Category Archives: me!me!me!

unapologetically one-sided

My newest design on Shapeways is a model of the Lawson-Klein surface : a stereographic projection of ( cos(u)cos(2v), cos(u)sin(2v), sin(u)cos(v), sin(u)sin(v) )

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oddly tempting

I hadn’t noticed before that my webhost offers MediaWiki. Some of the things I write here are not news, really, but things that sorta belong in my permanent exhibition but are too wordy for that page. I’ll think about that.

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models of the 35 smallest fullerenes

I noticed that Shapeways had 13 models of the roundest of the fullerenes (one of the 1812 forms of C60), but none of the less regular forms; so I made some. Each of the white pieces has mirror symmetry; the … Continue reading

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small irregular fullerenes

Shapeways has thirteen models of (the most symmetrical and famous form of) C60, but none of the thousands of smaller fullerenes. So I designed models of the 35 smallest, i.e. up to C36; this includes the smallest with no symmetries, … Continue reading

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off by one

A look at 404s in my HTTP log revealed a bug in my math pix page, which in two places chooses randomly from families of images. I didn’t know that the PHP function rand(nmin,nmax) is inclusive at both ends.

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a trinket becomes a toy

A new father asked: Are you charmed or annoyed to learn that your 3d geometric object is making a great toy for [baby, 8 mo.]? I replied: I have cats, so I’m not a bit surprised! On a related note, … Continue reading

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down with “capitalism”

I posted this, which is mostly a condensation and paraphrase of part of Roderick Long’s zaxlebax speech. Except for the chicken part.

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