Saturday 6 July 2024

The Seed

The Eden Project in Cornwall, England is an awesome experience that I’ve visited three times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Project

Located in the central atrium of the Core building at the Eden Project, the Seed is an egg-shaped granite sculpture by Peter Randall-Page. It is four meters tall and weighs 70 tons. Due to its size and complexity, the sculpture took four years to complete. (It took me four days to figure out how to model the bumps.)  The arrangement of the bumps on the surface of the sculpture is based on the Fibonacci spiral, a geometric form often found in nature, e.g., the seeds in the sunflower blossom. In this model there are 2,952 bumps.

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