If you noticed the 6 shapes we like to use on our page, you may have wondered, “hey, what’s the deal with those shapes?”. The shapes (sans the sphere) are known as platonic solids. Not because they have a loosly defined friedship but because the philosopher Plato loved these shapes like I love beer. He figured that the shapes were the basic building blocks of reality. He may have been more correct than modern science is telling us…
If you look at a vibration (a musical note/frequency) in three dimentions it is going to be some sort of 3-d shape. The higher the frequency the more complex the shape. Check out the work of Dr. Hans Jenny for more on this topic , Cymatics. Our shapes represent an ocatve of “densities” based somewhat on Hindu mysticism and some scientific work. Plus they look cool.

As our good friend Pythagoras said, “Geometry is frozen music.”

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