So I'm sitting in my office, bashing away at my keyboard, when a small parcel arrives on my desk. I wasn't expecting anything, I'm new here so it wouldn't be work-related, it wasn't just a letter but a small parcel containing an object quite clearly in the third dimension. Who on Earth would...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Digitally, colour can be defined by a set of values defining the level of Red, Green and Blue in each pixel. The number of values between "empty" and "full" denotes...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Pi (π), the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, is a mathematical phenomenon. It is found in a massive variety of fields such as statistics, geometry,...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. For systems of 3 ODEs (Ordinary Differential Equations), there are two ways of plotting the results of outcomes given initial conditions. The first is to plot each of...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. The single pendulum is a simple system to model, as it is simply the force of the weight of the bob acting with respect to gravity: Simple gravity pendulum diagram,...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Recorded sound is taken in analogue form, converted to digital form and stored as binary. The decimal numeric representation of each of the samples can be used to...
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. Around the time I started this project I became an avid Rubik's Cube solver. I practised lots and used to record my solve times using an Android app on my smartphone....
This post is one of a series of articles adapted from my university dissertation on data visualisation — see the rest of the series. School children are taught the order of the powers of ten the same way they are taught to count to ten, say the alphabet or recite their times tables. There is barely...
This is an extended version of an article I wrote for MSOR Connections magazine – which you can read online During the final year of my combined honours degree in Mathematics and Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) I received an invitation to a two-day Student Mathematical...
I've had a hectic week this week trying to get all my assignments in. I had a MATLAB assignment due in on Thursday and a Java one due in today. The MATLAB one involved two questions: the first was a banking system which calculated interest and mortgage payments; the second was an animation of a...
