Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988)
Jean Bondol and Nicholas Bataille, La Bête de la Mer (from the Tapisserie de l'Apocalypse in Angers, France), 1377–1382.
Unfolding of Spherical Surfaces. Make paper sphere models with approximate patterns.
This patterns are really wonderful. Because, determining how to unfold a polyhedron or a sphere into a net is tricky.
For example, determining how to unfold a polyhedron, cuts cannot be made along all edges that surround a face or the face will completely separate. Furthermore, for a polyhedron with no coplanar faces, at least one edge cut must be made from each vertex or else the polyhedron will not flatten. In fact, the edges that must be cut corresponds to a special kind of graph called a spanning tree of the skeleton of the polyhedron (Malkevitch). Source.See more: Unfolding at Mathworld.wolfram.com & Dymaxion Map on Wikipedia.
Image: Catalouge by David Swart (Full Size) & Unfolding a 3D sphere to 2D shapes.
I’ve heard of cross spheres. I sure wouldn’t want to run into one in a dark alley.
