Byte Size Biology » video http://bytesizebio.net The musings and ravings of a computational biologist about science, computers, music and, you know, stuff Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:32:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Changing directions http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2010/09/02/changing-directions/ http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2010/09/02/changing-directions/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:38:48 +0000 Iddo http://bytesizebio.net/?p=4052 For some reason, this reminds me a lot of the way some of my research has been going recently….

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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)

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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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