Showing posts with label pi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pi. Show all posts

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Tau

Hallo hallo!

How is everyone? Had a good week? :)

 On Saturday morning I made a lovely Tau - although most people would call it a Pie (or Pi). However, I call it tau because pi needs to be multiplied by two to make it a whole, while tau is just a whole. So that would mean a pie is actually half a Tau. Understand?

 I made some pastry on Friday (500 grams of flour, 250 grams of butter, and some salt and about a cup of water), and then on Saturday morning I put the oven to about 200 and then started browning the mince. I added some stock to the mince, then put in the carrot and potato that I'd diced into it.

 I halved the pastry and rolled out one to fit the tray. I rolled out the other half and cut a bit off to make the Tau sign.
 When the filling was ready I scooped it into the tray and ate what couldn't fit for breakfast. I put on the top of the Tau and added the Tau sign, then popped it in the oven whilst I got ready to leave for my circus class. When I had finished getting ready I turned off the heat and left the Tau in the oven.

 When I got home it was perfect, and I had a piece of it. It was so good cold, I don't want to have it warmed up!!

 Well, it was soon gone come Sunday evening. Here's the pictures of it:









Let me know if you make your own Tau! (or Pi!!)

Friday, April 27, 2012

Fibonacci and Geometric Doodling

A friend posted this on facebook recently- and it took us on a mathematical doodle journey.  It's just wonderful for all sorts of geometrical patterns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0&feature=youtu.be

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I believe that this was a link to Vi Hart's youtube channel which now seems to have gone.  If you do a search a few of her things still come up, but most of them are now gone.  The whole family were huge Vi Hart fans, and Willow was inspired to do some interesting geometric maths thanks to Vi.


Willow's Tau Pie.

Doodles.


More hexaflexagons.
https://unicorn-pegasus.blogspot.com/2020/09/term-2-lockdown-and-winter-solstice.html

After some more searching I have discovered that Vi Hart moved to vimeo.  This is a really amazing resource for art/maths/music.  She covered quite a diverse range of areas in her mathematical doodlings.
https://vimeo.com/vihart

Whilst trying to find out what had happened to her and her work I discovered that her Dad works in geometric sculptural designs and he has some interesting resources too.