{"id":7164,"date":"2011-08-15T06:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T18:15:22","slug":"musical-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2011\/musical-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re not afraid to get nerdy here at UncommonGoods, so when we came across <a href=\"http:\/\/vihart.com\/\">Vi Hart&#8217;s blog<\/a> featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/mechanical-music-box-set?source=blog\">mechanical music boxes<\/a> we couldn&#8217;t wait to share!<\/p>\n<p>In her first music box demonstrations, the mathemusician twists paper into a M\u00f6bius strip and plays an arrangement. A M\u00f6bius strip is a non-orientable surface with only one side and one boundary component.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 500px;\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3iMI_uOM_fY?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed style=\"height: 390px; width: 500px;\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3iMI_uOM_fY?version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In her second arrangement, Vi gets cranking with four music boxes. Three boxes create a canon by playing the same strip of paper in sequence, while another plays a loop of paper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 500px;\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3a9wWRxYSko?version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed style=\"height: 390px; width: 500px;\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3a9wWRxYSko?version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Vi for sharing her creativity! Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/vihart.com\/musicbox\/\">Vi Hart-Music Boxes<\/a> to read her original post and find links to more great demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vi Hart makes math magic with mechanical music boxes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[34,480,623],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}