a friend of mine,a retired teacher for maths and physic,developed making glass pictures as a hobby after his retirement.He accomplished exellent results with the old technique using lead strips and thick stained glass;the first was his wedding present to us after we realized that between my birthday and my wife´s is the same span of days as between his and his wife s,mine being in May,my wife´s in June , his wife´s in August and his in September. He passed away 4 years ago,his wife more than one year. Finaly I have found the time to arrange the pictures Ì inherited from him in the window of my "clock room" and I do love to look at them on a sunny summer evening like todays when the clocks turn around together with the "light-mills" before the geen background of our garden.All pics do have an allusion to some thing,obviously the first has as said;I invite You to speculate about the others. Enjoy! Burkhard Forgot:from left to right:Huber,Schatz spring 3rd wheel,KundO,SuP,Würthner moon,JUF lunar,KomA transparent,Hermle,Kaiser,Kern&Link for Kienzle.
Burkhard, I am attracted to the old 400 day clocks on multiple levels: they amaze me in their engineering of a time gone by, their aesthetics, and they serve a purpose. I think you can see the same in your friend's art anad as a testiment to your friendship.,
Very nice collection and display. Back in another lifetime, I also did stained glass. It takes its own special tools and place to do the work...much like working on clocks! Kurt
Thanks for sharing these. Your friend was fortunate for having known you, because in sharing these delightful works of art, I feel like you allow us to know something about him and in that way he kind of lives on.
thanks for all comments and remarks , realy appreciated! Anyone with more knowledge of maths can explain the second from left picture? It has a mathematical meaning,but I´ve never been good at that in school , and my friend didn´t have the time to explain to me.TIA Burkhard
an other friend of mine said the same when seeing it , I have to look it up allthough I doubt I understand it.Thanks for Your idea! Burkhard
The only thing I can think of is that the two red sections are equal area...by some mathematical theorem. KJurt
The Key to Newton's Dynamics And because Richard Feynman had such a great way of presenting these kinds of things" http://ceadserv1.nku.edu/longa/classes/calculus_resources/docs/kep.pdf
I guess I understood the article about Newton and Keppler -thanks for that!- but OMG I´ve looked up Fibonacci in Wikipedia ! That´s too high for me , so I´ll keep looking at the 1st left panel and adore without understanding .Thanks for any attempt to enlighten me! Best regards Burkhard
We use Fibonacci at work, sometimes to help prioritize work when there are a lot of stakeholders. Say, you have a list of five things to prioritize and ten folks "voting" on how to prioritize them. If you use an ordinal numbered approach where everyone can assign a number from one to five to each item and then sum all of the points assigned to each item, it can be hard, sometimes, to determine a clear order, based on everyone's preferences. If the numbers you allow them to assign are based on the Fibonacci sequence (1, 2, 3, 5 and 8, in this case), the list broadens and clear winners and losers start to appear.
