Category Archives: eye-candy

Newton’s dance

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 06 by Anton

Awesome orbital simulations in Java, including an answer to “everyone’s favorite question about Klemperer Rosettes. Is Larry Niven’s Puppeteer solar system stable?”

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hello web!

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 05 by Anton

The newest contributor to my hit-count is a link from Andrea and Friedrich Lohmueller, whose image galleries are worth the visit.

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hyperbolic, baby!

Posted on Friday, 2002 February 22 by Anton

Pretty things: hyperbolic planar tesselations by Don Hatch. Presented in the conformal Poincaré disc mapping, which is the most common; it’s analogous to stereographic projection of a sphere. Another favorite mapping is the half-plane, which has no analogue that I … Continue reading →

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boobs

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 February 20 by Anton

I caught myself staring at a stranger’s cleavage, and averted my eyes, because nice boys don’t stare. Then it occurred to me that, as the shirt around the breasts in question was emblazoned HUSTLER, she probably didn’t mind. But by … Continue reading →

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soap films

Posted on Sunday, 2002 February 10 by Anton

I’ve begun to learn to use Ken Brakke’s Surface Evolver. Haven’t yet found whether it has the one feature that would make it ideal for my exploration of nonspherical ‘dome’ forms: ability to constrain the edges to equal length. The … Continue reading →

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