Lee Smolin, life of the cosmos, Cosmological Natural Selection is his theme in this book. Facinating read on star formation and the types of intellar mediums...
[requoted, reordered, attempts at attribution, etc] On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Quincy Quincy Quincy wrote: [Probably Dick wrote:] ... When building one of these...
Hi John ... No advice or recommendations but I moved to OpenGL recently from using basic 3d stuff I wrote myself (which simply generated coloured triangles). I...
Hi, Adrian. Thanks for the advice. OpenGL seems to be the way I need to go. (I thought so anyway; most v-card companies these days seem to make a concerted...
Lee Smolin pg. 333 "The reader may be disturbed that i have described general relativity while making no mention of geometry, curved spacetime, and so on. This...
I was distracted for a few weeks. ... Sorry, I missed the obvious reference to the law of cosines, as several pointed out, which clearly precludes angles such...
Is there a name for the solid angle equal to 60 degrees? I notice that one sphere equals 12.5664 sterads of solid angle. A sterad is abouy 57 degrees, equal in...
... Dick I think you looking for this number, 4.188790205 ,frank __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from...
I don't know that it's not true that "to a spacetime corresponds a riemannian manifold --A church-school McCrusade (Blair's ideals): Harry-the-Mad-Potter...
He was referring to fractal "self-similarity." Subject: octane I have two questions, can a B-A module build it's larger self? http://www.cartan.pair.com/ --A...
Of course, one of those stars is the Sun, but only in the daytime (unless you have a REALLY big mirror). Thus saith: it was never intended to be equal-area,...
Saith "Dick:" You've seen one version of Fischbeck's map, looks like this; pressed for time, Alaska got severed: I don't think that you made this; or, how did...
... What do you mean by "just right"? Just right for what? It is easy to make the cone modules just right for sticking together in a paper model. I just used...
Hi Steve ... Thanks for these, and other links. I have only had a quick look at them for now as I have been busy programming. I hope to look at them all more ...
... First, on a globe, I located were I wanted the vertexes. I choose the locations of the vertexes to minimize the land triangles and to maximize the ocean...
From: "Adrian Rossiter" [dels] ... This effect also appears in my physical model, and has a corollary in my computer-compressor model. In the physical model,...
you're giving us a machine-tool to do it with -- Bucky'd dig that! thus qutoh: But cutting and punching the straws has proved to be more challenging, partly...
[another NB: I've got an excerpt form the IOM report on hemp, that is as devastating as the coverage of it on the radio was "lite, plus!"] I looked at a couple...
Thanks, man. Sierpinski's monograph is just called, I think, _Pythagorean Triangles_; it's pretty old. It shouldn't be too hard to prove that those are the...
I wouldn't speculate upon Chip's proclivity for yo'face, dude ... well, I wouldn't type it out, at any rate! thus quoth: " John Foster "Chip" Berlet is a...
I'm getting sick of this pretension, but it seems that "Dick" and his imaginary inventor, in inventing a "new map," have at least made a keen observation in...
on the wayside, it has mothing to do with the GCs, themselves, not being "straight" (as a ruler) on a map. thus quoth: Right, the air routes from Oslo are not...
OK; here's a little problem for trigonated maps (which also applies to polygonated maps of any sort, trivially): Can you find a Moebius transform from one...
I hate these moron-savants, like the Genitalia-on-Mars guy [*]. ... * well, where are they, "doctor" Dick?... I mean, I hate to love these guys! thus quoth: ...
not surprisingly, this Munck critter has a list of surreal links, along with fellow planet-artist Hoagland his very first link is to Fart Smell. I'll post the...
Hi QQQ, Another day, another map... http://www.geocities.com/kruste_klown/Map/mobe.html This one should keep the Penquins happy, as its shows all the countries...
