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Last sunday was open day at the Technical University Munich and the math department participated mainly with their math museum ix-quadrat. Read the rest of this entry »

->Just a short note: yesterday the Arts Catalyst announced that their report to the
European Space Agency for a Cultural Policy for the International Space
Station has been made public here.

In the randform post about tesselations it was already mentioned that there are not so many mathematical things which can be visualized easily or visualized at all. However next to the tesselations there is a very popular area of mathematical visualization which is Origami. Origami is an active field of mathematical research as well as of arts.

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One of the most touching interpretations of the song of cold genius of Henry Purcells semi-opera King Arthur (1691) Act 3 Movt. 20, Prelude and Aria, “What power art thou” is the one by Klaus Nomi in a Klassik-Rock-Nacht-concert organized by Eberhard Schoener Dec. 1982. ->youtube link

Klaus Nomi in Lothar Lamberts film “Ex und Hopp” singing in soprano falsetto -> youtube link, 1972.

Klaus Nomi is usually known for his pop music (like e.g. “Total Eclipse” -> youtube link) and that is how I learned about him during my youth. However he wanted to work at an opera and had studied at the Berlin conservatory until 1973.

last night was trampoline night with our installation seidesein. seidesein (the above blurry Moire seidesein image is an artefact..:)) was installed in the hallway together with Aram Bartholls nice project “First Person Shooter”

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Just a reminder of an earlier announcement about a public appearance of our work seidesein (see also NMI 2006 conference) at the trampoline night of trampoline/radiator festival. I will guard the installation so this blog may be a bit slowed down for the upcoming days.

The Trampoline event takes place on
Thursday, 12. October 2006
20h
Hebbel am Ufer, HAU 2
Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin

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Unsolved problems in physics: What causes the apparent residual Sunward acceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft?

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After the diet coke and mentos wave, there seems to be – may be – a new physics hype on youtube – namely the cornstarch and resonance monsters. This video is particular charming.

Remarks:
-I am not sure – but the origin of this goes probably back to this scientific video of the Center for nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Austin.

-the physics is connected to an earlier post called resonance rice and it is actually also a bit related to this earlier reported experiment of a macroscopic double slit experiment.

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A mathematical procedure has to be applied in order to get a final view onto the object. This time it is not radonge I am thinking about but rubik’s cube. However just as in radonge — rubik’s cube can be solved. And if you are to lazy for that you can use a robot:
watch Rubiks Cube Solver – a beautiful final project of University of Michigans EECS class “Design of Microprocessor Based Systems” by Doug Li, Jeff Lovell and Mike Zajac.