Author Archives: Anton

soap films in curved space

Posted on Monday, 2012 July 30 by Anton

A few of the many triply periodic minimal surfaces can be generated from a quadrilateral slice through a tetrahedron of mirrors, as refined by Surface Evolver. I had the idea that the same concept, applied to one of the analogous … Continue reading →

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passerby

Posted on Tuesday, 2012 July 17 by Anton

When I die, I’d prefer to slip away unnoticed. Ideally, let there be no record of the dates of my birth and death, only a floruit.

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divided by common letters

Posted on Tuesday, 2012 July 03 by Anton

I’ve been getting Russian spams in which some of the Cyrillic letters “Аа В Ее К М Н Оо Рр Сс Т у Хх” are replaced by the similar Latin letters “Aa B Ee K M H Oo Pp Cc … Continue reading →

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Zurker

Posted on Saturday, 2012 June 16 by Anton

What do you know, yet another social website.

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but wait there’s more

Posted on Thursday, 2012 June 14 by Anton

This one is a projection of a design on (half of) the surface of a hypersphere: a ribbon spans two orthogonal great circles, wrapping three times around one and five times around the other. Kitty teeth did break it at … Continue reading →

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Baby’s First Klein Bottle™

Posted on Thursday, 2012 June 14 by Anton

Not only did it not fall apart in my hands …

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first tangible result

Posted on Thursday, 2012 June 07 by Anton

The strand — for it is a Klein bottle woven of a single strand — is thinner than I expected, and has broken in at least two places. Ah well, live and learn; I’ve already redesigned it to be more … Continue reading →

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