Category Archives: eye-candy

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 →

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when grown-ups play with blocks

Posted on Sunday, 2006 May 07 by Anton

I’ve redone the Wikipedia page on convex uniform tilings of Euclidean 3-space. It occurs to me that one could enumerate the convex uniform tilings of flat, spherical and hyperbolic 3-spaces by an approach similar to what I’ve used to find … Continue reading →

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photorealistic animation

Posted on Saturday, 2006 February 11 by Anton

– clikclak – the movie – (Quicktime) (cited by Scott McCloud)

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Framestore CFC Press Release

Posted on Sunday, 2005 October 09 by Anton

noitulovE, a quick recap (in reverse) of the last few hundred million years of life; gorgeous animation (Quicktime). Cited in povray.off-topic by Gilles Tran.

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travelogue

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 October 05 by Anton

Someone mounted a camera on the back seat of a convertible to shoot a compressed record of a trip from Los Angeles to New York.

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a day’s air traffic

Posted on Saturday, 2005 October 01 by Anton

I downloaded this two years ago but never watched it before: animation of US airline movements around the clock

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fun with topology

Posted on Friday, 2005 June 17 by Anton

It’s surprising that I had not heard before of the mathematical sculptor Rinus Roelofs. His Möbius-double could be seen as a metaphor for half-spin particles.

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