Category Archives: technology

nobody here but us snub tilings

Posted on Saturday, 2002 February 16 by Anton

I went looking for snub tilings and found a number of dummy pages generated by blackflag: “CGI script that generates self-referencing web pages full of fake email addresses, used to thwart email-extracting web bots”

Posted in neep-neep | Leave a comment

soap films

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 10 by Anton

I’ve begun to learn to use Ken Brakke’s Surface Evolver. Haven’t yet found whether it has the one feature that would make it ideal for my exploration of nonspherical ‘dome’ forms: ability to constrain the edges to equal length. The … Continue reading →

Posted in eye-candy, mathematics, neep-neep | Leave a comment

bugs in spaaace!

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 07 by Anton

This article (found at SciTech Daily) tells about tiny autonomous fliers proposed for Mars. Bees may also provide a solution for navigating on Mars, where there is no GPS network or magnetic field to tell one pole from another. Bees … Continue reading →

Posted in futures, technology | Leave a comment