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# Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected

@inproceedings{Pickover1992MazesFT,
title={Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected},
author={C. Pickover},
year={1992}
}
19 Citations
Marbles and Bottles-or Boxes illustrate Irreversibility and Recurrence
• Mathematics, Physics
• 2018
Imaginary assemblies of intercommunicating bottles-or boxes, in which marbles circulate performing random walks, can help modeling (and hence understanding) slow and long-lasting diffusion processesExpand
A note on visualizing the Omega Prism
This note describes computer graphics used to gain insight into the behavior of the solution space and graphically interesting behavior of puzzles defined on finite lattices. Expand
Is the fractal Golden Curlicue cold?
• C. Pickover
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• The Visual Computer
• 2005
The thermodynamic properties of various plane curves are described. Computer graphics and computational recipes are included to encourage reader involvement.
Lava lamps in the 21st century
Simulations involve “twisted majority rules” computed using a 3-D cellular automation lattice described in this paper, which can be used to decorate living rooms of the future with computer displays of colorful and undulating lava-like forms. Expand
Mandalas, screws, pears, and Klein bottles
Random number generators: Pretty good ones are easy to find
• C. Pickover
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• The Visual Computer
• 2005
Simple graphical techniques are introduced for assessing the quality of the generators with little training and computational recipes are included to encourage reader involvement. Expand
Self-reproducers use contrapuntal means
• 2002
By evolving self-reproducers, found in two-dimensional Cellular Automata rules, we obtain fractal-like objects. This paper focuses on analyzing the fractal features of different self-reproducers andExpand
The Knight's Tour Problem as a Conceptual Tool for Interdisciplinary Studies
The ''Knight's Tour" problem, to move a knight on a chessboard so that all sixty-four squares are occupied only once, was originally used by the author to explore 2-D designs and 3-D constructions.Expand
The Poincare-Hardy Inequality on the Complement of a Cantor Set
• Mathematics
• 2002
The Poincare-Hardy inequality on the complement of the Cantor set E \int {\frac{{\left| u \right|^2 }}{{dist^2 \left( {x,E} \right)}}dm \leqslant 4K^2 \cdot \int {\left| {\nabla u} \right|^2 dm}Expand
Iamascope: a graphical musical instrument
• Computer Science
• Comput. Graph.
• 1999
The Iamascope combines computer video, graphics, vision, and audio technology for performers to create striking imagery and sound with this aesthetically uplifting interactive device. Expand