The stores switch to Mithraic themes after Halloween, focusing on Saturnalia mixed with Biblical themes, and by Biblical I mean to include the BC parts. I'm thinking to focus on
- "ornaments" (polyhedra), roping in the New Years Ball (which I presume will be the usual n-frequency icosa-sphere, but I should double check), and
- Peace on Earth with ample use of the peace sign decal.
One of the torches I carry, meaning content I consider worth passing on to coming Gs, is that of Waterman Polyhedra.
Steve Waterman and I were early collaborators on his conception of a sequence of polyhedrons of growing complexity, meaning of increasing numbers of verts and edges, as one goes more and more outward, increasing the radius. All the verts are IVM (CCP) balls, let's assume a nucleated packing.
We employ a convex hull finding algorithm to maximize its roundedness (minimize convexity) to pick up all verts less than or max radius from the nuclear ball.
The Peace on Earth = Promised Land meme will be familiar to some of my readers as it pops up in these blogs pretty consistently.
I'm starting to look back on 2025 already, grateful for friends and fellow faculty I've crossed paths with.
