Spirals, scoops, sailing
Today was awesome.
I met a fun guy named Ned Gulley, who works at Mathworks. He showed me this great thing: Fermat’s spiral. He introduced me to the spiral by pointing out that KrazyDad did some amazing musical visualizations using this pattern. You definitely should look at these two in particular, to see the pattern at work:
- Whitney Music Box
(This reminds me of the Electroplankton Nintendo DS game.) - Fibonacci Logos screensaver from this post: “The motion in this screensaver is actually quite simple — if you look at each disc, you’ll see that it is just sitting in place, rotating at a constant rate. However, each disc spins slightly faster than the next largest one, which produces a series of very interesting patterns over about a 10 minute cycle.”
Very cool. Thank you, Ned!
- Whitney Music Box
- After dinner with my group, we went to one of the most comfy places in Cambridge, Toscanini’s ice cream, and I got the best flavor: ginger snap molasses. I asked my favorite ice cream guy how many scoops of ice cream is in each one of those big tubs. He said, “Well, I’m not totally sure… but… there are usually about three gallons of ice cream in each one… and each scoop is 6 ounces. ‘2 scoops’ is 8-10 ounces.”
First off, “2 scoops” ain’t 2 scoops! Who knew. (…although “2 scoops” doesn’t cost twice as much either, so I’m not complaining.)
I told him I would figure out how many scoops were in a tub and let him know. After some argument at the table over how many cups/ounces/monkeys are in how many gallons, we decided that the answer is about 75 scoops. (128 oz. x 3 gallons / 5 oz. = 75. ish.)
- Sailing and learning to sail at MIT are FREE! I hope to try it out this summer.
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