Sol Oh, Hyunsook Oh & Hongtaek Hwang*
Artists
Hong-taek Hwang
Artist, Emeritus Professor
Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Gumi, South Korea
Statement
It is well known that the truncated icosahedron is a geometric model of sphere and also it originated from the ancient greek's great philosopher Plato's cosmic imagination based on mathematics. The soccer ball "Telstar" and nano technology molecule model "Fullerene" are realities of it. For a given RPS, it is possible for us to image a creative pattern derived from sphere by applying the usual sphere formation scheme to the given RPS. Eventually, through a series of tube design experiments, we can establish a tube designed reality of this creative pattern image. We call this reality the Archimedean star with respect to the given RPS.
Artworks

Archimedean Dome CSH
15"x17"x17"
Geometric Tube Design
2012

Original Think Tank of Spherical Regular Triangle
10"x10"x10"
Geometric Tube Design
2011

Archimedean Horizontal Star at Introductive Level No. B-8
4"x4"x4"
Geometric Tube Design
2013