Fonts as puzzles: Can you solve them?
A font created by Erik and Martin Demaine. The Demaines, a father-and-son team of algorithmic typographers, have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine and Katie Steckles via The New York Times.
by Siobhan Roberts
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The verb puzzle to perplex or confuse, bewilder or bemuse is of unknown origin. That kind of fits, said Martin Demaine, an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its a puzzle where the word puzzle comes from.
His son, Erik Demaine, an MIT computer scientist, agreed. Its a self-describing etymology, he said.
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A visitor studies Titians portrait, Benedetto Varchi, left, and Bronzinos Allegorical portrait of Dante, at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570, exhibit in New York, June 21, 2021. The sweep of Italian history and art history in dazzling portraits from the dynastys final hurrah, on view in a sumptuous exhibition at the Met. Diana Markosian/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Its hard to imagine Florence, cradle of the High Renaissance of early modern Europe, without its avaricious, venal, culture-conscious first family, the Medicis. Crowned and uncrowned, during periods of supposedly republican government and not, they largely ruled the city-state, or connived to, from the mid-14th to the mid-18th centuries, using art to cement their power. They excelled at banking and prospered especially when their Rome branch quietly became banker to the popes. They al
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Update (April 5, 2021): So it turns out that Adam Chalcraft and Michael Greene already proved the essential result of this post back in 1994 (hat tip to commenter Dylan). Not terribly surprising in retrospect!
My son Daniel had his fourth birthday a couple weeks ago. For a present, he got an electric train set. (For completeness and since the details of the train set will be rather important to the post it’s called “WESPREX Create a Dinosaur Track”, but this is not an ad and I’m not getting a kickback for it.)
As you can see, the main feature of this set is a Y-shaped junction, which has a flap that can control which direction the train goes. The logic is as follows: