Art Sunday: The spectacular Mandelbrot Set
The Mandelbrot Set, named after one Benoit Mandelbrot, who spent years studying and popularizing it. We at psnt.net are grateful for Wolfgang Beyer, who created these beautiful images and freely released them for the world to enjoy. Source of all images: Wikimedia Commons It’s Art Sunday again! This week we bring to you the Mandelbrot [...]
Happy Pi Day!
Pi (π) to 5,060 digits. Image source: The psnt.net Digital Graphics Squad (DGS) Dear Alert Readers, it has arrived: 3/14, Pi Day! So there they are, right up there, the first 5,060 digits of pi. That’s a lot of digits, sure, but you can see 10,000 here, 100,000 here or 1,000,000 here. If you’re really [...]
Operation midweek entertainment: the Möbius strip and you
It’s not an optical illusion, but it looks like one: the Möbius strip. Image created by Peter Gosling and featured among a host of fun optical illusions at Uniview Worldwide. The German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius was born on this day in 1790. So happy 220th, August! BEFORE YOU READ THIS POST, go scare up [...]
