A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and displaying it on a flat surface provides a fresh perspective on geography, making it possible to create maps that string out the continents for easy comparison, or lump together the world’s oceans into one huge mass of water surrounded by coastlines.
“Myriahedral projection” was developed by Jack [...]
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Myriahedral projection maps of the world
12-Way Intersection
Figured out by hand no less, I’d love to see this reproduced with a computer.
FFFFOUND!
FFFFOUND! is a new-ish image bookmarking site, kind of like del.icio.us for whatever badass photography/art/design/etc. you find around the internet. Not only that though, the website itself is an aggregate cornucopia of beautiful, stimulating, cortex-crunching imagery taken from everyone else’s submissions.
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
His explanation traces the seemingly erratic nature of fundamental particles to the symmetries of E8, a simplified representation of an even more complex 248-dimensional object. “My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing,” he told New Scientist, recalling when he first made the connection between his theories and the shape of E8. “I thought: ‘Holy crap, that’s it!’” Thus far all the particle interactions predicted by his model correspond with observations in the real world. (…)
How to Turn a Sphere Inside Out
(video)
Columnar Basalts
Columnar Basalts are rock formations resulting from the quick cooling of lava flow. Fractures form in a random cellular network (similar to soap bubbles, organic cells, etc.), though the average distribution of sides is six, giving the hexagonal structures an eerie man-made appearance.
Stacey Whaley: Intergalactic Art
(images)
E8
Essentially, if I understand it correctly, it’s like a 2-D shadow of a 248-D sphere, an object so symmetrical you could theoretically rotate it in any direction in up to 248 dimensions and it still appear the same.
Solstice to Solstice
His latest takes 40,000 photos tagged “sunset” last year, each positioned horizontally according to the day taken, and vertically according to the hour. You can watch the year progress as the summer and winter solstices fade back and forth.
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