Post #708861
2026-03-21 21:32 UTC
Replies (6)
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@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-25 23:01
Wow, Penrose’s tetrahedron puzzle was a lot more complicated than I had imagined it to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-21ytpCJU
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@Arpie4Math@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-21 21:37
@robinhouston And are we to believe Buckminster Fuller was always talking about his large balls?
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@RobJLow@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-21 22:14
@robinhouston That article also claims Penrose's doctoral thesis was on theoretical physics, but it was on algebraic geometry. 🤷
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@icecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-22 07:35
@robinhouston My experience was that it only ever led to platonic friendships.
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@RefurioAnachro@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-22 22:21
I recently made a shader to illustrate the complex square function using a camera: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/scsGDH The line goes like this: "can we make fractals using a video loop? Look at this!" and I would hold my phone at them, showing their face gruesomely distorted and duplicated... And then, after remarking that they can see everything twice, I'd ask them to go to the restroom with me, because I'd like to show them something in the mirror... I have actually tried this in bars. It was a lot of fun. I didn't get into trouble, because I'm a nice guy, ymmv. @robinhouston
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@mc@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-26 07:48
@robinhouston the next line seems to betray the method