Origami masks and tessellations by Joel Cooper:
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Interesting Esoterica Summation
I’m going to try collecting additions to my Interesting Esoterica collection in let’s-say-weekly posts. I’ll link to each item, maybe paste its abstract, and write a sentence or two about it. Let’s see if it catches on. I’m not sure if I’ll have the will to do this regularly. I’m in a bit of a getting-things-done mood today.
As this is the first one, and I’ve added loads of stuff in January, for this first post I’m using everything I’ve added since the New Year. Future posts shouldn’t be anywhere near as long.
I should explain what the Interesting Esoterica collection is about.
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Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light
Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light:
Paula Swisheer
She literally got her art in my maths!
The sign on my office door
Recently, someone left my office at Newcastle University and a new person took their place, so we needed a new sign on our front door. I wanted to do something clever with it, but it needed to be instantly legible to lost supervisors trying to find their students.
My first thought was that since there are seven of us, something to do with the Fano plane would look good. Our names didn’t have enough of the right letters in the right places for it to work, though.
That got me thinking about the Levenshtein distance. The Levenshtein distance between two strings is a measure of how many changes you need to make to one to end up with the other.
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Shadow Pavilion by PLY Architecture
Shadow Pavilion by PLY Architecture:
Three Cubes Colliding by Ivan Morison and Heather Peak
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