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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 11:57 pm
by Nonius
Pass the shrooms

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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:01 am
by Nonius
Birds

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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:34 pm
by rod
Henry Segerman: [i]"Perhaps my most effective work is “Grid (stereographic projection)”. A light placed at the top of a 3D printed sphere casts a surprising square grid shadow."[/i]



[img]/User%20Files/2119/grid_stereographic_projection_900.jpeg[/img]

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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:54 pm
by chiral3
If he was surprised I'd assume he didn't know what conformal mapping was prior. What an amazing coincidence to wind up with tat sphere!

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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:58 pm
by rod
Henry Segerman got a PhD at Stanford. I think he meant "surprising to the layperson".

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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:02 pm
by rod
Drawing an ellipse using the Elliptical Trammel:



[img]https://d2t1xqejof9utc.cloudfront.net/screenshots/pics/ee274a8a5d18cddc5a2a16e82905ef0c/large.gif[/img]



Trammel of Archimedes

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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:58 pm
by rod
Another way of drawing an ellipse:



[img]/User%20Files/2119/ellipse.gif[/img]