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“now here’s something you’ll *really* like”… “that trick *never* works”

Posted by vlorbik on November 23, 2010


i’m actually kind of reluctant to post this;
it’s probably the best idea i’ve had since
i started making up lectures without words
and now it’ll be easy to steal. you saw it
here first.

the Big triangle is made up of seven Little triangles.
each Little has seven Points. moreover the Points
of each Little (considered as subobjects of their Little)
are arranged in the same pattern
as the Littles themselves are (considered
as subobjects of Big).

pick any Little and call it L1.
there are three dark points in L1.
find the three Littles that correspond
to these three Points.

(for example, let L1 be the lower-left Little;
the three Littles i refer to now run along
the right side of Big [just as the dark Points
run along the right side of L1]).

the three Littles in question are then
precisely those in which the Point…
P1, say… that corresponds to L1
(considered as a subobject of Big)
is dark. i’ll be here all week.

(it’s better with the handwaving.)

Posted in Graphics, Lectures Without Words, Zines | 8 Comments »

perhaps *this* will refresh your memory

Posted by vlorbik on November 23, 2010


pages 4 & 5 of MEdZ #0.9.

Posted in Graphics, Lectures Without Words, Zines | 1 Comment »

trying again dammit

Posted by vlorbik on November 23, 2010



Photo on 2010-11-23 at 14.05

Originally uploaded by vlorbik

the camera built into legion (= my mac-book)

broke a few months back (or the software

decided to mess with me… what amounts

to the same thing). so i haven’t been posting

photos. but my office at Big State U has a mac

and it turns out i still remember how (to make ‘em

and to post ‘em in this rather clunky way).

what we have here… but what *belongs*

in MEZB (i *told* you it was clunky)… is

a picture of the theorem P_2({\Bbb F}_5) \equiv P_2({\Bbb F}_5)^*

(“the two-dimensional projective space constructed

on the field with five elements is isomorphic to its own

dual space”).

i put it in a zine recently (along with diagrams for

P_2({\Bbb F}_2) and P_2({\Bbb F}_7);

{\Bbb F}_3 is left as an exercise).

Posted in Graphics, Zines | 1 Comment »

xkcd on college websites

Posted by vlorbik on August 4, 2010

coverage from IHE.

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not for auction

Posted by vlorbik on April 10, 2010



painting by me. i can’t quite do this kind of thing. yet.

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Photo 76

Posted by vlorbik on January 26, 2010



Photo 76

Originally uploaded by vlorbik

some day all this pointing and clicking will end.

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old man how you tarry

Posted by vlorbik on January 26, 2010

blagfuggit

Posted in Graphics, Net | 1 Comment »

 
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