Adam

A commonly-used stock image of a parrot, rendered in black and white stippling with a pentagonal lattice of dots. The dots form aperiodic star-shaped clusters due to the fact that regular pentagons cannot tile the plane.

i used math to answer the important question: "what if we did halftone printing with a pentagonal grid of dots instead of a square grid"?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
Q: wait, there's no such thing as a grid of regular pentagons
A: i know, right?!

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I want to say it's the R/Z construction specifically, but that's really more of a straight circle.

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'Often I am asked "Who are the algorists?"  Simply put an algorist is anyone who works with algorithms.  Historically we have viewed algorists as mathematicians.  But it also applies to artists who create art using algorithmic procedures that include their own algorithms.' RV

http://algorists.org/

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Combinatorial coordinates for the aperiodic Spectre tiling

If you liked the ‘hat’ aperiodic monotile, and haven’t heard about the follow-up, the Spectre, which is even better, you are one of today’s lucky 10,000 - Simon Tatham has you covered: www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/qu...

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New job has irredental coverage. I'm gonna track down the guy who took out my wisdom teeth and get them back

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Conway's Game of Life is Omniperiodic In the theory of cellular automata, an oscillator is a pattern that repeats itself after a fixed number of generations; that number is called its period. A cellular automaton is called...

Game of Life nerds have completed a multi-decade research program! arxiv.org/abs/2312.02799

For all n, there are oscillators of period n.

I've been spying on their Discord and there was great jubilation when n=19 and 41 got found.

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hi

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we didn't start the, etc

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