Monday, September 1, 2025

Would you Like Some Fusilli with your Inverse Trig?

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I have a confession to make. I never really liked inverse trigonometric functions. I've had to help a number of students with them over ...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

Interstellar Lily Pads

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  I'll someday explain what this is, but for now just enjoy! (Well, this is ultimately a visualization blog. The math explanations are b...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Some Loxodromes

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Loxodromes are generated by curves of constant bearing on a sphere (always making a constant angle with circles of latitude). If you go in a...
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Saturday, November 28, 2020

The Uniform-Distribution-on-the-Sphere's Nemesis: Isothermal Coordinates

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Inspired by the last post where the conformal version of the polar grid is $(x,y) = (e^u \cos v, e^u \sin v)$ i.e. the radius is now exponen...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Happy Halloween from Nested Tori!

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Spooky greetings. A quick post with more complex analysis for you. Though maybe not as visually interesting as fractals, but getting back to...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Chaos Still Reigns!!

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A quick follow-on to last week's post . It would be blasphemous to talk about chaos without at least mentioning the most iconic fractal ...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

Chaos Reigns!!!

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  Chaos and fractals were all the rage when I was growing up, and was probably one of the major factors in getting me interested in math, pr...
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