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Paul Trachtman
Editor-at-large, Smithsonian
"Ron Resch belongs to that small band of visionaries whose thought and work have expanded human consciousness. Ever since, as a graduate student, he crumpled up a scrap of paper and retrieved it from the trash to examine its pattern of folds, he has been exploring space through the lens of geometry. That crumpled ball of paper became a sort of Hubble telescope through which Resch began to see and construct new dimensions in space. His work with polygons has produced unexpected results in science, engineering and art.
As a pioneer in the field of computer graphics, he has worked on a frontier where inventions in digital space can open up new ways of understanding the nature of the physical world, and engaging with it. Indeed, one might think of Resch as a digital meditator in the tradition of those ancient yogis who once entered the darkest caves of the mind in search of reality.
There is much of Resch's work that has yet to be fully grasped and appreciated. It is as if his polygonal, multi-dimensional networks are the answers to questions we have not yet thought of, or learned how to ask."
Editor-at-large, Smithsonian