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Cool math pics, including bicycle tracks and a cascade of bifurcations

Keith pointed me to these pictures on Curtis McMullen’s webpage. My favorite is this one (which I previously saw on Yuval’s door at Berkeley):

biketracks.gif

(Although I can’t figure out why it’s classified under Topology.)

There’s lots of other cool stuff there, including this cascade of bifurcations:

Cascade.gif

One Comment

  1. Bob O'Hara says:

    Yes, but what happend to the bicycle?

    Bob