Math Photo: A Complicated Packing Problem
This small section of rock wall conveys the challenge of arranging a collection of various shapes in an efficient, organized, way.
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Math Photo: A Most Mathematical Building
Here are some images from Harpa, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Harpa is home to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera, and is one of the most mathematical buildings I have ever seen. The face Read more…
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Brian. X · December 5, 2011 at 12:45 am
stacking like a ladder _
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Place a rock on the base, hammer it to the right, place another one above the previous one and hammer to the right, and repeat, then towards the end just pile upward.
I am more interested in how people moved that center rock? The material of the wall indicate the place, where the wall is built, is probably not urbanize. That rock in the center looks heavy. So how do they move it with out a machine?