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Hoffman--Singleton Graph - Félix de la Fuente

Hoffman–Singleton Graph

This is the Hoffman–Singleton graph, a remarkably symmetrical graph with 50 vertices and 175 edges. There is a beautiful way to construct the Hoffman–Singleton graph by connecting 5 pentagons to 5 pentagrams.

1 February, 2016 in Graphs, Groups, Images Library.
Cairo Tiling - Tom Ruen

Cairo Tiling

The Cairo tiling is a tiling of the plane by non-regular pentagons which is dual to the snub square tiling.

15 January, 2016 in Images Library, Tilings.
Free Modular Lattice on 3 Generators - Jesse McKeown

Free Modular Lattice on 3 Generators

This is the free modular lattice on 3 generators, as drawn by Jesse McKeown. First discovered by Dedekind in 1900, this structure turns out to have an interesting connection to 8-dimensional Euclidean space.

1 January, 2016 in Groups, Images Library, Posets.
Kaleidocycle - intothecontinuum

Kaleidocycle

This image by intocontinuum show how you can take 8 perfectly rigid regular tetrahedra and connect them along their edges to form a ring that you can turn inside-out.

15 December, 2015 in Images Library, Polytopes.
Golay Code Using Great Dodecahedron - Greg Egan

Golay Code

The extended binary Golay code, or Golay code for short, is a way to encode 12 bits of data in a 24-bit word in such a way that any 3-bit error can be corrected, and any 7-bit error can at least be detected. The easiest way to understand this code uses the geometry of the dodecahedron, as shown in this image by Gerard Westendorp.

1 December, 2015 in Combinatorics, Groups, Images Library.
Gravity Plus Inverse Cube Force - WillowW

Newton’s Apsidal Precession Theorem

A little-known result in Newton’s Principia Mathematica is that by adding an inverse cube force to the usual force of gravity, you could change the angular motion of a planet while leaving its radial motion unchanged. This can have strange effects, shown in the animation here.

15 November, 2015 in Classical mechanics, Images Library.
Balaban 11-Cage - Félix de la Fuente

Balaban 11-Cage

This picture shows part of a graph called the Balaban 11-cage. A (3,11)-graph is a simple graph where every vertex has 3 neighbors and the shortest cycle has length 11. A (3,11)-cage is a (3,11)-graph with the least possible number of vertices. The Balaban 11-cage is the unique (3,11)-cage.

1 November, 2015 in Combinatorics, Graphs, Images Library.
Harries Graph - Koko90

Harries Graph

This is the Harries graph. It is a graph with the minimum number of vertices such that each vertex is connected to 3 others and every cycle has length at least 10. Such graphs are called (3,10)-cages.

15 October, 2015 in Combinatorics, Graphs, Images Library.
Balaban 10-Cage - Koko90

Balaban 10-Cage

This is the Balaban 10-cage, the first known (3,10)-cage. An \((r,g)\)-cage is graph where every vertex has \(r\) neighbors, the shortest cycle has length at least \(g\), and the number of vertices is maximal given these constraints.

1 October, 2015 in Combinatorics, Graphs, Images Library.
McGee Graph - Koko90

McGee Graph

This is the McGee graph. It is 3-regular graph, meaning that every vertex has 3 neighbors. It also has girth 7, meaning that the shortest cycles have length 7. What makes the McGee graph special is that it has the least number of vertices of any 3-regular graph of girth 7.

15 September, 2015 in Combinatorics, Graphs, Groups, Images Library.

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