Slashdot Mirror
Computational Origami and David Huffman
geeber writes "Here is an article about David Huffman's work in the mathematics of computational origami at the New York Times (soul sucking registration required). According to the article, computational origami, "also known as technical folding, or origami sekkei, draws on fields that include computational geometry, number theory, coding theory and linear algebra." David Huffman is also the inventor of Huffman coding used in MP3s and was mentioned prieviously here."
"Let's sue HIM too!!!" -RIAA
as /. performs computational origami on the server and fold it into a crumpled half-finished paper swan on the floor
--
Since he died in '99 he has become less involved.
Also, origami is not actually a new thing.
What Huffman was interested in was curved folds and stress points. Maybe it should be called Extreme Origami.
How many more slashdot frontpages before the NY times realise that by taking away registration, their advertising revenues will quintuple?
Or maybe they don't care about revenues! Maybe they just want our DATA?!?
Wait, wait.... sorry. It's the NEW YORK times! Silly me
May the Maths Be with you!
Be sure to join us next week as David Huffman invites us to take a peek into the exciting world of quantum flower arrangement. :p
Vry nfrmtv chptr on lssy cmprsn!
Look, when will you get it... God came up with a set of field equations he/she/it couldn't solve in closed form. Hence, he/she/it created a simulation to probe solution space. The particular incarnation we inhabit is a Monte Carlo simulation -- we just mis-interpret the random distributions as being consistent with some silly wave equation theory (quantum mechanics). Question is when will it be realized that there is a bug in the code and the simulation terminated?
kill -9 universe_sim
Did he fold your mattress into a swan?
Vry nfrmtv chptr n lssy cmprsn?
Thr shld b n 'n' n th wrd 'on'
John_Chalisque
You misspelled Xtreme.