The Chestahedron is the first heptahedron of this configuration in the history of geometry. This sculpture has 7 surfaces (consisting of 4 triangles and 3 quadrilaterals), 7 points and 12 edges. If this heptahedron is rotated around the vertical axis, it forms a bell-like external surface of a certain profile: a cone at the top connected to a hyperbolic at the bottom. Other type heptahedra, or less-faced polyhedra do not provide a bell-type figure. For this reason it is supposed that the Chestahedron in rotation is the first geometrical bell shape form ever found and therefore it is the first time the mystery behind the geometry of the bell has been solved in the history of bell making. It has been found in years of research that this geometry is the basis of the left ventricle of the human heart. The midway point between the idea of the human heart and the manifestation of the human heart. Naming the Chestahedron came from the heart being the dominant organ in the chest."Frank’s approach to studying Platonic solids was not transforming them externally by contraction but internally by expansion. Platonic forms were never solid to Frank, but open and hollow. Placing a small Tetrahedron inside a larger Tetrahedron, twice its size, and moving the smaller form produces the Chestahedron, something of which the world has never seen before in the long history of form studies. Surprisingly, the Chestahedron can show an internal transformation moving in two opposite directions at the same time....Frank was able not only to discover the Chestahedron and myriad related forms, but has been able to slowly uncover their significance, bringing to the world an extension and furtherance of principles of sacred geometry and the mysterious relationship between form and spirit."
About
Frank is an artist, sculptor and geometrician based in San Francisco. He has taught art for more than thirty years in high schools and colleges. Since encountering the work of Rudolf Steiner, Frank has been exploring the relation between form and spirit. This site is a space to share his research with the public. See also his medically-oriented site: Heartistic Science.
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this is fascinating,
interesting part is that when learning how to draw a human, its all starts with drawing geometrical forms as a whole, now to see that our heart has a perfect shape - only deepens and expends our perceptions, probably the rest of our organs also have a geometrical form as well.
Thanks Sylvain ;))