Related areas of interest

• I have a wide experience of the UNIX environment and the X Window System.
• I administer Linux-based GNU boxes running XFree86 and GNU software (e.g. Emacs, gcc).
• I use the LaTeX Document Preparation System.
  • If you're interested in producing presentations with lots of maths in them then try using Prosper.
• I regularly use Mathematica.

My Erdös number is ≨ 5. Calculate yours by visiting The Erdös Number Project.

On my recent visit to Hong Kong, I spotted this glass sculpture which is possibly the largest Yoshimura pattern ever built (familiar to those who study cylindrical shell buckling). It's in the new exhibition centre on Hong Kong Island (video courtesy of Dr Arthur England of the University of Nottingham).

Still image (JPEG)

Movie clip (MPEG)
(includes a human for scale).

A Yoshimura pattern folded
from a flat piece of card.