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@foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

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Author, illustrator, designer and programmer: #origami, #MathArt, #tiling, #design, education and more

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710 Following

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Joined November 28, 2023

website:

https://www.foldworks.net/

Geogebra files to view and edit:

https://www.geogebra.org/u/tung+ken+lam

ORIGAMI From Surface to Form : full book to preview at the publisher's website:

https://woodenbooks.com/en/series/product/219-origami

foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 1w ago

A dolmen near busy roads in Galway, Ireland (Gaillimh, Éire) Is this an ancient dolmen or relatively new? edit: the consensus is that this dolmen is new(ish) -- see thread #StandingStoneSunday #photography #TravelPhotography #Galway #Ireland #AskFedi

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

A ceiling of hexagons (presumably inspired by a symbol of Manchester, the worker bee), Manchester Airport, England

#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #pattern #manchester

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

A square paving with hexagons, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia

The leaves and cracks almost look like small trees

#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #Yogyakarta #Java #Indonesia #OpticalIllusion

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

One photograph for both FotoVorschlag ('Touri-Hotspot / Tourist Hotspot) and MeerMittwoch: a sunset in Hạ Long Bay, Vietnam.

Hạ Long Bay ‘features thousands of limestone karsts and islets in various shapes and sizes, for which it is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a popular travel destination.’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1_Long_Bay

#Fotovorschlag #PhotoSuggestion #MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday #photography #seascape #skyscape #sunset #vietnam

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

Inside a building of the Shah-i-Zinda ensemble, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #Samarkand #Uzbekistan #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

An undulating window, Church of St Peter, Askham, Cumbria, England, a Grade II*-listed building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1145271

Apparently the windows were made like this to let more light in than ordinary windows. (The listed status means that any repairs or maintenance must put the window panes back in the same position.)

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #church #design #architecture #MathArt #tiling #photography #TravelPhotography

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz "Identical twins do not have the same fingerprints however, because even within the confines of the womb, the fetuses touch different parts of their environment, giving rise to small variations in their corresponding prints and thus making them unique." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#IdenticalTwins

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

A door set at an angle within its frame, Hay-on-Wye, Wales

#DoorsDay #DoorThursday #StainedGlass #FensterFreitag #Photography #geometry #design #TravelPhotography

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

A vintage pattern, District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #vintage #CapeTown #SouthAfrica

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

Based on a tiling seen in the Bahia Palace, Morocco. Made using Zellige App and Affinity Designer.

Photo of the tiling: @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

A similar but different tiling in the palace? https://www.dreamstime.com/full-frame-shot-moroccan-mosaic-bahia-palace-abstract-architecture-bahia-palace-marrakech-morocco-image273419858

A related tiling in Casablanca recreated in Zellige App: @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

#TilingTuesday #IslamicPattern #geometry #tiling #MathArt #pattern #CreativeToot #Zellige #zellij

foldworks: "Zellij floor tiles, Bahia Palace, Marrakesh, Moro…" - Mathstodon

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

A mosaic doorstep, Whitechapel, London, England

#MosaicMonday #mosaic #geometry #tiling #tessellation #MathArt #design #pattern #photography #TravelPhotography

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

An external tiling, Brick Lane Mosque, London

The whole tiling can light up at night (there's a photo near the end of https://bricklanejammemasjid.org.uk/gallery)

#TilingTuesday #geometry #tiling #MathArt #photography #design #TravelPhotography #IslamicPattern #IslamicArt #mosque

bricklanejammemasjid.org.uk

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@GerardWestendorp@mathstodon.xyz @simontatham@hachyderm.io One way to include the other elements: use the symbol with one fewer elements. Here's three elements with two-element dots. With seven elements, the dot could be the six-element symbol, but I've yet to find a good way to draw these. #geometry #MathArt #design #YinYang

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz It's kind of 'obvious in hindsight', but I didn't know it until considering a hypothetical in a murder mystery. Are twins the worst plot device in some stories, after time travel? (And I *like* some stories featuring twins or time travel 😆)

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@christianp @JimPropp I don’t know about rules, but the tiling on the left seems to have a clear structure. If colour is ignored, it has rotational symmetry of order 2. In fact, it’s as if the tiling on the right has been copied, split and filled with a horizontal band of two pentagons and two rhombuses. The tiling on the right was known by Dürer https://plus.maths.org/content/trouble-five and https://mathstodon.xyz/@foldworks/112711074311119074 #TilingTuesday #tiling #geometry #mathematics

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 9mo ago

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@anshthewad@mathstodon.xyz @GerardWestendorp@mathstodon.xyz @simontatham@hachyderm.io OK, here it is (this version uses minimal outlines) #geometry #MathArt #design #YinYang

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@jrmgx@mamot.fr @ellane@pkm.social The designer Ji Lee wrote "When I was a graphic design student many years ago, I had a class project to design a clock. ... I had the most obvious idea and designed this Redundant Clock. ... I found out that someone liked the clock so much, he made one and posted it on Reddit. The post was so popular, it became the number one post" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1859831505/redundant-clock The watch version is available at https://www.ttt-watches.com/products/ttt-moma-exclusive-redundant-watch #watches #clocks #design

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 15mo ago

A market stall of wooden signs, letters, numbers and other things, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011
#PhotoMonday #photography #FotoMontag #WoodType #type #typography #LetterForms #Lettering #design #GraphicDesign

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 11mo ago

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@johncarlosbaez To qualify, the downloaded works need to have been registered with the US Copyright Office before being downloaded. Unsurprisingly, many authors outside the US did not register their US copyright as registration is not needed in other countries (or their publisher could/should have registered the copyright but didn't). It costs about 50 USD per work. Copyright exists as soon as the work is created, but US registration is needed for US statutory damages. Without registration, there is a higher bar to receive statutory damages. (AFAIK, only the US requires copyright registration like this). As said elsewhere, this case is about Anthropic downloading from a shadow library -- training AI with copyrighted works appears to be fair use, so far. US copyright history would make an interesting (but different) post. (edited for clarity) #copyright #Anthropic

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@soaproot @Durcheinanderin @florine The windows are almost 200 years old, and the building has been listed for over 50 years, so some maintenance must have occurred. Apparently a few other buildings have windows like this. The first one I saw years ago but I didn't know what they were, and there was nobody around to ask about them (and I can’t remember where, either 😆 )

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 11mo ago

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@foxcj @johncarlosbaez It looks like the judge and lawyers for the class Action and Anthropic wanted an expedient solution. Some expect the class action lawyers to take 25% of the 1.5bn USD compensation. I can pursue my own case for my work that was downloaded, but they know that's unrealistic ☹️ From the FAQ https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/faq "Even though Anthropic downloaded approximately 7 million files from LibGen and PiLiMi, many of those files were duplicates of works, or unregistered works, or were empty, corrupted, or incomplete files. About 40% of the files Anthropic downloaded (approximately 3 million) were duplicates. Duplicate copies are not eligible to be in the Works List. Likewise, works not validly registered with the U.S. Copyright Office are not eligible to be in the Works List. Many of the works Anthropic downloaded were not registered. For example, non-English works have very low registration rates. Of the approximately 4 million unique works that Anthropic downloaded, around 2.5 million were written in languages other than English. Most of those 2.5 million non-English works were unregistered. In addition, many of the 1.5 million unique English works were not registered. And even among registered works, many failed to satisfy the date criteria in the Class definition, because registration occurred more than five years after publication or after Anthropic downloaded such works. Finally, many works failed validation tests. For example, the Works List does not include files that were empty, corrupted, or incomplete." #copyright #Anthropic

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@ngons Thanks, recreating the tiling made me appreciate the beauty of the original design and the skill of the artisans. Also, I found out that my original photo didn't show a big enough area, so had to look online for that -- but I found a subtly different tiling in the Bahia Palace. I'm not sure if my recreation is correct, or an amalgamation of the two tilings, or something else instead 😆

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 16mo ago

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@rasjor@mathstodon.xyz @nanma80@mathstodon.xyz Geogebra has a Net tool/command, but it lacks flexibility -- I guess the dedicated could edit the source code https://geogebra.github.io/docs/manual/en/tools/Net/ #geogebra #geometry #dodecahedron #animation #loop #polyhedron

geogebra.github.io

Net Tool :: GeoGebra Manual

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@jrmgx@mamot.fr @ellane@pkm.social The AI Overview (not asked for) for the reverse image search was almost entirely inaccurate: "The image shows a minimalist wall clock where standard hour markers are replaced with a single character or symbol repeated in different orientations. • The symbol at each hour position appears to be the letter "L" or the number "1". • The hands indicate the time is exactly 9:00. • The clock has a simple, modern design with a white face and a metallic rim. • The text "L 1 レー L" is visible in the top left quadrant of the clock face." #ai

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@beemoh I get 2001 Stargate (slit-scan) vibes

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@abuseofnotation@mathstodon.xyz @david@social.wub.site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

en.wikipedia.org

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foldworks @foldworks@mathstodon.xyz

· 16mo ago

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@rasjor@mathstodon.xyz I think Geogebra's strengths are in 2D and 3D Euclidean constructions (including inversion) but hyperbolic geometry would be beyond its built-in capabilities? #geogebra #geometry

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