Design Thinking

Have we lost the value of design...

Having seen lots of cool gadgets and software being designed and marketted... I almost admitted to the fact that Design is no longer about the Brooklyn Bridge. and it is more and more about making this uber cool iWhatever.

Well actually... here is a TED talk from Tim Brown CEO if IDEO who thinks that it is getting better.
And I agree. At least such a TED talk has happened.
16 min of a pondering thought.

Spirograph

This is one of the most interesting aspect of geometry. Intriguing? Mathematical? Anyways... this is something to think and know about.

This is the definition as it can be found here: http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html

A Spirograph is a curve formed by rolling a circle inside or outside of another circle. The pen is placed at any point on the rolling circle. If the radius of fixed circle is R, the radius of moving circle is r, and the offset of the pen point in the moving circle is O, then the equations of the resulting curve is defined by:

x = (R+r)*cos(t) - O*cos(((R+r)/r)*t)
y = (R+r)*sin(t) - O*sin(((R+r)/r)*t)
(moving circle outside the fixed circle)

x = (R-r)*cos(t) + O*cos(((R-r)/r)*t)
y = (R-r)*sin(t) - O*sin(((R-r)/r)*t)
(moving circle inside the fixed circle)



Experiment and Explore with the applet here:
Courtesy: wordsmith.org
http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html
Created by Anu Garg.