Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 360 BC, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately ...
Earlier this year, a woman in Pennsylvania bought a nude charcoal sketch for $12 at a local art auction. Something about the depicted woman’s downward gaze, the hang of flesh around her waist seemed ...
“Bille” is the first-ever monostable tetrahedron, or a pyramid-like shape with four triangular faces that has one stable resting position. What this means is that Bille, no matter how you throw it and ...
Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
A four-sided shape that will always come to rest on the same side no matter what side it starts on has been built by mathematicians, decades after it was first proposed to exist. Mathematicians have ...
A toy called a tumbler is a toy with an egg-shaped hemisphere at the bottom, which stands up on its own even if it is tilted thanks to the weight at the bottom. A mathematician has not only ...
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an ...
With a drawing tablet, an artist can work in verisimilitudes of oil, watercolor or pastel paints, can retouch and enhance photographs with color and lighting and can also use AI to produce wonderfully ...
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Some might be wondering about Bryce Tetraeder, or Bryce P. Tetraeder, the CEO of Global Tetrahedron who supposedly purchased InfoWars from Alex Jones. This self-described entrepreneur, thought leader, ...