Look At It... Beautiful

look at it... beautiful

professors who have only interacted with other academics for years: “what do you MEAN you don’t know multi-variable calculus yet??”

professors with small kids: “thank you for not putting the lab equipment in your mouths when I turn my back”

Today's discovery: With 45-degree lighting, two cubes positioned vertically a cube's length apart will have one continuous shadow. Any further and the shadows separate, the second being twice the length of the first.

This is because the grounded cubes only cast shadow from the top-front-right edge, while the floating cubes also cast from the bottom-back-left edge.

Fun little math trick I find really helpful: the ratio of a mile to a kilometer is within 1% of the Golden Ratio. That means that if you have a good memory for Fibonacci numbers (1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89) you can convert pretty accurately by taking consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

For example, 89 kilometers is really close to 55 miles (55.3). Or, say you need to convert 26 miles to kilometers: 26 can be written as 21 plus 5, so taking the next Fibonacci number up gives 34 and 8, meaning it should be around 42 kilometers. Sure enough, it's 41.8 km!

Putting a pentagon, hexagon, and heptagon together around a point ALMOST gives you a full 360° (actually 356.571429°)

If I were God, I would have patched this by now.