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Category: Applied math

  • My Midnight Rainbow Quest – Tougher Than I Thought

    I just looked a little deeper into some rainbow geometry and discovered that this challenge could be a lot harder than I first imagined. But for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a little history – The Facebook Quiz This all started with one of the little quizzes I…

  • Quiz: What Paper Size?

    Here’s another math problem inspired by real life! Each correct answer could earn you five dollars ($5) off any of our products or services (to redeem in person, just print and show your certificate).  Good luck!

  • Reflections – My Answer To "What's Wrong . . . Ver. 2"

    I recently posed the question “What’s Wrong With This Picture”blog about a modified landscape photograph of a foggy sunrise in Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Goodland, Florida. It turns out Deborah Gray Mitchell, one of the commenters, was right; the image was upside down. To be more precise, I flipped the image vertically…

  • Using Multiple Moulding Widths In One Frame

    revised 12/31/2021 In this article, the first of the “Weird Wood” seriesintro, we show how to build a picture frame using four strips of moulding that aren’t all the same width. Although Figure 2 uses a different width for each piece of moulding, we used three different sizes in our test frames (only because I…

  • Thoughts On Mat Layout

    The easiest and most common mat layout is one with the widths of all four borders equal. But if you are forcing a picture into a standard-sized frame, that’s not always possible. And then there’s the matter of bottom-weighted mats. Bottom-Weighted Mats Bottom-weighted mats, or the ones with the bottom edge wider than the others,…