Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 21/09/2026Another view showing the vertices. You can play with the app here: www.mjmtools.com/webgl/tutori... Beware it is not professional quality, I hacked up a little WebGL tutorial 5 or six years ago while exploring the "Rhombic Triacontahedron" with my Dad 020
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 21/09/2026Quick showcase of one of my favorite shapes, the Tetartoid - a polyhedron with 12 identical, irregular pentagonal faces. It occurs in nature in the mineral Cobaltite. I love it because it sits right on the line, visually, between natural and geometrical. Views from my basic "polyhedron modeler" 120
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 19/09/2026Quote post this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe. 020
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 18/09/2026What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you've seen it? 020
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 16/09/2026I wrote a little JavaScript program to model a puzzle that my dad had called “The Great Meteor” - I have no idea if that is some kind of official name for this pattern, but as you can see each “face” of the octahedron is the Q-Bert pattern (6 instead of 7 though) 100
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 13/09/2026Reminds me of the Mac terminal version of the old commodore 64 maze: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 010
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 03/09/2026As a bonus here's the Ulam Spiral cycling through each frame with a 1º increase turn into 3D, off of the XY plane. The view remains stable, with the screen co-planar with the XY plane. Tons of weird shapes and "symbols" appear - what could it all mean? Likely nothing! But it looks cool :) 100
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 03/09/2026This is what happens when you draw a line connecting all of the points in the Ulam Spiral together in order, it looks like an old-school vector graphics video game scene 121
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 02/09/2026Some interesting mollusk-like shapes produced by my spiral application. This is the "simple" spiral in 3D mode at 8M iterations - too slow to animate nicely, but the stills look amazing. Link in the reply to see for yourself, decrease the iteration count to animate #MathArt 120
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 02/09/2026I increased the dot size, the compression on the video made some of the details pretty hard to see. 000
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 24/08/2026I'm having trouble comprehending that something that big can be lumpy - I mean according to this image the "lumps" are bigger across than the entire Earth orbit around the Sun 🤯 000
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 24/08/2026No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky in your camera roll 030
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 21/08/2026I jumped on a variation of this a couple of years back, got a sticker too 🙌 020
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 13/07/2026I was pretty enthralled with this one in Auckland on the volcano trail (can't remember the real name) in front of (I think) the military museum. It was like nothing I'd ever seen 010
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 01/07/2026Bought based on your cover alone :) I went deep on number spirals a while back and it's become a fun pastime. 111
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 17/06/2026Name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you Manimal 120
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 09/06/2026Got the correct answer twice then changed the query to “who sang the national anthem at the nba finals game tonight” and got the bad answer. Just insane that we just shrug our collective shoulders at this shit 1142
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 08/06/2026Another mesmerizing one, you get endless subtly different effect just by changing the starting theta and phi angles - I think this one was originally 67 and 76. We are seeing the shape looking straight down onto the XY plane, when rotated you find that it is a hockey-puck shaped disk. 100
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 03/06/2026A particularly beautiful spiral a new "checker" came up with 130
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 02/06/2026I think my mental scars from this are worse than internet brain poisoning - I can't go back 0280
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 27/05/2026I've become re-obsessed with my "number spirals" app (no AI! Just simple math), check out this one, link to explore yourself in alt text: 130
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 19/05/2026Awesome! I used to have a light fixture that produced some neat ones 050
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 16/04/2026post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it): 151
Max Mammel @mjmtools.com · 11/02/2026Just yesterday, with the latest greatest ChatGPT model, was steaming along on a complex bit of threading code when it dawned on me that the damn thing made a bad inference, and the process of proving it negated all of my time savings. The tech is fundamentally prone to error, and always will be. 020