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Changing directions

September 2nd, 2010 1 comment

For some reason, this reminds me a lot of the way some of my research has been going recently….

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Nature by numbers

April 28th, 2010 Comments off

Beautiful video showing the mathematical beauty of nature, or the natural beauty of math.

Here’s what I managed to figure out:

0:08-0:44 – Fibonacci sequence
0:45-1:40 – The Golden Ratio
2:40 – Delauney triangulations leading to Voronoi diagrams (2:56 and to the end)

Five octopus vids

December 17th, 2009 2 comments

The coconut using octopus has been making the news lately, as the first evidence of tool use by these animals. A good opportunity to post some vids of these cool creatures:

UPDATE: the “first tool use” has been somewhat oversold. Thanks to Zen Faulkes for calling my attention to this.

They are resourceful:

Camouflage skills:

More camouflage skills, and dining habits:

More dining habits:

Flexible:

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