The spidron dates back to 1979, when in Ernő Rubik's modelling class at the Hungarian University of Applied Art, I created my first moving relief. He reacted with these words: "I never saw anything like this!" This comment gave me the push that made me take out this folding from time-to-time and think about its geometry more deeply. Ten years later I managed to create a closed, spacial shell construction from one of the parts, the six armed spidronnest. In 1994 I met Dr. Cristiana Grigorescu romanian optical crystalphysicist who tried to convince me to present my ideas at the 12th World Conference on Crystal Growth in Jerusalem. I had more than four years to prepare, still it was a huge task to learn the scientific language and to present it in front of an audience made up of scientists, all this in English. But thanks to the help and support of some of my acquaintances I could manage. With the co-operation of my friend, Péter Kőszegi, images and animations were made that made the presentation more successful. After that I had an easier time at home, because I was constantly invited to present. The most important presentations were at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' division in Szeged and at the Mathematical Research Institute (today it's called Rényi Institute). In 2000 there was an exhbition held at the Műcsarnok which raised lots of interest. The exhibition was organized with László Beke's initiation by scientist, artists and inventors. Here the spidron took part as a spacefilling system. After that, except for a few scientific news, the interest in spidrons faded, but this was only the silence before the storm. In 2000 intrest sky-rocketed. Dr. Lajos Szilassi's work brought the breakthrough, which defined the movement of the spidron mathematically. Below you can read about the events concerning the spidron from 2003 to 2006.

16-22 August 2003
Symmetry Festival and Ars
(Dis)Symmetrica
Hotel Agro, Budapest
Presentation, exhibition and an article in the festival's official issue: Spidron System

http://www.conferences.hu/symmetry2003/festival-Pre.html
http://www.matud.iif.hu/04jan/013.html

After the presentation I met Prof. Dr. Emil Molnár of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, who advised me to write a PhD on spidrons. He offered me his co-operation in my works.

Since then I have attended Emil Molnár's class at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He mostly teaches me crystal and standard geometry.

I started my studies at the Pécs University of Sciences' Modernitas PhD program in 2004, where I want to process the history of the Spidron with the title "The fate of the new".
My artistic tutor is Dr. László Beke. Program director: Dr. Péter Niedermüller.

21 January 2004
I got to know Rinus Roelofs on the internet through a portal of the Rhinoceros 3D modelling program and we made good friends. We exchanged thousand of e-mails and together created hundreds of spidron models. Half year later we met personally, when he visited me in Budapest.

http://www.rinusroelofs.nl/pr-spidron/spidron-00.html

21-22 May 2004
Sprout-Selecting Conference
PTE University of Sciences, Pécs, Mihály Pollack Faculty of Engineering, presentation of the geometry of spidrons with Dr. Lajos Szilassi. There was also a book published on the event. In this book, the mathematical definition of the movement of the spidron was first made public by Lajos Szilassi.

http://matserv.pmmf.hu/hajtas/

Director: Dr. Csaba Sárvári

http://www.arsetmathesis.nl/

The foundation released a four piece postcard series for the meeting. Co-creator Rinus Roelofs is a Dutch artist. I presented the manifolded foldable spidroncube for the first time at the gathering.

23 February 2005
Spidron geometry
Demonstrative teaching at the Lauder School

10 March 2005
SuliNova

Presenting the spidrons for the SuliNova educational development program at the Faculty of Mathematics, ELTE - Lránd Eötvös University of Sciences

Participants of the meeting: Dr. Katalin Fried, Gusztáv Bognár, Balázs Földvári, Sándor Kabai, István Lénárt, Ervin Miklós, József Krotos, Gergely Máté, Jakab Erdély, Janka Erdély, István Sági, Regina Márkus, and Erdély Dániel.

31 June - 3 August 2005
Bridges
Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
I recieved an invitation to participate in the conference. I made many friends there, two of whom I have collaborated with since then: Marc Pelletier and Amina Allen.

8 August 2005
The first big spidron painting
that we created with Jon Higli with acrylic on canvas.

http://www.szinhaz.hu/edan/SpidronWorkBook/

The 16 page workbook's foreword was written by Dr. László Beke, director, MTA Research Institue of Art History. We created the illustrations with Rinus Roelofs.

http://www.sulinet.hu/tart/fcikk/Kcs/0/28595/1

The conference was sponsored by VTAMK

2 December 2005 - 3 January 2006
Spidron
Exhibition at the Péter Vályi Training School, Tamási

http://valyip-tamasi.uw.hu/e107_plugins/coppermine_menu/thumbnails.php?album=11

Opening speech by Zsuzsa Dárdai art critic

16 December 2005
Spidronplastics
Budapest, A 4.5-meter span spidron plastic hangs in the aula of the House of the Future at the Millenary Park.

http://www.szinhaz.hu/edan/Millenaris/

Architect: István Tenke. Master Carpenter: István Sági.

http://www.kfki.hu/~/cheminfo/TermVil/szamok/tv2006/tv0606/g4.html

I would like to mention a few of the scientists present: Roger Penrose, John Conway, Ron Resch, George Hart and Raymond M. Smullyan. Lennart Green, card genious, had the biggest success from among the magicians.

An issue connected to the meeting will be published in the near future.

4 May 2006
Spidron
Exhibiton at the Bárka Theatre
For my 50th birthday the Bárka Theatre held the Spidron titled exhibition, which was preceded by a play Mrozek, titled The Party. After the presentation came the friendly get-together.

http://www.gyoriszalon.hu/hetnap/index.php?t=MADI3.html

The program was organized by the Moscow Hungarian Cultural Center and the MADI Foundation.

http://www.szinhaz.hu/edan/rehab/

Interior architect: István Szenes, Master Carpenter: István Sági.

http://mtv.hu/cikk.php?id=73882

Host: Balázs Gaskó