Portrait of the Artist as a Big Loser:
Robert Dickau

[The author, covered in vermin]

What’s new? (081116)

What’s old: [Travelogues] || [Art] || [Editorial] || [Mathematical Figures] || [Words] || [MSI Tips]

Travelogues

• Road Tripe! (all on one huge page, but arguably the best thing here)
• Starting What I Finished (epilogue; arguably the worst thing here)

Art

• Tired good coffee/bad coffee diptych
• Math coffee
• Not really art: Hypnotic Planes screen saver for Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP (about 25K)

Editorial

• Favorite and least favorite words and phrases
• Failures
• Lost Arts

Mathematical Figures

Fractals and Chaos

Cantor dust Sierpinski carpet Relatives of the Sierpinski gasket Julia sets Another Julia set Mandelbrot (and similar) sets Randelbrot set Menger sponge Sierpinski tetrahedron Newton’s method Variation on Newton’s method 2D L-systems 3D L-systems Lebesgue curves (and friends) Lebesgue curves in 3D Sierpinski arrowhead curve (and friends) in 2D and 3D Hilbert and Moore curves in 2D and 3D Wunderlich curves in 2D and 3D Bifurcation diagram Hénon attractor Lozi attractor Rössler attractor The chaos game Typeset fractals Chaotic magnetic-pendulum model

Combinatorics

Catalan numbers SVG versions: catalan7, catalan6, catalan5, catalan4; catsteps6, catsteps5, catsteps4, catsteps3, catsteps2. Permutation diagrams Derangements Stirling numbers of the first kind Stirling numbers of the second kind Bell numbers 2-D shortest-path diagrams Ditto, text version 3-D shortest-path diagrams 4-D shortest-path diagrams 5-D shortest-path diagram Self-avoiding paths through a grid or lattice Delannoy, Schröder, and Motzkin numbers SVG versions: motzkin5, motzkin4, motzkin3, motzkin2; delannoy3x3, delannoy2x2, delannoy1x1. Fibonacci numbers SVG versions: fibboard7, fibboard6, fibboard5, fibboard4, fibboard3, fibboard2. Euler zigzag numbers SVG versions: zz6, zz5, zz4, zz3.

Misc.

Web2 word graph Self-referential sentences Harmonic numbers and the book-stacking problem Polygonal numbers (from Eric Weisstein’s MathWorld) Billiards diagrams (in Ivars Peterson’s MathLand)

Frankly, you’ve passed everything that could possibly be of interest to someone who isn’t me; what’s below is primarily for the benefit of everyone except everyone-except-me.

Words

• Oxymorons
• Anagrams
• Mnemonic devices
• Oddities (quasi-tautonyms)

Hobbies

• Knowing my limitations
• Not doing the dishes
• Solipsism
• Spinning my wheels (“robbing Peter to pay Peter”)
• Buying can openers that don’t work (“can’t openers”?)
• Buffoonery, japery, insolence
• Suffering fools gladly
• Waiting and seeing
• Taking No for an answer
• Eating every meal at the Waffle House, when there’s one nearby
• Repeating myself (no, I won’t repeat this just for the cheap gag)
• Not working out
• Keeping it all bottled up inside
• Not knowing when to stop

¡¡¡Make Robert Smarter!!!

Heck, BE Robert!

What’s new (from this millennium, anyway):

081116: Fractal Wunderlich curves in 2D and 3D.
080629: World premiere of fractal 3D Sierpinski arrowhead curve.
080622: Fractal Sierpinski arrowhead curve and friends in 2D.
080511: Hilbert and Moore curves in 2D and 3D. Deleted quaint page-size notations (75K, 15K, and all that).
080426: Lebesgue curves (and friends), Lebesgue curves in 3D.
080403: Now this is just silly, but finally posted most likely final travelogue from 2006: A Room with a View of a Room.
080203: Added Schröder numbers, other updates to Delannoy, Schröder, and Motzkin numbers. Oh, and happy new year.
061231: Updated misc. MSI tips and notes. Oh, and happy new year.
060526: New stairstep-tiling interpretation of Catalan numbers.
060523: SVG versions of some Euler zigzag paths and Fibonacci tilings.
060514: SVG versions of some Delannoy/Schröder paths.
060430: Working on SVG versions of some math graphics (Catalan number and Motzkin number diagrams, for example). Watch this space.
050228: Disappointing new batch: When the Going Gets Tough, Tough, Interchangeable, and In Other Words...
050226: Disappointing reconstruction: Motor Skills.
050103: Working on involuntary travelogues When the Going Gets Tough, Tough and In Other Words... Watch this space.
040221: New facts and figures, words and numbers, dates and times, misc. cleanup.
030517: Exeunt: Flavor of the Decade.
030419: Almost there: The Next Big Nothing.
030413: Double revision: Untrainable (Dec. 2000), Tri-State (Oct. 2001).
030126: Need Anything? (from Feb. 2002; I’m semi-retired now, so for the foreseeable future these notes will be reconstructed from sleep-deprived memories.)
021027: Travel story, better lost than found: Signs.
021005: Nothing much: more good and bad words, general travelogue cleanup (with some new bonus stories hidden throughout).
020727: I can’t keep up! Here with the Wind, Trainerspotting.
020717: Say Uncle!
020714: I notice a pattern forming: Ne Pas Déranger.
020409: Updated failures.
020330: Started Lost Arts page.
020224: Some math corrections: fixed the Fibonacci formula, fixed the Lozi Attractor’s aspect ratio (though not the Hénon Attractor’s), and fixed the 5D paths to avoid taking shortcuts.
011210: Not worth the wait: two-parter Canadian Beauty and Encore Une Fois.
011117: From Denver: No Size Fits All.
011112: From Dallas, August: Artist Descending a Fire Escape.
011020: Tale from New York City: Being Here, Doing This.
010623: Relatives of the Sierpinski gasket. And before I forget: Requiem for a Lightweight.

Copyright © 1996–2008 Robert Dickau.
Hair by static electricity.
Remember: an interjection starts a sentence right.

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