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My neighbor's son
Topic Started: Jan 13 2011, 07:24 AM (431 Views)
George K
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John's mom lives down the hall from us. She and the Mrs. are good friends.

http://www.jvmuntean.com/

A scientist and sculptor uses a physics phenomenon to create hand-carved wooden blocks that appear abstract but cast three different shadows. The skewered blocks resemble abstract wooden puzzles, but when they are rotated on their steel rods, three different recognizable images appear.

"They are abstract in 3D and representational in two dimensions," says John Muntean, who works at Argonne National Labs as a nuclear magnetic resonance spectographer .

Muntean displayed his hand-carved wooden creations at the Merchandise Mart's One of A Kind art show and sale in December. Shadow images included three sequential images of a horse jumping a gate, a progression from ape to homo habilis to running-Yuppie-with-briefcase, a DaVinci sequence which morphs from Vitruvian man to the Mona Lisa, to a "Leonardo" signature, and many three-animal combinations.

Muntean uses a physics phenomenon called the "magic angle" to create the illusion. The concept was given a name in the 1960s, but Muntean suspects Greek mathematicians knew about it.

Technically, it's complicated - "the inverse-cosign of 1 over the square-root of 3," explains Muntean - but it's really just 54.44 degrees. When a cube is rotated at the "magic angle," the three-dimensional coordinates x, y and z will interchange: right and left, up and down change places.
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I'll share this with daughter later today. She'll get a kick out of it, too. Thanks!
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Wow. What a mind.
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Neat.
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Mark
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So cool!
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Wow, those are neat.

I wonder if he's using a laser cutter to carve those to acheive the desired precision of image?

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George K
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Jan 13 2011, 08:04 AM
Wow, those are neat.

I wonder if he's using a laser cutter to carve those to acheive the desired precision of image?
That's what I thought, but...

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Once he's got the right shapes, Muntean selects a chunk of wood, such as a log of Patagonian cherry. First, he bores a hole at 54.44 degrees to be the axis for a one-eighth-inch steel rod. Then he begins to cut, first with an Italian five-horsepower bandsaw. Hand finishing is completed with traditional woodworking tools. Muntean waxes rhapsodic about his "hand-stitched French rasps for really detailed cutting - which are works of art in themselves."

The next time I see him I'll have to ask how he gets such precise cuts.

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http://www.rblandmark.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=6978&TM=37133.89

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George K
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John's wife is pretty talented too:

http://cso.org/About/Performers/Performer.aspx?id=4999

Can you imagine what it's like in their house?
Edited by George K, Jan 13 2011, 08:08 AM.
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George K
Jan 13 2011, 08:07 AM

Can you imagine what it's like in their house?

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omygosh.. those are wonderful. mr. apple will love them. wish i had a 1000 bucks. I love the website too... so well down.
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Very cool!!!
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Very cool.

I can do a barking dog, and a flying bird, and quacking duck with hand shadows.
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