Category Archives: mathematics

tantalizing

Posted on Saturday, 2002 November 16 by Anton

Jean-François Colonna makes elaborate and striking mathematical images. I only wish they had more annotation.

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if Deep Space Nine had been made in 1968

Posted on Friday, 2002 September 20 by Anton

Paper wormhole model by Hop David

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hard stars

Posted on Monday, 2002 September 09 by Anton

Vladimir Bulatov has made some awesome stellated polyhedra in wood. When I showed the small stellated dodecahedron to my housemate, she asked, “Did you make that in PoV-Ray?”

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Milton Mintz has struggled since 1963 to do the impossible: to trisect the angle, square the circle and double the cube using “only” a compass and straightedge. He shows procedures for the first two, which I have not attempted to … Continue reading →

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Take Phi

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 July 17 by Anton

I wonder whether it’s possible to write decent music with a fractional number of beats to a measure; by which I mean not that each measure should end with a fractional beat, but rather — imagine that a lunar month … Continue reading →

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a third eye may help

Posted on Saturday, 2002 July 13 by Anton

Java stereo hypercube. Now where did I hide those red/blue filters?

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Alan, meet John

Posted on Thursday, 2002 June 20 by Anton

Too cool! A Turing Machine in Conway’s Game Life, extendable to a Universal Turing Machine. Thanks to Andre Uratsuka Manoel for the link. (Link corrected 2004 Oct 6.) 2006: And the newer link is now dead. Never mind, just search … Continue reading →

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