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The paper says: "What did appear as a challenge, though, was a physical realization of such an object. The second author built a model (now lost) from lead foi
by ColinWright 1y ago
The paper says:
"What did appear as a challenge, though, was a physical realization of such an object. The second author built a model (now lost) from lead foil and finely-split bamboo, which appeared to tumble sequentially from one face, through two others, to its final resting position."
I have that model ... Bob Dawson and I built it together while we were at Cambridge. Probably I should contact him.
The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19244 https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19244
The content in HTML is here: https://arxiv.org/html/2506.19244v1 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.19244v1
- s4mbh4 1y agoWould be awesome to see some pictures!
- ColinWright 1y agoI've knocked up a quick page: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/ZimExpt/MonostableTetrahedron.html https://www.solipsys.co.uk/ZimExpt/MonostableTetrahedron.htm...
- gus_massa 1y agoI was expecting to see the photos, but the jpg are linked there instead of visible. IIRC you were using a self-made CMS for your blog, with more support for math formulas. Does it not allow images?
- ColinWright 1y agoEveryone complains about how crap my website is, so in this case I've just exported a page from my internal zim-wiki. Yes, it can have photos, but it doesn't give any control over sizing or positioning, so I'm providing links for people to click through to. It's the middle of my working day and I'm in the middle of meetings, so I don't have time to do anything more right now.
- bbkane 1y agoThanks for posting! I'd love a YouTube video too if you get the time later
- jabiko 1y agoTo be fair, I don't think there is anything wrong with clickable links instead of embedded images.
- SoftTalker 1y agoI don't mind the image links. The text weight and contrast could use some work.
- mzs 1y agoYour site is fine, thank you very much, I was not able to able to save it in the internet archive though: https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.solipsys.co.uk/ZimExpt/MonostableTetrahedron.html https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.solipsys.co.uk/ZimE... "Save Page Now could not capture this URL because it was unreachable. If the site is online, it may be blocking access from our service."
- ColinWright 1y agoInteresting ... and baffling. I've simply exported that from the zim wiki, not doing anything special, so I have no idea why the internet archive would complain about it. And it's the other part of my site that people complain bitterly about: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ColinsBlog.html?yf26hn https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ColinsBlog.html?yf26hn
- StimDeck 1y agoDo you leave it that way out of spite? lol
- rstuart4133 1y agoThat really is a MVP. Or perhaps MVD (Minimum Viable Demonstration).