Category Archives: Serpentine Labyrinths
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
Pythagorean Pairs of Pairs…and the Occasional Triplet of Pairs
Here are small parts of two Serpentine Lattice Labyrinth tessellations. Though these two patterns look very different and the arrays of superlattice points (which we can take to be marked by the black squares) and symmetry axes are at different … Continue reading
Lattice Labyrinth Tilings and Pavings: An Image Gallery
The thumbnailed gallery below is a handy summary of images included in the various posts of the Lattice Labyrinths blog and has now been copied as a page of the blog. In the course of time that page will tend … Continue reading
Eine kleine Mathmusik : From Lattice Labyrinths via √-1 to Pythagorean Triples
Since starting this blog I have made a point of “following” twitter accounts maintained by passionate mathematics teachers and many have paid me the complement of following me in return. It is time I thanked them/you for this complement by … Continue reading
Burns Night 2015. Single Malts, Tessellated Tartans and a Hexed Honeycomb for the Bard
Aberlour, Ben Nevis, Glen Moray, Jura, The Macallan, Monkey Shoulder – where’s the Laphroaig? One in fifteen guests brought a bottle of single malt whisky to my latest decadal birthday party. And tomorrow the 25th of January is Burns Night, … Continue reading
Consolation Tessellations for Brazil and Argentina
Thank you to today’s visitor to this blog from Brazil and best wishes to the inspiring neuro-psychologist from Rio de Janeiro who visited the Celebrating Cromford festival on Saturday 21st. June this year. Not only Brazil, but now also Argentina … Continue reading
A Lattice Labyrinth for Today, 27th. March
As an alternative to designing designs for birthYEARS, how about some Lattice Labyrinths for birthDAYS. If we take the day and the month to be the separation parameters, so that 27th. March becomes (27,3) then one possibility is Serpentine Labyrinth … Continue reading
Chinese Year of The Horse, Wood Horse Year 1954
Chinese Year 2014 began on 31st. January and is the Year of the Horse and also of the element Wood. I can’t do a Labyrinth with 2014 squares or triangles in its Repeat Unit (see the Making Manifest your Birthyear … Continue reading
Mike’s 1994 Serpentine Labyrinth
After another extended struggle, I can reveal a construction of Serpentine Lattice Labyrinth (37,25), which has the desired repeat unit of 1994 squares, made up of two supertiles at right-angles to one another, and each comprising 997 squares. Finding this … Continue reading
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