Turning your world inside out

I have written a program for Rhino which performs the mathematical transformation of ‘inversion with respect to a sphere’. This transformation has many beautiful properties and reveals some surprising symmetries. It also relates in a deep and beautiful way to Einstein’s theory of Relativity.

 

View from the Vanishing Point

Have you ever wondered why perspective drawing using vanishing points works ?

What are these mysterious points that all lines point towards ?, Where are they ?

Well I can do better than just tell you where they are – I can show you what it looks like from there !