Wednesday, 22 May 2019

The Story of Spikey—Stephen Wolfram Blog

quote [ Spikey, the symbol of the Wolfram companies, is actually a rhombic hexecontahedron. Stephen Wolfram shares the origins and development of the Wolfram Spikey, its physical properties, the history of the shape’s discovery, and occurrences in nature. ]

This is a little too much math for me, but jumps through so many layers it's worth reading even if you just look at the pictures.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 Good]
[by Paracetamol@7:28pmGMT]

Comments

Menchi said @ 5:56am GMT on 23rd May
I'm gratified that looking at that image and thinking "those look like Penrose tiles" wasn't entirely inaccurate. Just took a few dozen pages of reading to get to the relation!
lilmookieesquire said @ 4:21pm GMT on 23rd May
I used to play with those wood blocks when i was a kid.

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