I haven’t posted for a number of weeks. This is not because I have grown bored of the blog already. No, it’s much more basic than that – I haven’t had time! Why? Well, I had decided my blog would not contain too much of my personal life since I’m sure not very few people [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Clara
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Olympic Water Cube
Posted in curves and surfaces, tagged olympics, water cube on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Water Cube at the recent Beijing Olympics was designed so that the walls looked like foam. I only recently saw this article on the mathematics behind it:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/34283/description/A_building_of_bubbles
The article is short and a bit light on details for hardcore mathematicians but is nonetheless good. Hopefully someone will (or has) written a more mathematical exposition. I’ll [...]
