Category Archives: mathematics

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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gadgeteer at play

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 05 by Anton

Matthias Wandel’s insane constructions (link from AlterSlash). From the same site: some surprisingly effective mathematical drawings.

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where they stood

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 02 by Anton

Animation of Congress. For those three of you who haven’t seen it: Keith Poole‘s team at U.Houston tabulated the roll-call votes in Congress from 1879 to 1998 and did a factor analysis; the two dimensions shown in the animation are … Continue reading →

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