Category Archives: sciences

soap films in curved space

A few of the many triply periodic minimal surfaces can be generated from a quadrilateral slice through a tetrahedron of mirrors, as refined by Surface Evolver. I had the idea that the same concept, applied to one of the analogous … Continue reading

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but wait there’s more

This one is a projection of a design on (half of) the surface of a hypersphere: a ribbon spans two orthogonal great circles, wrapping three times around one and five times around the other. Kitty teeth did break it at … Continue reading

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Baby’s First Klein Bottle™

Not only did it not fall apart in my hands …

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first tangible result

The strand — for it is a Klein bottle woven of a single strand — is thinner than I expected, and has broken in at least two places. Ah well, live and learn; I’ve already redesigned it to be more … Continue reading

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Gray palette

I came up with this concept several years ago (I can’t tell exactly when, because I’ve mislaid the original code!) but never posted any of the images until now. Some of you may like to guess what’s going on before … Continue reading

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the strawman market

One often hears: [Libertarianism] can only work if all the conditions of a free market economy are present … things like anyone being able to easily enter any market segment, all consumers having near-perfect knowledge of what they are purchasing, … Continue reading

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blending curves

I made some progress on an old project: to make outline fonts based on some favorite old bitmap fonts, by automatic fitting of smooth curves to the sequences of dots. (The image above is in Scalable Vector Graphic format. If … Continue reading

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