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First snow of the year

First snow of the year here in Brockenhurst – even we didn’t get away with it this time (we quite often do).  Taken with a fish-eye lens on the Canon 5D MkII at 8:00 a.m. this morning.

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IOM December 2010 – M38 [NGC 1912] an open cluster in Auriga

I always have a lot of trouble with my imaging at this time of year as there are so many great objects up there to be grabbed and I can only concentrate on one at a time.  Auriga is in … Continue reading

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Enneper’s surface high resolution

O.K. so it wasn’t quite the last post for a while 🙂  I just found how to get higher resolution (PlotPoints) working in ParametricPlot3D – now I’m happy!

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Klein bottle

Last one for a while now – the Klein bottle:

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Lissajou’s figures

I guess it is clear from these postings that I haven’t seen a clear sky in a long while 🙁  What is even more annoying is that I’ve just hooked the Sky 6 up to the C11 so I can … Continue reading

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Enneper’s (minimal) surface

Two views of Enneper’s minimal surface created in Mathematica:

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Things are starting to get chaotic

Bifurcation diagram:

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Boy’s surface

And as I’m on a roll – here’s another surface – this time it’s Boy’s surface:

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When in Rome

I have always been interested in mathematical shapes and surface which is the main reason for the Mobius Loop appearing below (I don’t really think it has anything to do with the structure of spacetime).  However there have been a … Continue reading

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Mobius spacetime

Is our Universe a 4-dimensional Mobius Loop giving the appearance of an infinitely large structure? Mathematica produced 3-dimensional surface with x= (1+0.5 v * Cos(0.5u))*Cos(u)  y=(1+0.5 v * Cos(0.5 u))*Sin(u)  z=0.5 v * (Sin 0.5u)

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