Tag: Cube Coloring

Raiders of the Lost Articulation

Tom Hanks as Indiana Langdon in Raiders of the Lost Articulation : An unarticulated (but colored) cube: A 2x2x2 articulated cube: A 4x4x4 articulated cube built from subcubes like…

Cube Koan

  From Don DeLillo's novel Point Omega — I knew what he was, or what he was supposed to be, a defense intellectual, without the usual credentials, and when…

The Abacus Conundrum*

From Das Glasperlenspiel  (Hermann Hesse, 1943) — “Bastian Perrot… constructed a frame, modeled on a child’s abacus, a frame with several dozen wires on which could be strung…

Sunday August 17, 2003

Diamond theory is the theory of affine groups over GF(2) acting on small square and cubic arrays. In the simplest case, the symmetric group of degree 4 acts…