DO-DECA Hedron

yea.. i know..
the name seems to be funny :P

bt there is a nomenclature behind it !

let me explain..

DO -- two

DECA -- ten

so do-deca mean 10+2 = 12 sided figure

HEDRON means a 3 - D model made up of many polygons... k

polygons means a 2-D plane figure like a pentagon..


well this is the thing...

made of 12 pentagons..

bound at a cretain solid angle



this model came abt jus as perfect as i hoped.. i was happy wit the result...
its called DO DECA HEDRON..

if u wanna try out..

'm here to help u out :)

A Life Dedicated...

these words come deeply from my self....

i know hw it feels like dedicating oneself to something... i've been in touch wit many ppl who have done so... and 'm also in process of doing vaguely something similar...

i wonder... wat it takes for such ppl to take such a BIG decision on their side...
its not very often that u find a person seeing all tat is there around him... al the influences,, environment.. positive or negetive... get this feeling...

i said i'm in process of doing something similar....

its really very strange/not - normal .. i guess , from an outsider perspective that one person doesn care to ENJOY his life like its just one! and nothing after that.. but struggle hard , be an something different from the others in general...


they might ask ... why is he doing this...? wat for?? is it called for?? why this?? why him...? what a waste.....

but, from a personnel experiance.. i'd like to share some of the things which might be going in mind of a person whom we are talking abt..

ofcurse.. none are the same...

everybody are unique in there own way...

i remember my teacher in highskool told me casually...

Uniquness is not Unique at all.

but anyways.. we will by grossly come to a conclusion tat there are certain CATEGORIES of ppl.. this is wit no dsrespect to indivisuality...

well continuing...

i guess there are phases in dedicating oneself for a purpose...

i'll tell first itself tat its jus my opinion on date.. it might change subsequently.. as and when i realise higher truths...

k.. getting back..

i was tellin abt d phases rite...

1> there is something called SAMSKAR in the person...
--- he is brought up in an environment.. it bears a high degree of influence on the person's thinking ability, point of view...

2> he finds something is not right somewhere....
--- he tries to search for wat is not rite...
--- then he searches for wat is d cause for it...

this may take a lot of time...

for if he has to be sure... and it might so happen tat he realises higher truths during course of time....

but he constantly wants update himself abt wat was wrong and wat is the cause of it..

3> now, that he has an idea of wat d cause is... he starts to think!!
-- this is a very deeply intuitive in most cases... (i guess)
-- he is very much concerned abt the prob now...
--- he is constantly thinking of it...
weather he is listning to a song or talking to a frnd or riting his assignment..

there are very few things which have higher priority than it...
he wud be so much in2 it tat he does not CARE abt anything else... i mean to say.. IT MAKES VERY LIL DIFF TO HIM

4> this is the stage where he takes his pledge..


-- he wud dedicate his life to it...
it doen mean tat he won do any other work ...
but his primary interest lies in solving the prob, and make the world bettr thru solving that prob...

few times...
if he has to chose btw frnds family or work..

he wud choose work unless there is real situation!

he doesn care wat others think of him,,, this i guess is a very bold move he takes...
he ceases from or tries to cease from attachment.. his goal is to solve the prob.. he wud do anything for it...

i assure u that there are really very few, who have reached this stage wanting something back from his work...

they don want fame, name any any worldly things... for them tat is not the prority...

and further i would stick my neck out and say 1 more thing...

the ppl who do follow this path, with /without notice are following wat is called "karma yoga"

it says tat u do work... for works sake..
and after ur work is done, surrender it to god and forget abt it.. in d sence, results

and there is one more suggestion.. tat its not the KARTARA-- doer who is important..

but the KARYA-- work is!!

so one has no room for EGO here...

its not he who is noticed by all.. it is the work...

this inherantly makes his ego to dissapear and he has no worries at all,,, he just concentrates on his work...

Carbon 60 Fullerene-- Football

Hey!! this model i made 2-3 years back ... had made similar models before...

this is technically called as a Fullerene!

u guys know wat a Fullerene is right?? well, if u dont .. no big deal..
click on this link.. u'll know watever there is to know about a Fullerene


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene


In Laymen terms... it is a spatial arrangement of CArbon Atoms...


there are two Fullerenes 'm aware of..

1> CArbon 60 -- Football
2> CArbon 70 -- Rugby Ball

yes! carbon 60 is nothing but a FOOTBALL!




so now, i guess u'll be able to see that carbon 60 thing is same as our futball... :)


k now.. i'll show u d model i made..

i colour coded it .. pentagons(5 sided figures) in yellow

and hexagons(6 sided figures) in some orange kind of colour...

1 thing which u wont be able to see is that on d top i've made a hole.. to acomadate a small bulb...


if u would switch it on, only the pentagons are highlighted!
i mean i'd used a thinner card board for pentagon and thick one for hexagon.. got it?

anyways for info,

football = 20 haxagons + 12 pentagons

all the sides of a pentagon are inturn attached to 5 other hexagons

and for a hexagons, alternative sides are attached to a hexagon and a pentagon...

if u wanna try it out nd need some help..

'm always a click away...

wish to here frm u ppl..
cya

Origamy

this is again something which 'm very passionate abt...


for those who are wondering wat 'm talking abt...
i'll tell u wat this origamy is...

this is supposed to be ART ... from card board/paper

its origin is frm japan i guess... may be china.. i donno

anyways.. i like it!


it was dec 24th christmas eve, tat eve in planitarium there was a demo class of Origamy aking place...

frm our coll, many 10th std students took part...

i was in 9th ... by some way, i convinced my vice principal tat i also wud acompany them .... well, i did..

frm tat day, started a remarkable journey in to the world or car board..

i've thoroughly enjoyed the experiance...

learned many a lessons frm it....

made PROPER GEOMETRIC MODELS on demand for my school, PU College, and even Engineering College!

i've not taken pics of many of my models...

and also they are not with me...

many are with the respective institutions.. few with my friends(whom i gifted to... )
hope they take deserved care.... and rest of them either worn out or stepped upon or... many ways to loose it.. hehe

PS: Origamy is a BIG branch concerned with card board art...

'm only into a part where u develop POLYHEDRONS from card board..
this requires knowledge of geometry... angles, no.. of sides, metrics.. etc

i'll upload few pics and explain as to how it is done...

Begining Of Change...

When I was in 9th Std, In many ways Rennaisance of Myself took place...

I was doing many things, I experimented with stuff...

i many a times put myself in ackward positions.. not bothering how it would affect me...


i used to ask many a doubts in class... not tat it was NOT-NORMAL , but the FEELING of ENQUIRY was very EVIDENT !

i began doing some scientific experiments... i genuinely tried to DISCOVER something...

i used to play wit MAgnets, electricity, wires .. well wat ever i could get my hands to.. hehe


My father used to remind me that i was still a student, not JUST a SCIENTIST, and the scientist {and othr extra curicular works} should happen after i've done with studies for the day...
But most of the time, i was other way around...

My arguement was that in 9th std, the final score doesn matter much, it doesn matter if i scored 80 % or 85% it both would mean the same thing, this year let me concentrate on the other funky stuff..
and 10th ,i'll defenitely STUDY ,FULL TIME...

it was an arguement he din accept straight away, i guess he hesitantly made himself to agree.. otherwise he wouldn allow me to do wat ever i did do! for my APPA(father) is a tuf task master.. he makes sure he gets d best out of me... i'm having very high regards on him in more ways than 1 .

i went to Planitarium Classes every sunday, i din understand much of wat was done, but still few % did filter in2 my porous brain :P

though setu(my friend) knows the actual truth wat happend ,i'll stick my neck out and say tat i won "young inventer" prize.. many of us did... basically for innovation in science

i'd done some work on "contact force in magnetism" .. later on i found tat tat work was already been done by some guy way before itself :D

anyways.. nice attempt huh ?? :)

i hope my classmates remember about it, no regrets even if they doont... i fought my way thru to get a hands on experiance in a Field trip arranged by my school,

it was in GML - GEOLOGICAL AND METALURGICAL LAB ...

a pool of hand picked students were given a chance to actually go to GML in class hours and get to know hw the metalurgical tests work!!

we also did them ourselves,,,

we demonstrated it to our other classmates as well


I should Thank my School Authorities and foremost Dr Raghavendra, GML better known as Ananya Raghavendra to have humbly given us a chance to see and experiance the lab environment!!


its VERY RARE to get such chances...

then, i tot .. well worth a fight ,tat oppurtunity!! hehe

i also formulated few theorems on Triangles...

it were all correct but i guess, like before pre done...

I did many othr things when i was in 9th...

all in all..

it is one of the turning points of my life where i gt this hunger to learn outside wat is there in text book... hunger to rise above and succed... hunger tat would grow and grow...

and be wat it is.. now.. still growing never ceasing to stop...

i only hope, i can acomplish wat ever i've set out to...

stepping over ego..