I made an interactive, animated Scratch project this week to display the symmetry in the melody of John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps.” Working through some of the activities in Berke’s book made think of the “Circle of Fifths” as a medium for transposing melodies to geometric, symmetrical patterns.
Beautiful 
Symmetry
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Realized I forgot to share-out our final group photo! Was a pleasure to beta-test with this AMAZING team 
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yikes! Blayne I just saw your note about this. We’ll try to tape these for future shipments. Thanks for the heads-up
I love the connection between the book and bringing it into something you can fabricate in your makerspace, Dave!
We have a paper version of the same idea, half gray cards on page 3 of this Google doc. Page 2 was something we imagined printing on acetate so you could overlay rotational images.
There aren’t cutlines but if you print the shaded diagonal page on cardstock and trim the page borders, you can cut from triangle tip to triangle tip.
Step 1: Print
Step 2: Trim
Step 3: Cut rows
Step 4: Cut into cards
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Ry, that’s awesome!
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That is so cool. I haven’t been able to jump on any of the calls but I’m planning a Zentangle Endless Card workshop with my kids next month and this reminds me of that. Now I want to try the flexagon because it’s extra sides!
Here’s an endless card tutorial.
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Acoustics in medicine to arrange heart cells, wow! Mind blown! This is just amazing!
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Ok that is way cool and I am going to have to dig into that on tinkercad. Thanks for the ideas 
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I hosted a Techy Mandala grab and go program for teens last month. They received a kit with various small computer parts (lots of keyboard pieces), some large paper (a few with radial lines for placement), glue, mandala coloring sheets, a booklist, and a handout (online resources about mandalas and symmetry). Oh and of course, the Beau Symm Zine!
Here is one a picture one of the participants shared back (14 yo):
And my practice one:
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Hello!
My co-worker, Judy Dobies, who attended the Beautiful Symmetry training and I presented a program based on your Beautiful Symmetry. We made 40 kits that contained materials and instructions to make a kaleidoscope, a 4-inch square mirror, clay, rubber stamps, some foam shapes, pages from a Mandala coloring book, and your PLIX symmetry Zine! We had 12 kids register for the Zoom portion of the program, but most of the kits were taken. When Judy and I evaluated the program, we decided that it would have been more fun to do as an in-person program. We are thinking to revisit this next year.
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I love this!! What a great idea.
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Those videos are really cool, thanks for sharing them! I like the idea of playing around in Soundtrap maybe to create some fun patterns, especially since I don’t have any formal music making skills
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