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8 votes
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The Sydler π/4 polyhedron. The shape that should be impossible.
15 votes -
When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
8 votes -
The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
4 votes -
Pop-up tents work in a really clever way
7 votes -
If you try to pass a bouncy ball under a table, if it hits the underside of the table it will just bounce back out the way it came
8 votes -
A brief history of tricky mathematical tiling
10 votes -
The mathematician who sculpted the shape of space - obituary for Eugenio Calabi
13 votes -
Polyhedra world
8 votes -
The golf ball paradox
11 votes -
Steffen's polyhedron is a flexible concave polyhedron. Euler thought such a shape was impossible. I also show infinitesimally flexible polyhedrons and bistable polyhedrons.
13 votes -
The game of Set (and some variations)
14 votes -
Escher Lizard flooring project
I like a bit of M.C. Escher art, and I was looking for some Escher images when I stumbled across this old blog post by someone who designed and made his own Escher-inspired floor tiles....
I like a bit of M.C. Escher art, and I was looking for some Escher images when I stumbled across this old blog post by someone who designed and made his own Escher-inspired floor tiles. Fascinating stuff!
Here's the main page, showing a photo of the finished floor: https://danceswithferrets.org/geekblog/?page_id=911
Then there's 8 blog entries, showing the steps he went through from initial idea to finished product.
As a bonus, here's a simple guide I found, which explains how Escher designed & made his tiles: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5754f47fcf80a16bffa02c45/t/57c6b680f7e0abc8f6ac6993/1472640669212/Escher-tiling-instructions.pdf
It's so simple when you know how! But there's obviously still some artistry involved in deciding what shapes to cut & paste.
9 votes -
So you want to turn an office building into a home?
41 votes -
The spool paradox
4 votes -
UK hobbyist discovers new unique shapes, stunning mathematicians
17 votes -
The derivative isn't what you think it is
8 votes -
MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's most terrifying mod
19 votes -
Building a cathedral without science or mathematics: The engineering method explained
4 votes -
The insane engineering of MRI machines
3 votes -
Why the brain’s connections to the body are crisscrossed
6 votes -
Can water solve a maze?
11 votes -
An aperiodic monotile exists!
21 votes -
You can make handmade holograms just by etching lines into a shiny surface. All you need is a compass with two points (a divider). And to be able to get your head around the mind bending geometry.
10 votes -
Worlds hardest jigsaw (all white) vs. puzzle machine
5 votes -
The turntable paradox: A ball on a spinning turntable won't fly off as you might expect. In fact the ball will have it's own little orbit exactly 2/7th the angular speed of the table. Here's why.
6 votes -
Penrose Unilluminable Room is a room with mirrored walls that can't be fully illuminated by a single point source of light
3 votes -
The hyperbolic geometry of DMT experiences
7 votes -
Alice, Bob, and the average shadow of a cube
4 votes -
Getting an odd number of cogs in a loop to turn
7 votes -
An ephemeral artwork made with thousands of footsteps in the snow has captured attention near Finland's capital of Helsinki
19 votes -
The illusion only some can see
12 votes -
The universal geometry of geology
10 votes -
There are forty-eight regular polyhedra
8 votes -
Hyperbolica devlog #1: Non-euclidean geometry explained
4 votes -
A surprising Pi and 5
3 votes -
A parallelogram puzzle
3 votes -
What is the geometry of the universe?
5 votes -
17 Klein Bottles become 1 - ft. Cliff Stoll and the glasswork of Lucas Clarke
12 votes -
A molecular near miss
7 votes -
A quick and dirty introduction to Exterior Calculus (Stoke's Theorem)
6 votes -
Heesch numbers and tiling
7 votes -
Toroflux paradox: making things (dis)appear with math
5 votes -
Twenty questions (of maddening, delicious geometry)
9 votes -
How to convert a non-math-lover (Dandelin spheres)
3 votes -
Balls and cones
4 votes