Terrific Toothpick Patterns - Numberphile 

@Dr Deuteron life is as lie. Lol

Azzy that was a beautiful way of breaking down their dynamic.

mathematicians just think “hey it would probably be cool if i did this” then they do it and then later realize “hol up, this is actually useful!”

Instablaster

@Azariah My former high school’s maths teacher, Hannu Sinisalo, famously said: ”The less mathematics has to do with reality, the better. It’s not necessary to have anything to do with truth, anyway.”. 😅

I caught that too. He was almost reverent when he said it, loving the challenge and mystery as much as the beautiful solutions. That was my favorite part of the entire video.

It's particularly exciting to *almost* understand things, even if you're actually nowhere near it

omg I first read that as Parker going to space... then had the image of the space station come to mind... all those square spaces and a Parker in them... woe betides the ISS

A hojillion toothpicks in formation in low Earth orbit. What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, but he'd probably mess up somewhere and then we would end up with a Parker square on one of the corners.

Then Parker toothpic is on its way..😂😂

If there's a way to approximate/calculate pi that way, he might just do that.

Aciek25 he should narrate some bedtime stories.

@@halberdier25 Yes (yes, hmm)

He has an excitable wizard feel, that's for sure.

He's like a soft-spoken professor Farnsworth

Tadashi Tokieda has a great deep voice. IMO, he has the best ASMR voice on this channel.

Is he still alive?

@@samueldeandrade8535 he's still going at 84 years young.

@@andrewince8824 thanks Math. And thanks rock climbing. Hahaha.

You need to listen to him with headphones. Wonderfully well spoken and passionate.

it's called asmr

Creepy

Gollum

3:52 😁

@@philadams9254 You could call it *passionate*

It kinda scared me a bit xD

Me too. It's possibly how it all started.

That sort of thing happened to me with Matt Parker’s video on pouring equal-strength cups of coffee from the same pot. I remember having OCD symptoms as a kid, (I’ve gotten them over them since then), so when I would tap one of my feet by accident, I would feel compelled to tap the other. But, since I tapped one first, let’s say my left one first for example, I would feel compelled to tap them both again, but with the right one first. But, because the _first_ first tap was with my left foot, I would have to do the same sequence of tapping, but flipped in order to even things out, and this would go on as long as I could keep track. Altogether, I ended up with a sequence going something like LRRLRLLRRLLRLRRL... The sequence was mentioned in one of Matt Parker’s video as the best way to “even out” things given certain conditions.

@@mvmlego1212 exactly like me. I ve gotten over it too, even if not completely. For example, when I'm programming, everything has to follow a certain order, similar constructs must be aligned, no memory leaks must be present or I can't leave my programming session and so on (which is not necessarily a bad thing, since i'm still in control). But when i was a kid, i had the same "tics" you described, plus many others, and "almost" couldn't resist them (almost because i didn't even try really). For example if i was going down a spiral staircase, i used to count how many times i rotated until I've come to the end, and rotate that many times in the opposite direction. When i noticed that things were starting to go out of control, like long sequences to balance everything out as you described, i said: I'm gonna provoke everything that i hate on purpose, and unbalance it as much as i can, let's see what happens. Nothing. Never had the strong need since then. Only difference with what you wrote is that my sequences were a little different. For example, i touch the wall with my right hand, using a force on a scale 1 to 10 of 5. I have to do the same with the left. I try, but hit with force 7. Now i have to do right 7 and left 5. I do left 5, but right 6, and so on.

I also started bored doodling the drawing what they call the toothpick pattern for more than 15 years and maybe more than 20, and analyzing it to see if it contains anything useful. I have never cared how many lines there were a n-iterations (like this wonderful video). Until seeing this video today, I thought I was the only one.

@@mvmlego1212 you should have taken up drums in band

It is basically modular arithmatic. It works as long as the neighborhod is symmetrical so hexagonal, triangular, exctended Neumann neighborhood ... all work.

Was this the simulator linked to in the video or a different one? I'd like to give that a spin!

„FARNSWORTH“

My sides!

I felt kinda bad for laughing but he does have that charm. I love to hear him talk. "just a slice" 13:22

*They Form a Certain Shapes and “Copy/Replicate themselves ”* ; *We No*

YES!

Artifexian love you, love your videos

This was exactly my first thought. I immediately thought of taking these patterns and applying color to them.

Didn't expect to find you here!

Jeej, a dutch artist

Are you aware of an artist called A Michael Noll? He made some of the earliest computer art, one of which was a series of versions of a Mondrian painting

For sure

asmr

The Bob Ross of power of 2 patterns

Creepy!

@@LuisAlonzoRivero That is the weirdest descriptor that I can remember agreeing 100% with.

The resemblance is there, despite that he's not British.

@@jivejunior8753 He is. He's British-American. Born in Wales

The Parker Love

hooray - we got there in the end!