chicken chicken -> celtic knotwork and Archimedian polyhedra

[jrtom]

Start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

(The last question at the end, and the response, are a riot IMO.)

From there you can read the paper if you like:
http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

(At least two of those references are to real papers, apparently.)

And if you decide that you want to know more about the person responsible, you then find this:
http://isotropic.org/

which has links to code for generating Celtic knotwork and models for Archimedian polyhedra.

Of course.

The noosphere is a wonderful place sometimes, really.

Comments

[pjack.livejournal.com]

Such wonderful nonsense!

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes.

OH MY GOD

[amnesiadust.livejournal.com]

I should NOT have watched this while trying vainly to eat dinner.

Miraculously, most of the food (incl. eggs, as it happens) still went down the right pipe.

At first I was like, "oh this is dumb", but then I caught the citations to "C & C '98" and "Ch '00" right as the audience really started to lose it, and it only got funnier from there.

Re: OH MY GOD

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

The citations were probably the second funniest part (especially now that I know that at least some of the metadata is from real papers). But I have to go with fdmts that the Q&A at the end is the best.

Re: OH MY GOD

[amnesiadust.livejournal.com]

That's kind of what I wondered. Did this guy take a real paper and just run it through a Chickenizer filter where normal words and abbreviations were replaced with the word "chicken"? Not that it would really be that hard to just make arbitrary chickenized flowcharts, graphics and equations from scratch...

Chicken

[fdmts.livejournal.com]

I loved the fact that he had a supplementary slide prepared for the question at the end.

I was recently at a talk where the speaker said something like:

"That is a brilliant question. 'Brilliant,' by the way, I am using in the technical sense. A 'good' question is one that I have thought about. An 'excellent' question is one to which I know the answer, and a 'brilliant' question is one for which I have a slide prepared. Brilliant question."

Re: Chicken

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

+1 :)