Monthly Archives: December 2015

allonymy

Posted on Tuesday, 2015 December 29 by Anton

A notice to renew my domain registration prompts thoughts of what I might have used instead: ansher, anwood, tonsher, tonwood ? tonsher reminds me of an acquaintance whose bald spot looks uncannily like a monk’s tonsure — and that’s even funnier … Continue reading →

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Scribbles: The Ensmoothening, Part II

Posted on Sunday, 2015 December 20 by Anton

One thing I noticed in that last series of charts is that more than one degree of discontinuity doesn’t help: the best-looking curves are mostly on the diagonal, where only the last nonzero derivative is discontinuous. Here, therefore, are those … Continue reading →

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ensmoothening scribbles

Posted on Sunday, 2015 December 06 by Anton

Presented for your consideration: the somewhat disappointing results of an experiment in using piecewise polynomial spirals, of varying degrees of continuity, to fit the Takana — disappointing in that few if any of the curves are as pretty as I … Continue reading →

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