I am so tired! Four days of taking classes and teaching a class. Ordinarily that would be fine except that I had to drive hundreds of miles for these classes. But I completed them all successfully. Now I have a rainy day off — to watch taped soaps, play with photos, make brownies for tonight's anime movie at the library and read. Today I changed the exposure values on copies of the original flames that I created in Oxidizer, imported the exposures to Photomatix and created HDR images. This image isn't any better or worse than the original, so I doubt I will play like this again.

Friday Fractal

I have an interest in fractals  (shapes that are self-similar). I have moved on to making fractal flames, which you see here. Several bloggers have asked me how to make these flames, so I spent Saturday writing a tutorial for using Oxidizer, the Macintosh fractal flame software. You can see the tutorial here if you are interested. I already need to update the tutorial because I learned more about using the software Sunday when I created these images.

The Math Less Traveled: Carnival of Mathematics #23: Haiku Edition
Drop by and peruse the 18 articles that were submitted (yes, one of mine is there, too). As always, they are fascinating. Two posts about fractals, which is my new thing to play with. And one I have to read: interesting things about the number 2008.

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Carnival of Mathematics #22 » Fun Math Blog

My binary card number trick is there. There are 15 other excellent articles and it will take me about two weeks to get through all of them. Which reminds me: I have information that should have gone into my binary cards post that I forgot about. I'll post it after my Mac is home. After Christmas. Be sure to submit your article for the next Carnival of Mathematics #23, which will be on December 28th at The Math Less Traveled.

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Carnival of Mathematics #21: Bar-hopping at last: Secret Blogging Seminar

Be sure to go take a look. I'm there.

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Carnival of Math #18: JD2718

Infinity, fractal patterns in the Kalahari, the problems with calculators, T3 conferences (an idea that I always suspected!), college math instruction, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic in sixth grade (I've done that!), the crossing number inequality (I have to do that), gifted and talented education (I went from Connecticut, where GAT was important, to Vermont, where GAT is ignored), a LOLCat?, NCLB assessments (my post!), polyhedra paper folding (a blogging friend), Diophantine equations and the products of digits (I participated!), another Pythagorean Theorem proof (got to check out that one), why is the US outta TIMSSA (we all know, right?), and many many other wonderful topics.

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MathNotations: Seventeenth Edition of the Carnival of Mathematics: "At Seventeen, I Learned the Truth"

I'm mentioned in the carnival! Jonathan at jd2718 submitted my post about Paula's math knitting project. You should check the carnival out because there are a lot of interesting articles posted.

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