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Submitted by Paul REMY on
Here is a marble run inspired by the famously known Hilbert space filling curves, with this you are able to 3d print lego compatible marble run of any size.
There are 6 different models necessary to build every iteration wanted; each of them is based on the 2nd iteration of the Hilbert curves.
Submitted by Gabriel Ce Olli... on
Submitted by Samuel Lelièvre on
Diplotori are polyhedra “of genus one” (that is, “with one hole”, like a buoy or a donut) which are “flat” in the sense that the total angle at each vertex is exactly 360 degrees.
Submitted by Johanna Marschall on
Discussion game on AI and Future
Submitted by Bernat Espigulé on
Plug a USB webcam, open an app like Photo Booth or Chrome’s Webcam Toy, enable the mirror effect, and then point your webcam to the screen. What do you see? The images get trap in a fractal attractor that you have just created by closing the video-feedback loop! The camera roll angle acts as the argument of the complex number and the distance from the camera to the screen acts as its modulus. Isn’t it wonderful? Have fun exploring this space of fractals that live in the complex plane.
Submitted by Jérémy Bonvoisin on
The “ball-sorting machine” is a work-in-progress concept of a purely mechanical machine capable of sorting balls by weight order using a selection of sorting algorithms.
Submitted by Tom Crawford on
The Platonic Solids are some of the most beautiful and symmetrical shapes in the mathematical world and as a result have fascinated mathematicians for thousands of years. This exhibit explains their mathematical deifnition and how they have been used throughout history to model everything in our universe, from the classical elements of Ancient Greece through to Kepler’s model of the solar system. It also explores their appearance in nature and how humans have made use of their mathematical properties to improve the design of man-made objects.
Submitted by Evgeniy Shiryaev on
Sorting algorithms are present both in wild nature and human induced reality. Example of the first one is a sequence of fights while flock hierarchy based on intraspecific concuration is been built. The second one can be seen in final part of Olympics in a sport game.
Submitted by Evgeniy Shiryaev on
The item demonstrates the optical property of parabola. In comparison to others exhibits with the same idea this one allows continuous movement of incident beam.
Submitted by Rafael Prieto Curiel on
Human migration is a topic that has commanded numerous column inches and news time in the past few years, and will probably continue to do so for some years to come. However, it is also a subject that suffers from misrepresentation and sensationalism: our perception of migration is heavily skewed by stereotypes that, aided by media reporting, have come to dominate our opinions at the expense of reliable data and statistics.
Chalkdust, a magazine for the mathematically curious (www. chalkdustmagazine.com), therefore developed an exhibit partly to challenge some of these perceptions and partly to show the application of mathematics in the social sciences and highlight the links between different fields of mathematics, thereby hopefully furthering the magazine’s goal of raising awareness of the beauty and importance of maths.
In particular, the exhibit shows how Newton’s discovery of gravity in 1687 has recently been applied to model migration, as well as other social behaviours such as trade.