Tweet Archive 2018 07
RT @julleor: Elements: preview of things to come
Replying to @jwelham
Thanks! You need 70 pieces: 10 isosceles triangles of width 28.8cm and height 22.9cm, then 10 diamonds each of: width 33.9cm x height 42.2cm, 35.6 x 40.8, 33.9 x 42.2, 28.9 x 45.8, 21.0 x 49.9, 11.1 x 53.0. Or design your own: https://timhutton.github.io/zomes/
Replying to @jwelham
All joining edge lengths are the same: 27.1cm. Mark the diamonds to keep them the right way up. You’ll need ~100m of parcel tape to join the cardboard - the paper version is easiest to work with, e.g. http://amzn.eu/h0LghdL Cutting took me about 6 hours. Assembly took about 4.
Replying to @jwelham
Good luck! Send photos!
Replying to @jwelham
This photo shows one of each kind of piece with the diamonds all the right way up. For cardboard I used 20 of these boxes: http://amzn.eu/6vmpMy8 but mostly because we’d just moved, you might find a better solution.
An interesting space-filling shape that has curved faces. https://twitter.com/3Dmattias/status/1014224191401361409
Replying to @3Dmattias
It does look well made. I suspect Alan Schoen made it, see here: http://beachpackagingdesign.com/boxvox/packaging-structure-or-a-blueprint-of-space
Replying to @3Dmattias
Where did you find out about this shape?
RT @FabricatedFrame: Gr8 site visit to @cambridgemosque today. 30 freeform tree structures, one 6.5m high dome, 2746 beams, 145 variations,…
Replying to @tim_hutton
I added a door, so we can get inside easily. With the right material (polypropylene sheets?) and joining system it might be fun to laser-cut a larger version of this to use as a tent.
Good news for EU members! What with the introduction of GDPR, and the recent decision on copyright, and the forthcoming crackdown on tax avoidance, there’s a lot to love about being in the EU. https://twitter.com/MalmstromEU/status/1015253282720272385
Roger Waters, Birmingham Arena, July 7th 2018
RT @jlmunoz161: Los profes no son tan diferentes de los alumnos. En mi taller del @xvii_ceam pudieron a prueba la resistencia de las cúpu…
Replying to @hollykrieger, @benorlin, @jeremyjkun and @matthematician
Each mat had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits,
Oh, that’s why they want to exclude services. https://twitter.com/AndrewStoneman/status/1015857513856675840
Good thread. It’s amazing how many people think that violence, and the threat of violence, is the root of all power. Gandhi showed us that the true root of power is cooperation. He demonstrated conclusively that if that cooperation is withheld then violence is powerless. https://twitter.com/radicalbytes/status/1016778646655123456
Replying to @cyriakharris
I would pay a negative amount of money to watch this video again.
RT @JolyonMaugham: Tax dodging is like global warming. A country can’t fix it on its own. Tax falls into the gaps between its system and it…
Replying to @davidschneider
I guess you’re not a fan.
Replying to @BertChakovsky and @MikolaLysenko
Yes, I saw this. Looks interesting. Is it a reaction-diffusion thing like SmoothLife? What’s the formula?
Replying to @BertChakovsky and @MikolaLysenko
Is it written up somewhere? Can I see the details, and re-implement it?
Replying to @BertChakovsky and @MikolaLysenko
Oh, nevermind, I found it: https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia Thanks!
Thanks to @3Dmattias and @KangarooPhysics, I now know of two symmetric curved-surface space-filling ‘saddle polyhedra’. This page by Alan Schoen talks about them, as TT (Fig. E2.25) and DET (Fig. E2.50). http://schoengeometry.com/e-tpms.html
Replying to @flimsin, @FryRsquared and @RogerHighfield
In a similar line of thought, from 2010, this comment by salishsea on metafilter: https://ask.metafilter.com/148595/Respecfully-agree-to-disagree#2128070
RealGo is the game of Go but played with real-valued coordinates, not integers. https://github.com/ionreq/realgo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6JG0L-II4
RT @JamesMelville: No deal Brexit: 2,800,000 fewer jobs £158bn loss per year
Trade agreement Brexit (outside the single market): 1,750,00…
RT @KirstyS_Hughes: Latest Yougov poll: 53% remain, 47% leave: London, North of England & Scotland all remain majorities (as NI tho not in…