{"id":726,"date":"2006-11-22T18:04:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T16:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=726"},"modified":"2006-11-22T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T16:04:47","slug":"lego-math-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"lego math again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img id=\"image725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/11\/costa.png\" alt=\"costa.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>again some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlipson.com\/mathlego.htm\">lego math visualization<\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAndrew Lipson creates sculptures of mathematical surfaces as LEGO models. He cheats a little bit by using some little c program to do the layout but then: there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldraw.org\/\">whole comunity<\/a> doing lego models by computer. My personal favorites are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlipson.com\/costa.htm\">Costa surface<\/a> (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~minimal\/archive\/finite\/costa\/costa.html\">here<\/a>) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewlipson.com\/boys.htm\">Boy surface<\/a>.<br \/>\n(found via <a href=\"http:\/\/math.ucr.edu\/home\/baez\/README.html\">John Baez&#8217;s page<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>again some lego math visualization<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}