A Penrose tiling is a non-periodic tiling generated by an aperiodic set of prototiles. Penrose tilings are named after mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose who investigated these sets in the 1970s. The aperiodicity of the Penrose prototiles implies that a shifted copy of a Penrose tiling will never match the original. A Penrose tiling may be constructed so as to exhibit both reflection symmetry and fivefold rotational symmetry, as in the diagram at the right. Penrose tilings were actually discovered by Islamic architects 500 years before Penrose, in the 15th century and were called G...
Yet it is a particular property of circles that one circle may be surrounded by six same-sized circles with no gaps and each outer circle touching three others, while the center touches all six.
@tchrist So this is what I meant: you can use other shapes, but they wouldn't be regular/simple. Bees spare their spittle and their space, but board games do not need to.
PanzerBlitz is a tactical-scale board wargame of armoured combat set in the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The game is notable for being the first true board-based tactical-level, commercially available conflict simulation (wargame). It also pioneered concepts such as isomorphic mapboards and open-ended design, in which multiple unit counters were provided from which players could fashion their own free-form combat situations rather than simply replaying pre-structured scenarios.
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PanzerBlitz was designed to simulate a clash between two company, regiment or smaller (n...
A wargame (also war game) is a strategy game that deals with military operations of various types, real or fictional. Wargaming is the hobby dedicated to the play of such games, which can also be called conflict simulations, or consims for short. When used professionally by the military to study warfare, "war game" may refer to a simple theoretical study or a full-scale military exercise. Hobby wargamers have traditionally used "wargame", while the military has generally used "war game"; this is not a hard and fast rule. Although there may be disagreements as to whether a particular...
Titan is a fantasy board game for two to six players, designed by Jason B. McAllister and David A. Trampier. It was first published in 1980 by Gorgonstar, a small company created by the designers. Soon afterward, the rights were licensed to Avalon Hill, which made several minor revisions and published the game for many years. Titan went out of print in 1998, when Avalon Hill was sold and ceased operations. A new edition of Titan, with artwork by [http://www.kmistudio.com/ Kurt Miller] and Mike Doyle and produced by Canadian publisher Valley Games became available in late 2008. The Val...
As is a subordinating conjunction, so it is hypotaxis. As to the name of this construction, I'm not sure there is any. Its just a subordinate clause with as followed by a main clause introduced by so. Perhaps it is the slight redundancy of so that makes it appear poetic; without so, it is a common construction: [just] as he had predicted, Stack Overflow the Trojans welcomed the great horse. — Cerberus4 mins ago
@JohnLawler He’s looking for something that’s morphologically distinct as a way of expressing counterfactuality, but finding it lacking in all verbs save be. Specifically, he’s looking for how to express what Spanish uses the imperfect subjunctive inflection (“Si funcionara/funcionase en esta manera...”) for in the protasis of a conditional, and the conditional inflection (“...me gustaría mejor”) in the apodosis. Some people do say “If only it worked” or “If it were to work” to try to convey that, but we really have no morphological solution beyond be — as well you know. He misses it. — tchrist7 mins ago
Dig up an ancient barrow in which were interred the bodies of royalty, bedecked with ornaments of copper, silver, and gold. Leave it long enough, and the bodies are dust, the copper corroded and the silver terribly tarnished, both essentially gone. But the gold is as bright as the day it was buried there.
Colorado’s capitol building’s domed exterior is covered in actual gold plating. You should see it catch fire as the rising sun’s first rays strike it first before anything else.
@tchrist Gold is the most malleable and ductile metal there is. I forget the exact dimensions, but an ounce of gold can be hammered out to something like an acre of surface area.
There's the old riddle: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? And the answer is, a pound of feathers (16 oz. per lb.), because they are weighed avoirdupois, while gold is troy weight, 12 oz. per lb.
> Seventy-five ounces of gold donated by AngloGold Ashanti and Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. was carried up the steps of the Capitol building Tuesday by mine employees — most of it in 140,000 leaves that each weighs no more than a mosquito.
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@tchrist The one used in gold plating such as on your dome.
@tchrist Nice!
> From what I understand 24k gold plating costs around $2-3.00 per square inch. See link goldplater.com/pricelist.htm . This is actually more reasonable than I thought but still expensive. You'd probably have upwards of $3k+ to do an entire engine bay of parts. Chrome is roughly about half this cost depending on the level of chrome.
The Gold lunula (plural: lunulae) is a distinctive type of late Neolithic, Chalcolithic or (most often) early Bronze Age necklace or collar shaped like a crescent moon. They are normally flat and thin, with roundish spatulate terminals that are often twisted to 45 to 90 degrees from the plane of the body. Gold lunulae fall into three distinct groups, termed Classical, Unaccomplished and Provincial by archaeologists. Most have been found in Ireland, but there are moderate numbers in other parts of Europe as well, from Great Britain to areas of the continent fairly near the Atlantic co...
It little profits that an idle Kit, By this still mouse, among these monitors, Match'd with an aged rig, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto these savage users, That click, and paste, and drag, and know not me.