http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35171408 We present a fully functional material extrusion printer for optically transparent glass. The printer is composed of scalable modular elements able to operate at the high temperatures required to process glass from a molten state to an annealed product. We demonstrate a process enabling the construction of 3D parts as described by computer-aided design … Continue reading Molten glass sewing machine
Category: Maths
Alternative rules for Life
Here's a list of alternative rules for Conway's Game of Life (see images below), along with a programme to run them on or test your own variations, and a desciption of Life. Here's another Javascript version with an interface on which you can draw.
The aesthetics returns of Islam’s golden age of mathematics
The aesthetics returns of Islam's golden age of mathematics Decagonal and Quasicrystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture Physicist Peter Lu explains how Islamic craftsmen incorporated tessellations, which were thought to be only recently discovered, into their mosques and shrines.
Emergence and Complexity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o_ZuWbX-CyE (May 21, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on emergence and complexity. He details how a small difference at one place in nature can have a huge effect on a system as time goes on. He calls this idea fractal magnification and applies it to many different systems that exist throughout nature.
Joey O'Gorman 