[leoA4D]

and then those 20+ hour MWR renderings will seem short and sweet. See "Manhattan-Size Calculation: Mathematicians Map One Of The Most Complicated Structures", http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 090520.htm.

Thanks lebbeus; you pointed to the site with this article in your thread.

[lebbeus]

it's a great site isn't it!?

[leoA4D]

Yep. Nice find. I have it b'marked and will visit.

[Bubbaloo]

Link doesn't work for me...

Nevermind... I did a search and found it.

[lebbeus]

yeah--the article seems to have been removed from that site…

here's some other articles on the same 248-dimensional object:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17688055/

Scientific American

[Mattia Sullini]

A must have UV projector...

[dutch_designer]

One of the best mathematicians of the country explained in a tv interview yesterday how many computers you would need to solve the problem of finding the fastest route through 100 points, he called it the traveling salesman problem.
He then went on to say, that if every atom in the whole universe was a computer (!!!), and not just the fastest computer you can get now, but what we think now is theoretically the fastest computer possible, and if those computers would have started to find this fastest route (by trying every route possible, the brute force way) at the start of the big bang, that they would be about halfway through the problem by now... isn't that something??? It truly boggles the mind.

Getting the noise to clear in those dark corners of the room suddenly seems so much simpler

edit: here's more about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling ... an_problem