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The Hyperbottlic Plane and Bottlonic Solids
After talking to Nick Sayers and seeing his wonderful mathematical art made with found objects, I realized I needed to find something that could function as a giant bead. I immediately thought of Mario Marin's method of putting soda bottles together. I varied the method to leave a hole through the bottles, used some ribbon to thread them together, and voila:
The first photo shows the three platonic solids that have triangular faces, and the second photo is of a hyperbolic tiling that has seven triangles around every vertex. I plan eventually to put a webpage together with more details and instructions. Mostly I'm glad that I had a stockpile of empty bottles lying around!
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