Exploding Kittens is a highly-strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players draw cards until someone draws an Exploding Kitten, at which point they explode, they are dead, and they are out of the game. UNLESS that player has a Defuse…
This configuration of thirteen sets of concentric circles grows out of an ancient tradition of visual alchemy. The faculties of imagination and intuition are employed as guides in the discovery of new and meaningful relationships between geometric…
No-one really knows what quasicrystals look like. But we do know, from the diffraction patterns of X-ray crystallography, that they bear a resemblance to Penrose tiling. By combining artistic exploration with mathematical insight into the…
Two Lenticular cards from Germany - one shows Pangea the last supercontinent 300 million years ago, and the second card shows the map of the globe in the next Heat Age when all the ice melts. This may result in a net gain in land!
My artwork, 'Golden Magic', especially created for G4G13 conference is dedicated to four remarkable men: Martin Gardner, Raymond M. Smullyan, Tom Rogers, and Al Seckel. Rich in golden mean proportions the composition consists of 13 elements placed…
A scissors and tape activity on a letter sized sheet of cardstock, for building a horocyclic model of the hyperbolic plane, with a postcard-sized memento of of our sculpture build attached.
A spectator, with good arithmetical abilities, opens an invisible safe and deposits some invisible coins in it. The magician has the spectator do some arithmetic, receives the final result and then correctly opens the safe and retrieves the correct…