Wednesday, 22 May 2019
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.
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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!
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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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