Category Archives: mathematics

16 million colors

Posted on Thursday, 2007 July 05 by Anton

Nearly eight hours in the making, here it is: all the 24-bit colors in a tasteful, tilable fractal arrangement — 16million.png.gz (1 megabyte). And since Mads asked for it, the Python sourcecode: two files. Another way to flatten the color … Continue reading →

Posted in eye-candy, mathematics | 1 Comment

Takana

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 17 by Anton

I had the idea to design a fantasy script from combinations of a small repertoire of features: namely, subsets of this set of twelve segments. Using a fixed number of segments gives some built-in error-detection. There are 924 subsets of … Continue reading →

Posted in language, mathematics | 9 Comments

four million colors

Posted on Sunday, 2007 June 10 by Anton

You may know from The Art of Computer Programming §4.1 (citing W. Penney, 1965) that, just as any positive real number can be represented by a bit string in base 2, any complex number can be represented by a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in eye-candy, mathematics | Leave a comment

fun with eigenvectors

Posted on Saturday, 2007 April 28 by Anton

After installing that matrix math library, I spent a week’s evenings pushing several abstract graphs through my “topological coordinates” program and finding, to my lack of complete shock, that none of them had any neat three-dimensional embedding. Then I tried … Continue reading →

Posted in mathematics | 1 Comment

Finagle’s Law

Posted on Sunday, 2007 March 25 by Anton

I hoped to have some new math pictures for you (or at least for me) today, but my attempts to install a code library that I need have come to nothing. The makefile invokes gcc with options that version 3.3 … Continue reading →

Posted in bitterness, mathematics, neep-neep | 6 Comments

les maths sont universels

Posted on Saturday, 2007 February 03 by Anton

Philippe “Goulu” cites my sphere arrangements page and discusses the subject thereof, in French.

Posted in blogdom, mathematics | Leave a comment

Jenn

Posted on Friday, 2006 August 04 by Anton

New toy! Fritz Obermeyer’s Jenn makes stereographic projections of most of the convex uniform tilings of the hypersphere; of the 64 Conway-Guy polychora only four (whose construction is somewhat anomalous) are missing. I downloaded the generic Unix version and easily … Continue reading →

Posted in eye-candy, mathematics | 1 Comment