{"id":1671,"date":"2005-07-12T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T20:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2006-07-15T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T16:56:19","slug":"time-waster-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"time-sink of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planarity.net\/\">Planarity<\/a>, a Flash puzzle: rearrange the vertices so that no edges cross.  (Cited by Joshua Burton.)<\/p>\n<p>When a solution is near, the program gets very slow, which seems backward.  (<strong>Thursday:<\/strong> It has been changed to test only on the player&#8217;s request.)<\/p>\n<p>How is the graph generated?  Perhaps it starts with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~eppstein\/gina\/delaunay.html\">Delaunay triangulation<\/a> of a random set of vertices, and deletes edges until each vertex has degree 4, 3 or 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planarity, a Flash puzzle: rearrange the vertices so that no edges cross. (Cited by Joshua Burton.) When a solution is near, the program gets very slow, which seems backward. (Thursday: It has been changed to test only on the player&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}