Author Archives: davescarthin
Putting Australia in the Shade; A Lattice Labyrinth employed to Spectacular Effect
Out of the blue has come this message from Asher of Alchemy Decor in Australia. To quote in full: I make complex and beautiful shade structures for festivals all over Australia, taking inspiration from geometry, tilling art and all sorts … Continue reading
A Birthday Card for the 1 in 1500 of us born on 29th. February
My eccentric friend Evan Rutherford, the Professor and Potter of Green Hill, Wirksworth, newspaper boy and contrarian scourge of the Chattering Classes, informs me that he is at a loss for a present for his brother, who is celebrating his … Continue reading
March Fools’ Day (Brexit Day) 29th. March 2019
If I hear “It’s the will of the British people” one more time **************!!! Actually it’s the will of one wavering voter in every fifty. While in the European project Britain has lurched from one social or economic disaster to … Continue reading
The Theorem of Trithagoras; Pythagoras is for Squares. The MathsJam 2017 Five-minute Presentation.
Mention Pythagoras and Pythagorean triangles spring to mind, but his theorem is really about the area of certain squares (regular polygons with four sides) and sums of their areas, which happens to relate to the sides of the aforesaid triangles. … Continue reading
Wirksworth Art and Architecture Trail 2017 – Une Tessellation dédidée a la Cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Die
The 2017 Wirksworth Festival, in Derbyshire, England, runs from 8th until 24th. September.perhaps its most successful feature is the Art and Architecture Trail, 10 till 5 on Saturday and Sunday, 9th and 10th. September. This has grown over the years … Continue reading
Tessellating the Hardy-Ramanujan Taxicab Number, 1729, Bedrock of Integer Sequence A198775.
Here is Trefoil Lattice Labyrinth (32,15). There’s something rather special about it. According to the celebrated story, the English mathematician G.H.Hardy arrived at the hospital bedside of his Indian protege ( the autodidact mathematical genius) Srinivasa Ramanujan in London taxi … Continue reading
Tiptoe tentatively into tessellated 2017
HURRAH! 2017 is the first tessellatable year since 2011, either on the square or on the triangular lattice. To start with the last but best image I’ve found: This shows symmetry axes and six supertiles of Trefoil Lattice Labyrinth (41,7), … Continue reading
Thanks for the MathsJam Conference 2016 at Yarnfield Park near Stone, Staffordshire
I’ve only just discovered MathsJam, which may be meeting at a pub near you on the last but one Tuesday of each month, with Tuesday 13th.December 2016 a pre-Christmas exception. Here’s the MathsJam twitter site and a list of cities … Continue reading
A Tessellation in the Wirksworth Festival Art and Architecture Trail, 10,11 September 2016
The 2016 Wirksworth Festival, Derbyshire, UK, begins on Saturday 10th. September with the pioneering and now widely-famed Art and Architecture Trail which takes you from surprise to surprise, in and out of gardens, up and down the ancient hillside town … Continue reading
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