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The Dreamachine (a contraction of Dream Machine), invented in 1959 by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, is a stroboscopic flickering light art device that produces eidetic visual stimuli. Description [ edit ]
Dreamcatcher, Royal Ontario Museum An ornate, contemporary, nontraditional dreamcatcher. In some Native American and First Nations cultures, a dreamcatcher (Ojibwe: ᐊᓴᐱᑫᔒᓐᐦ, romanized: asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for 'spider') [1] is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web.
Spirograph is a geometric drawing device that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.The well-known toy version was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.
Martin Gardner included this fold, described as both a bug catcher and fortune-teller, in a column in Hugard's Magic Monthly, titled "Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic", in the 1950s. [22] Although the phrase "cootie catcher" has been used with other meanings in the U.S. for much longer, [ 23 ] the use of the phrase for paper cootie catchers in ...
We can establish, I suppose, that "dream catchers" were among the items associated with generic "Native American spirituality" by 1985. Interestingly, the term "dream catchers" in reference to people appears to be coined in 1978, in a poem "based on the lore of northwest coast and plateau Indians".
An underwater spiral box search is a search procedure conducted by a diver swimming around a starting point on a pattern based on compass directions and increasing distances. The pattern resembles an outward spiral with straight sides and equal distances between legs swum on the same bearing.
In the most humble surroundings, Project Pearls nourishes and supports the dreams of young children aspiring to break free from the cycle of poverty. 7 Marco & Ilyn Marco & Ilyn Swapping their sailboat for four wheels, Phil and Iva start traveling the island of Luzon by land. During an unexpected pitstop in a picturesque Spanish-style town ...
For <, spiral-ring pattern; =, regular spiral; >, loose spiral. R is the distance of spiral starting point (0, R) to the center. R is the distance of spiral starting point (0, R) to the center. The calculated x and y have to be rotated backward by ( − θ {\displaystyle -\theta } ) for plotting.