SPINS, JUMPS & OLYMPICS GEOMETRY

Geometry is inherent in sports. Angles, edges, volume, curves, height -- it all matters. Geometry is beautiful to watch play out. Now, with the Winter Olympics underway, we are loving the geometry of ski jumps, snowboard air, ice skating spins and the like.

Today, we’re checking out the beautiful geometry of the dazzling new Blue Iceberg and all of the triple axels, arabesques, cantelevers, butterfly jumps, lutzes, and all the spins: Beillmann, camel, back, lay, etc., that are happening inside.

 

Check out these figure skating beauties as they rock their Beautiful Geometry.

 

 

For a great primer on the geometry and physics of Winter Olympic  sports, check out Mathspig. It’s really cool!

Read more about Beautiful Geometry, it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including New Visions for the Love of Shapes, Geometry -- Source of All Beauty?, Exquisite Edible Beauty, Art Takes New Shapes and New Geometry Finds Now in our posts throughout this week.

Enter this week’s BN Competition. Our theme this week is Beautiful Geometry. Send in your images and ideas. Deadline is 02.09.14.

Photo Credits:

 

1) Photo: Courtesy of Atos International. Blue Iceberg.

2) Photo: Caroline Pare. Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelde.

3) Photo: Courtesy of Queen Yuna. Yu-na Kim.

4) Photo: Courtesy of Queen Yuna. Yu-na Kim.

5) Photo: Luu. Maxim Trankov and Tatiana Volosozhar.

6) Photo: Courtesy of Queen Yuna. Yu-na Kim.

7) Photo: Gerry Hawkins. Vaughn Chipeur.

8) Photo: Courtesy of Queen Yuna. Sasha Cohen.

9) Photo: Courtesy of Queen Yuna. Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.

10) Photo: Courtesy of Queen Yuna. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

11) Photo: Courtesy of Gaestehaus Dodel. Figure skating.

12) Photo: Courtesy of Atos International. The Blue Iceberg.