Mathematical Butterflies - Neatorama

This is how a mathematician draws a butterfly: where r is the radius and is the angle. From Clifford Pickover's Computers and the Imagination.

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large version with colors reversed makes a beautiful
background for your monitor

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Probably meant "rho", the greek letter that looks like a p.

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erm, there's no "r" in the equation?

very pretty though

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Here's a funny spin on the same video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLDSE7RHvno

It's the Inception cat! LOL!

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I was afraid this would be one of those scary videos where something jumps out and scares you. Turned out to be the exact opposite! Hilarious.

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A decent cat video all around, I give it a solid 9.2

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Was thinking the exact thing as MadMolecule. This video proves my theory that cats are goofy

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No matter how bad a day I am having a stupid youtube video of a cat will always cheer me up.

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It has a ring of phoniness to it.

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I agree Ted...if you watch the movement of the bag hanging at the top left of the frame, it swings much more slowly when the cat moves. The video was slowed down to make the cat appear to be peeking verrrrry slowly.

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classic peeping Tom behavior.

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Totally fake.

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