under the hood

For 0 ≤ t ≤ 2π:

x(t) = (2 + 0.65 cos 3t) cos 2t
y(t) = (2 + 0.65 cos 3t) sin 2t
z(t) = 0.65 sin 3t

The parameter t traces the line. The slider rotates our view; it does not change the curve. The visible line joins 361 calculated points.

A closed looping curve in three dimensions A projection of the curve defined by the adjacent formula. The camera begins at 25 degrees.

Static view at 25°. The drawing and formula work without JavaScript.