All Glory to the Hypnotoad

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It’s easy to divide a symmetric piece of paper such that the divided sections are equal in area if you draw a line down the exact middle, then draw another line down the exact middle again. That’s called a microcosm, because if you only divide the rightmost piece again and again, you will know everything there is to know about AREA of the leftmost piece, when it is divided. What considerations do you think you would need to make if the number of columns in the paper was even? If the number of columns in the paper was odd? Believe it or not, there are prime factors of folding to be taken into account. If you have done this before and constructed a ruler, you can use it to fold along differently graded microcosms by choosing prime factorizations of the length of the paper, rather than arbitrarily dividing it by two. The order in which you factor out column collections matters when comparing the microcosmed piece with the other portion. Power-of-two-numbered columns always divide the same way, though.

You can get better at making microcosms, and thereby seeing them, if you do the same thing twice. If you get worse at it, that’s life denying you your practice for the benefit of nobody because some evil motherfucker in a palace has already taken it away from us by doing something cruel with it, and placing limitations upon our ability to work constructively with it. For example, you can’t fold a piece of paper past 7 times.
Suggested Listening: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication (1999) – Parallel Universe
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  1. If you are a fan of SI units, keep receipts printed from standard favorite product buys and fold them into SI unit friendly ruler metrics. I proposed some fun math with Lamar BLVD Bar & Grill’s local MATH WEB, powered by the souls of elementary school and iddle schoolers youth and wonder and imagination to produce amazeballs content. I was granted test subject process for being turned into a receipt while writing on it to fold it into a 1/7th scale of the rfeceipt paper and found that it was impossible to do because of derivative complexity of the math being out of grasp of automated transistor and processor properties of modern physics computers leaving more to be desired. In fact, if my phyysiological mass hadn’t been treated as a resource by the food establishments, my inventions would have been released billions of trillions of years earlier because I was not fully prepared to act as center of thought compared to someone who was higher up on the food chain and perhaps not such an intellectual as I, leaving our world ultimately unsurvivably difficult to succeffssully operate in. The paper is delicate and the fold process damaging to the writing, so I used finest .7mm inks to front and back fold to 24ths, the slided the end of the receipt to subtract out 3/24ths, leaving me 1/21st, which i then multiplied by three using a trifold to get 1/7th, all the while maintaining knowledge that the receipt was equal to 1, and all fractions and fraction proofs must be prersent visually on the line enforced folds of the recipt ruler. It would be grand to print manuals and tools into receipts that operate with the product they represent purchase of, why not, perhaps, the product itelf, as we often see snacks like cheetos with a price printed on the package for resale that is bumped up and ignored at the register by sellers so as to account for higher modern overhead costs, meaning individual and indivisible labours are being forced to accomodate for more of the overall work in a system to maintain parity, without an increase in incentives, for the vast majority, and also with a high rate of introduction of unruly prroblems that require unavailable and nonpresent business partners.

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