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 [...]
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Olympic Water Cube
Posted in curves and surfaces, tagged olympics, water cube on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Camera toss
Posted in curves and surfaces, tagged curves, photography on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Flikr group called Camera Toss (you throw the camera in the air) has been producing some great pictures of curves. Singularity theorists will recognize cusps in some of the pictures.
View the group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/
One of the group administrators clickykbd has some really good examples.
