Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Polysomatic Forms, Paul Schatz

The Invertible Cube
Through an artistic engagement with questions of space and the Zodiac discovered Paul Schatz 1929 Umstülpbarkeit the Platonic solids. In particular, worked out from these laws "Umstülpbare dice" and his very own rhythmic movement in the sequence basis, the entire ministry of Paul Schatz. order was a third cause of movement, the rhythmic and pulsating inversion (inversion) was found, and in addition to the two traditional basic movements, rotation (turn) and translation (rectilinear motion), set in place. It was found that this new movement makes numerous technical creations.


While studying the laws of inversion, Paul Schatz also discovered a large number of new and interesting solids created by the movements of the edges, corners, and diagonals of cubes. Paul Schatz called them time or polysomatic forms, as they render the movement of inversion visible in space. These forms - such as the inversion hall, the edge-cuboid, the pole-cuboid, or others - show some relation to living forms seen in nature. Time and again, Paul Schatz sought to apply these forms to architecture and his own architectonic designs.


New Scientist TV: Flying object propels itself by flipping inside out

Invented/discovered by Paul Schatz:
http://www.paul-schatz.ch/en/discoveries/

An Oloid




A rolling oloid on youtube

How to make an Oloid