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Friday, 2003 January 10, 12:32 — eye-candy, mathematics

what hath Coxeter wrought

pretty hyperbolic tilings

Saturday, 2002 November 16, 17:37 — eye-candy, mathematics

tantalizing

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

Saturday, 2002 October 12, 21:57 — eye-candy, technology

render unto pixels

The Virtual Terrain Project collects links about the state of the art in realtime simulated environments, from “why can’t you make better trees?” to “how do you decide when part of the field of view can be rendered more sloppily?”.

Wednesday, 2002 September 25, 20:49 — arts, eye-candy

and it plays

Harpsichord made almost entirely of Lego parts. (vectored by Sam Yorko and Clint Chaplin)

Sunday, 2002 May 26, 11:07 — eye-candy, mathematics

a great icosahedron

. . 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.

Sunday, 2002 May 12, 12:52 — eye-candy, mathematics

I always wanted one

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.

Sunday, 2002 May 5, 17:24 — eye-candy, mathematics

gadgeteer at play

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

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