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Dr. James Grime talking about the Shannon Number and other chess stuff.

The Shannon number, named after information theorist Claude Shannon, is an estimation of the game-tree complexity of chess. It represents a lower bound on the game-tree complexity, which is the number of possible positions in the game tree of chess.

Family Room Philadelphia Example of a mid-sized transitional enclosed terra-cotta tile and red floor family room library design with a hanging fireplace and white walls

Family Room in Philadelphia Example of a medium-sized transitional enclosed family room library with terra cotta tile flooring, red walls, and a hanging fireplace.

So turns out the coordinate math behind hexagonal chess is... Simple I think? If we just agree not to use the directions I've labeled as x and z all we have to do is generate regular chess moves in 3D (a solved problem by yours truly) and then take whatever is in the y-coordinate and add it to both the x and z coordinates. Then we just drop the y coordinate and we should get something 2D that a computer can store into an array. The non-squareness of the board is going to be interesting to deal with but I expected this to be... Well more interesting. I'm kind of disappointed tbh

As a side note I threw this through an AI art style transfer called Prisma because I'd like to post more handwritten notes, but I also want them to be a bit prettier. Interesting experiment on two fronts

Pascal Janssen - Dreamscape

Sym

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Open Family Room in Charleston Example of a huge trendy open concept gray floor family room design with a ribbon fireplace, a wall-mounted tv and white walls

Credit to @swamphelminth for the idea, I got inspiration from their chess themed Chuck Skin so enjoy King Byron!

(Creator note: Yes that is brown eyeshadow on a man so if you have a problem, please scroll rather than hate.)

the feminine urge to become Beth Harmon