Early draft: A Curriculum Framework for 2002 by K. Urner The purpose of bringing spatial geometry into the foreground in the introductory mathematics...
... Hi Kirby, rybo here. Ar you familiar with sequencing of Fibinaccaio numbers. Really blew my mind too see this expanded view. Novel or new to me. What...
Lee Smolin seems to imply ergo with my hypothisis that gravity interferes with itself. My versison involves 8 overlapping icosahedra. Quote frome 3 Roads of...
Re: http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting/markov.html Thanks for the feedback rybo. I've been wondering whether The Fibonacci numbers could legitimately be used to...
... Hmmm... It should! Im looking at it now. http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ ... If you are using windows 98 You may be able to start media player first,...
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http://pages.prodigy.net/lofting/markov.html Rybo posted the above url. I know almost nothing about markov chains and the like, so I cannot judge the accuracy...
Kirby Urner, 4D Solutions Yes John, thanks for pointing me back to the Lofting context -- another grand systematizer. I enjoy such sites. Probably why I...
... I have no problem with grand systematizers, but this Lofting site didn't impress me. About the Fibonacci sequence, he wrote "This pattern is extremely...
... [dels] ... spheres. ... ( http://tetrahedraverse.com/images/jadeinot.jpg ) No, and that's a peculiar question, for me: Although the object shown is in...
... They are, which is one of the misleading things. Also, "edges" (misnomer, in Tverse, which has no "edges") are different lengths in all icosahedro(not)s...
(A copy sent to Tverse list...) ... An added note: Here's a copy of the same .EIG file, from Alan Ferguson's SpringDance program, screenshot/cut/pasted with...
(*Dang!*) Sorry. Here's the image Rybo was supposed to get, of the tetspace done in SpringDance. http://tetrahedraverse.com/images/SDbigone_S.jpg Apologies. I...
... Ok edges or whatever you call them are different length. ... Latter part of this maka no sense to me [ "but the VE, anyway."] i repeat how many external...
... It looks like some ot the external vertexes of this irregular icoashedron only have one edge attached to it. Others have 4 or more. How many internal...
Hi John: Nice to see some SpringDance work. It is pretty easy to see what you mean by tet space. I noticed that your jpeg was just one jpeg when I thought it...
Hello: Here is a link to my latest SpringDance graphic. http://users.highway1.com.au/~dharmraj/springdance/cubestar.html I jitterbugged a 2 frequency cube to...
... Okey, it works for me too. I might try that browser sometime. I like the new stuff you point out. ... I was able to view the "throbbers' moving with Media...
Hello: Today I came up with something new. This is the link to two jpegs. http://users.highway1.com.au/~dharmraj/springdance/concavetet.html I was able to take...
... Hi John! ... I wonder why rybo's having so much trouble with it? (I know I don't write as clearly as I'd like to; I always try for clarity, I always seem...
... six ... is ... 30 external edges. 20 external openings. 42 edges altogether (including the interior 12). It's an icosahedron; a _nucleated_ icosahedron....
... John- In the jade Inot, there are only five stretched vectors with all the others equal in length, right? So, it would be easy to figure surface and volume...
... icosahedra. ... energy. ... porportional ... This is troublesome, for two reasons: 1) Einstein's viewpoint, that gravity is essentially 'the shape of ...
... SDbigone_S.jpg is not an icosahedron. It is a ball of many interpenetrated icosahedra, yes, but I don't have any idea what you'd call the whole object; it...
... By the way, John, I tried messing with my object before shooting the stereo pix, the way your "collapsing" eig is adjusted. It's all one springset, but if...
In this application, what is going on? I am not a programmer. Anyone help me? Dick http://www-smpr.ct.ornl.gov/~dalmeida/software/feconvertdoc/ gallery.html...
... All 5 platonic shapes come as convex, [not familiar with any concave ones] one celled bio-organisms. See Guy Murchies 7 Mysteries of Life Also if ve seen...
