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Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11
00_NOP writes "Venn diagrams are all the rage in this election year, but drawing comprehensible diagrams for anything more than 3 sets has proved to be very difficult. Until the breakthrough just announced by Khalegh Mamakani and Frank Ruskey of the University of Victoria in Canada, nobody had managed to draw a simple (no more than two lines crossing), symmetric Venn diagram for more than 7 sets (only primes will work). Now they have pushed that on to 11. And it's pretty too."
You have a good point. I went through the same phase myself when I was around 8 or so, built strange contraptions. A lot out of lego, but really whatever I got my hands on. Pneumatics, record players, things were spinning, twisting and turning. My mother used to ask me what it was, and I would just happily say I had no fucking clue, but hey, at least it looked cool.
I grew out of it though. Building things with absolutely no practical implementation can be amusing, but once we grow to a certain age we like to at least have some thin veneer of reason behind things... Like the one button party mode room someone built, that I'm sure they've gotten to use often... to demonstrate it, and then promptly turn it off. But we don't tend to brag about it if we do something completely useless.
Well, I guess you might, being an anonymous coward, but those of us who dare stand for our opinions don't tend to.