Tuesday, May 23, 2017

mathematics - Chaos and Order: a visual puzzle in stained glass


I created a visual puzzle, which my wife then implemented as part of a stained-glass window. I've no idea if it is (a) obvious, (b) stupid or hopefully (c) extremely clever, and hence would love to hear your opinion.


Here's a photo. What does it represent?


Order and Chaos



Answer




Solved it! Spoilers ahead:



Superposition of blue and yellow






It's a combination of two numbers represented in yellow and blue panes, with green panes indicating where they overlap. The blue panes give the digits of $\pi$ (3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5) and the yellow panes are the digits of the first Feigenbaum constant (4, 6, 6, 9, 2, 0, 1, 6, 1).



P.S. I think this window is brilliant :-)


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