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fivemackHave some pretty sphere-packing pictures:
Here they are. An evening's work, which I feel is probably a little more than it would have taken an actually competent mathematician, but hopefully adequately attractive.
I do not promise to hand over the Mars bar in person to any of my foreign correspondents who solves the problem, at least not with any unusual dispatch.
It also gives an optical illusion I hadn't seen before; the circle below is circular - rotate it in GIMP and overlay it on itself if you doubt me - but with the converging pink lines below it, it looks very squashed at the bottom:
Here they are. An evening's work, which I feel is probably a little more than it would have taken an actually competent mathematician, but hopefully adequately attractive.
I do not promise to hand over the Mars bar in person to any of my foreign correspondents who solves the problem, at least not with any unusual dispatch.
It also gives an optical illusion I hadn't seen before; the circle below is circular - rotate it in GIMP and overlay it on itself if you doubt me - but with the converging pink lines below it, it looks very squashed at the bottom:
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Date: 2004-08-11 07:14 am (UTC)I've just been sent some patches that ought to make OpenGL::Simple build on Win32; how soon a new version appears on CPAN may be a function of how dull the conference I'm attending next week is..