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On the computer graphics side of things, there's a 2006 paper based on essentially the same underlying idea: video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOvYyJ6r1c paper: https://grail…

Ahh, neat! That sounds like it results in some nice patterns. In that case, this paper might be more relevant http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/pad/pad.html . Its related w…

This doesn't quite answer the question that you're asking, but there's a semi-old research paper that seems related to what you want: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/csk/projects/esche…

A bit of context: Marjorie Rice achieved minor fame for discovering a number of new ways that (irregular) pentagons can tile the plane -- a surprising feat for an amateur mathemati…

For those who haven't seen the language before, I think it's also useful to know what expression evaluation in Icon works using a recursive backtracking algorithm. This means that …

I expect the article doesn't mention them because it views them as a means to an end. Since the article is about high-level philosophical concerns and not the nuts and bolts of how…

I expect that this article's title will give some Hacker News readers an incorrect impression of what it's about. As the article mentions, this talk was given at the Donaueschingen…

I don't know of any science in this area yet, because everything I'm aware of is far too speculative to be called "science". That said there is some science-aware philosophy in thi…

I've always noted it as Sigma_loop, since it's basically the busy-beaver function for a programming language with no recursion and in which the bounds of every loop must stay fixed…

Hey all, puzzle poser from the Povray thread here. If you want a somewhat trickier version, try giving the last five digits of the case where you have 100 nested loops (instead of …