John Pickering's Sculptures

John Pickering is a british sculptor who used the geometric principle of inversion since the 1970s. A book about his great work is published by the AA: Mathematical form: John Pickering and the architecture of the inversion

Kusner Minimal Surface

Discovered by Rob Kusner, Director of the Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics (GANG). The Kusner surface is an inversion of the Boy surface. The three discs are planes "reaching infinity".

Mesh Inversion

"Inverse Dude" modeled by Delaque

MeshInversion.zip

Strips & Rivets

A sculpture of the Boy Surface at Oberwolfach
Rivets generated from points on surface (grasshopper)
Strips generated from curves on surface (rhinoscript)

StripsAndRivets.zip

Surface Inversion

For a given sphere with center O and radius k,
inversion maps every point P of a surface on a point P'
More about inversion with rhino on Daniel Piker's blog

SurfaceInversion.zip