In the current era of computer programming culture it is rare to see someone implement something totally new. It happens occasionally now but in the 8-bit era everything was new; in the 16-bit era and…
Browsing Category Mathematics
Quintics Redux
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about finding the closest point on a cubic bezier to a given point in which I showed how to reduce the problem to solving a…
“Triangular Life”
Recently I looked through a bunch of triangular cellular automata in which each (1) uses two states, (2) uses the simple alive cell count type of rule, and (3) uses the neighborhood around a cell…
RIP Magnus Wenninger
Father Magnus Wenninger died last month.
Is there hexagonal analog of Conway’s Game of Life?
The short answer is that in the hexagonal case the best analog of Conway’s Game of Life — in my opinion as someone who has been a CA hobbyist for 30 years or so —…
A Woven Icosahedron
You can weave an icosahedron from 10 strips of paper — or anyway you can weave a construction that has icosahedral geometry; it is actually more of a snub icosahedron. From about 11″ strips of…