Somewhere out there a tortilla maker is striving to make a perfect Cardioid Tortilla.
But there is still work to do.
Appreciation
Minus 10
There are probably a lot of things in this world that could use a Minus 10 button.
Appreciation Technology
Cool Graphs of Implicit Relations
This is a cool collection of graphs of relations using software called GrafEq:
http://www.xamuel.com/graphs-of-implicit-equations/
For example, at the right is the graph of
There are several other cool graphs displayed here.
It is worth noting that Wolfram Alpha can graph these relations, too. For example, here is the above equation:; while Wolfram Alpha captures the spirit of the graph, the image is not as detailed or attractive as the GrafEq version.
Appreciation
The World’s Only Computable License Plate?
Is this the world’s only computable license plate?
A little zooming in may be helpful.
For the record, this is approximately 5.999086179.
Appreciation Geometry Resources
Mathematical Image Galleries
This is an great website full of galleries of mathematical images:
http://www.josleys.com/galleries.php
There hundreds of beautiful images in many categories, like fractals, knots, spirals, and tesselations.
There’s even a gallery inspired by the techniques of M.C. Escher!