Tag Archives: Lattice

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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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss – ein Geburtstagsgruß – A Birthday Tessellation for April 30th.

According to Wikepedia, Chapter m Verse n among the mathematical achievements of Carl Friedrich Gauss was the calculation of his own birthdate, by a process akin to calculating the date of Easter for a given year, which process many of … Continue reading

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Eine nicht so kleine Mathmusik: from Lattice Labyrinths to Integer-sided Trythagorean Triangles

Revision: In the previous post we investigated “squaring” a lattice labyrinth tessellation, multiplying the  tessellation by itself and by its mirror image. This is equivalent to multiplying number pairs (a,b) x (a,b) and  (a,b) x (b,a) where (a,b) are the … Continue reading

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Double Tenth Day, 國慶日/雙十節 , National Day of Taiwan, celebrated by Honeycomb (10,10)

Greetings – today is 10/10/2015. here is the post I made for Taiwan last year. Where to sit at the grand Gwangbokjeol   조국해방의 날 Dinner for delegates to the  Bridges 2014  Conference in Seoul? I was one of the … Continue reading

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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

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A Birthday Tessellation for Radio Derby’s tireless Jacqui White

Jacqui was so eager  to be born that she chose a date, June 18th, made up not only of two EVEN numbers but of two numbers also divisible by 3, (18,6). Though the latter divisor means that a Honeycomb Lattice … Continue reading

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A Birthday Labyrinth for BBC Radio Derby, Hurrarch for March 18th.

As an occasional “Loudmouth” on  Sally Pepper’s BBC Radio Derby morning show, it’s time I put my tessellation where my loudmouth is, so here is a design for Sally and for everyone else born on 18th. March, Honeycomb Lattice Labyrinth … Continue reading

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A Thank You to Bridges 2014, Gwacheon Museum, Seoul and 광복절

A big thank you from Delegate Dave to the Bridges Organisation and all those connected with the Gwacheon National Museum of Science and others in the stunning city of Seoul who did so much to make Bridges 2014 such a memorable … Continue reading

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A Lattice Labyrinth for Gwangbokjeol – Independence Day of Korea 광복절

By a fortunate coincidence, I’m presenting my lattice Labyrinths paper at Bridges Seoul 2014  on August 15th., which is Gwangbokjeol, 광복절  , the day in which the Republic of Korea (South Korea) celebrates independence from Japan. This generates the separation parameter … Continue reading

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A Lattice Labyrinth for two Olivers

1983 is not on the list of possibles for a Lattice Labyrinth based on the square lattice. It is a number divisible by 3, which makes it impossible for a Trefoil Labyrinth but a candidate for a Labyrinth based on … Continue reading

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