NESTING
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Sliding these star-shaped concentric rings back and forth creates an illusion of depth.
Materials: laser-cut mat board, acetate, glue
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All of these frames were cut from a single piece of wood. They are similar, and logarithmically scaled. Their shape was designed to allow them to be combined to form a spiral tiling.
Material: laser-cut plywood
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In this stop-motion animation, the nested frames are rotated relative to each other, causing them to stack on top of each other.
Materials: laser-cut, laminated plywood.
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In this stop-motion animation, the nested frames are rotated by 137.5º (the golden angle) relative to each other, causing them to stack on top of each other.
Materials: laser-cut, laminated plywood.
Nesting Blocks
Like the A-series paper standard—in which all sheet sizes are similar, and each size is half the size of the next larger size— these block are all similar, and each block is half the size of the next larger block. In addition, each block fits exactly inside the larger (parent) block′s opening.