Logosdor has an unusual shape.
We are small, yet we serve work amongst children and families everywhere. We produce huge amounts of creative work, yet we give it all away. We equip families and leaders across the globe, yet we have one small office. We have lots of creative and innovative ideas, yet we thrive in helping others get their ideas off the ground.
We harness all these things, believing that at the heart of everything is a loving and creative God — and the only way to be reconciled with God is through Jesus.
You can get a grasp of Logosdor through 6 shapes … 5 circles and a new, unusual and slightly weird shape, that was only discovered last year!
See this video to understand Logosdor’s 5 dots. Read below, to find out about this new shape.
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Now to explain the relevance of an entirely new shape!
The Einstein Problem
For a long time, mathematicians wondered if a single tile shape could cover a flat surface forever, but never in a repeating pattern (aperiodic). Some shapes can fit together and repeat patterns at regular intervals (periodic tessellation). This challenge of finding a single shape that fits together but never in a repeat pattern is called the Einstein Problem.
In 2023, the answer began to emerge with the discovery of the hat tile. It was discovered by David Smith a retired printing technician from East Yorkshire, England. He partnered with mathematicians Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss to announce this discovery in March 2023.
This oddly shaped piece, with a diagonal indentation like a hat brim, could indeed tile the plane aperiodically, but only if you used both left-facing and right-facing "hats" (reflections of each other).
They then discovered the turtle tile. The turtle is essentially a modified version of the hat, where the diagonal cut goes all the way through, creating two separate pieces that interlock like puzzle pieces.
This continued the challenge: could one tile achieve aperiodicity without needing reflections?
They discovered, just a month later, a new shape — which they called the spectre — a curvy-edged relative of the hat and turtle. The key difference? These curvy shapes come in a "handed" version, like left and right shoes. This handedness forces the tiles to arrange in a way that can never repeat. So, the spectre shape finally achieved the dream of a single tile — tiling the plane forever, without ever settling into a predictable pattern.
It is an asymmetrical, non-repeating, single tile shape. The technical term is a chiral aperiodic mono-tile. This new shape is an amazing discovery, solving years of mathematical questioning.
This one single shape never changes, yet every time you put it together as if in a puzzle, the piece always goes down differently. It is always connecting in a new way.
Always the same and yet always different!
This is a curious and interesting idea!
Creativity
As we saw the shape it gave us an intriguing visual metaphor of God’s love for people.
The Bible says that God never changes, and yet His love is fresh and new every morning.
What a wonderful thought to ponder.
It then allows us to spark our creativity, from the one true God who is ever-creative, fresh and new each morning.
We believe humans are creative, because we are made by a Creator and are loved by a creative God. The Bible says we are made in His image. Our brains are wired to be creative in ways that no other creature is able to be.
We seek to be creative in everything we do, and the Bible is our incredible living source of inspiration. From start to finish it describes God’s creative acts. God created at the start, but then is constantly in the process of re-creation, reconciliation, forgiveness and restoration. These are all creative acts. Ways that a new future, a new pathway, a new possibility for someone is created.
When you place this new aperiodic shape together with identical shapes, it is never fitted into the others in a repeating pattern. It never goes down the same way.
It is always the same shape, but it never interacts the same way.
God is the same yesterday, today and forever, but His love is new every morning.
Lamentations 3:22-23 says:
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness. (ESV)
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness. (NIV)
For His compassions do not fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness. (NASB)
God’s love is new every morning. The word for love in this verse is a Hebrew word, hesed (חסד). It is a bit like the Greek word agape. English needs many words to explain it! This verse highlights the everlasting, unconditional, unceasing, extravagant, extraordinary, love of God that is new every day!
What fuels Logosdor’s passion for creativity and for Jesus?
The knowledge that every day, in every place, in every circumstance, in every joy and every sorrow, God’s love is there and it is fresh and new. And we want to pass it on!
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