Math Meets FSM July 15, 2010

Math Meets FSM

By Guest Contributor
July 15, 2010

M.C. Escher would have been proud.

Mark Dow created a tessellation featuring the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

Wow. Colorful and gorgeous. The enlarged version looks even better.

If you really want to geek out, here’s the math behind how he created it.

When I buy a house, I know how I’m tiling my floors now.

(via Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster)

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  • Bob

    I think Martin Gardner would be impressed as well.

  • medussa

    My next quilt pattern! Love it.

  • Jack Bentley

    BLASPHEMY! There is only ONE FSM

  • Daniel

    I don’t see it…what am I supposed to be looking for?

  • DangerouslySafe

    Where can we get them?

  • Erp

    @daniel.

    Take a look at just one piece and look for two black dots.

  • gwen

    Medusa, you read my mind!!

  • Medusa, gwen and other quilters: please, please send me a photo if you do a quilted variation of this. I would do one myself if I had some sewing skills.

    dow [at] uoregon.edu

  • Hitch

    FSM gotta be an aperiodic tiling though. 😛

  • mb

    It’s not “Virgin Appears on Toast” but surely it implies there is an Intelligence out There…making math make interlocking squiggly lines.

    BTW: “tessellation” sounds like something from a Scientology summer camp. I’m not sure I believe that’s a real thing.

  • BLASPHEMY! There is only ONE FSM

    Perhaps the FSM theologians can come up with some kind of “multiple in One” concept similar to the Christian Trinity.

  • Claudia

    Would look awesome for kids floors or bathroom mats.

  • Valhar2000

    Perhaps the FSM theologians can come up with some kind of “multiple in One” concept similar to the Christian Trinity

    The FSM is supreme: it can do whatever it wants! If it wants to exist several times at once it damn well will! There’s your theology!

    Trying to impose petty bronze-age limitations on the FSM… The idea!

  • Is there a T-Shirt yet???
    Please make on!

  • Steve

    Please no! The trinity is one of the most fucked-up, illogical and ill-thought concepts in Christianity. Keep FSMism simple!

  • Please no! The trinity is one of the most fucked-up, illogical and ill-thought concepts in Christianity. Keep FSMism simple!

    Perhaps a commandment saying the FSM shall only by represented in either single or tessellated images.

  • Mike

    BLASPHEMY! There is only ONE FSM

    Clearly you have not heard of the tridecaduality of the FSM.

    Apologies if I miscounted the number of distinct but equal persons in the one FSM.

    More apologies to any mathematical linguists if I came up with the wrong term for 32-ness.