An Enigma Machine combined with a Rubik's Cube makes an encryption device with unprecedented power.... 更多内容 >>

My recent obsession with cubes in this blog has led me back to Rubik's cube, perhaps the greatest mathematical puzzle of all time.... 更多内容 >>

A few months ago, I had never heard of Karl Menger or the cube-like fractal that he invented. Now I have this long blog post about the sponge, and an extension that I am calling its "associate".... 更多内容 >>

The complement of an evolving Menger sponge is all of the material that has been removed so far.... 更多内容 >>

Season's Greetings 2021 __________________________________________________________Marc Lätzel (2021). XMas Tree (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9337-xmas-tree),MATLAB... 更多内容 >>

On a recent visit to Ann Arbor, I met ten-year old Eden Rajapakse. Here is her sketch of the L-shaped membrane. Download Live... 更多内容 >>

The Menger sponge is a popular fractal that generalizes Cantor sets and Sierpinski triangles. Its fractal dimension is between two and three.... 更多内容 >>

Matrices in action.... 更多内容 >>

Use a cube instead of the Utah Teapot in my previous post. I was pleasantly suprised by the final screen shot.... 更多内容 >>

Matrices like the ones shown in the following screen shots are at the heart of computer graphics. They describe objects moving in three-dimensional space. MATLAB's Handle Graphics uses them. So does MathWork's new RoadRunner editor. And so do all popular video games and CAD packages.... 更多内容 >>