Exploration & Epiphany

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Sol Lewitt’s "Incomplete Open Cubes" and rediscovering Burnside’s lemma in group theory
This is a guest video by Paul Dancstep: https://youtu.be/JEeM2ABUMoo
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Thanks to the Wadsworth Atheneum for granting permission to use LeWitt’s notebooks.

Talks by Paul you can find online:

What is Category Theory:

How to Predict Eclipses:
https://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/video/how-predict-eclipses

Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests

Timestamps
0:00 – Incomplete open cubes
3:21 – Sol LeWitt
7:10 – Goofing around
13:12 – Size and symmetry
16:50 – Labelling things
22:34 – Lookalikes
28:02 – Probing for patterns
33:11 – Counting using lookalikes
35:50 – Epiphany
45:50 – Formalizing
49:51 – Reflection

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These animations are largely made using a custom Python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here:
https://3b1b.co/faq#manim

Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-3blue1brown

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