In this session, Alex Arthur (
@JamesA) shared an odd fountain they found whilst travelling that is both mathsy and artsy.
@Tony_Mann showed us a magic square, which is interesting whichever way you look at it:
https://www.markfarrar.co.uk/chris-wardles-reflections-magic-square.htm. We revisited (a kind of) slide rule with
@gavan Fantom, who told us about Mechanical Flight Computers. We then heard from
@pozorvlak about lathes, and cool shapes that can be produced using them (including a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotrochoid) Vanessa Madu talked about modelling an ocean and the commendable properties of rubber ducks for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees_spill. Following this, Joey Marianer spoke on the Prisoner's Dilemma and intuition (see
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HFyWNBnDNEDsDNLrZ/the-true-prisoner-s-dilemma for more info).
@andrewt then spoke about a graphics trick used in old videogames to rotate sprites - just do three shears!
#mathsjam #maths #fountain #strasbourg #magicsquares #sliderule #flightcomputer #modelling #rubberducks #ocean #prisonersdilemma #graphics #videogames #shears #imagerotation