This post presents three simple math/art visualizations having to do with music and sound. All three were made for Bob Bosch’s Math Art class at Oberlin College in Spring 2022, and inspired by material covered in Chris Marx’s Spring 2022 Harmonic Analysis class.
These three visualizations are meant to be fascinating even if you do not understand the underlying math and music. But I will explain the concepts behind each of them and justify why I think they are interesting.
Around two months ago, I created my own twist on the game Wordle. Zerodle is a variant of Wordle, inspired by the likes of Quordle and Sedecordle. Each of these games presents a certain number of Wordle puzzles which must be solved simultaneously with the same guesses. Zerodle takes this concept to the extreme, with a grand total of zero different Wordle puzzles, all of which must be solved at once.
This past Sunday, May 22, I ran in the Cleveland Marathon. And it went very well! When I ran in the 2019 Cleveland Marathon, I struggled due to poor pacing and heat, but this time neither of these were an issue.
So The New York Times just bought Wordle. This is not surprising, but it’s definitely disappointing. Wordle is an uncommonly successful small project in a Web dominated by large corporate platforms, and its acquisition only leads us further in that direction.
I’ve posted two mashups on my YouTube channel. The first, in 2018, was a combination of “Feel It Still” by Portugal. The Man. and “Genghis Khan” by Miike Snow. The second, last week, is a mix of “good 4 u” by Olivia Rodrigo and “gec 2 Ü” by 100 gecs. It received a comment asking how I make a mashup, so here we are. This one’s for you, Antonioio What’s a mashup?
This utter nonsense has been bouncing around in my head since Friday.
I have twenty minutes between computer science classes for lunch. I am a CPU looking to make a turkey and cheese sandwich as fast as possible, so that I have enough time to eat.
This is a reflection on my Winter Term project this year. There’s a small portfolio at the bottom. You can skip to the portfolio if you wish.
Going into this Winter Term, I thought I couldn’t draw. But the drawing book I used (Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards) met me there and helped me make a lot of progress. More than just teaching me to draw, the book taught me how to see. It helped me see edges, perspective, size relationships, and light and dark, and translate that to the page.
This is a short rundown of albums that came out this year that I liked. One of them is secretly an EP but it still made the list. Featuring NNAMDÏ, Dua Lipa, CHIKA, Tall Tall Trees, Anjimile, and Luke Titus.
About a year ago, I watched Frozen Ⅱ four times in one day, which was in a sense a feat of movie-related endurance. This year, I did something else: I watched one movie per day for the entire month of November. Here are exactly five words about each one: