Category Archives: mathematics

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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D120

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

Thirty fair dice (rotating in Java; still GIF) most of which you won’t find at your game supply store. It’s misleading to imply that there are exactly thirty. Several of the figures are special (more regular) cases of others shown; … Continue reading →

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stupid computers

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 29 by Anton

Save me from software that tries to outsmart me!

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a great icosahedron

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 26 by Anton

. . made in PoV-Ray using a couple of beta features. I took the liberty of naming the pigment “Tufte” : it uses unsaturated colors to represent angles in a natural way.

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I always wanted one

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 12 by Anton

A Webwide World by Ken Perlin, NYU, 1998 – Java applet that rapidly generates a fractal planet. Unlike the Planet of the Day generated by ppmforge, Perlin’s planet is three-dimensional and can be rotated.

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nerds mourn

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 10 by Anton

The sequels to The Matrix are not The Transpose and The Eigenvector but Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions.

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