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Re: On the recursive subdivision of two-dimensional food items
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Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:49:02 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Stephen F. Roberts wrote:
> On 02:13 16-08-04, Todd Lehman wrote
> > Last night at IHOP, after copious amounts of beer at Rocklands, a few of
> > us were
> > talking about how we cut our food up into differently-sized portions
> > during the
> > eating process, and I realized that an algorithm exists for maximizing the
> > total
> > enjoyment of a given serving of food...
> <MUCH GEEKAGE SNIPPED>
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> > glasses because subdividing a body of liquid is not only time consuming
> > but messy. This algorithm lends itself well to two-dimensional food items
> > cut with the side of a fork because you are making cuts there anyway.
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> Me thinks someone was over thinking this a bit too much....
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> excellent geek analysis...
> Note that this algorithm doesn't apply well to liquids in bottles or
The easiest way to divide up a bottle of liquid would be to use the spirit
measure, though this is not recursive:
Repeat
Attach measure to bottle
Repeat
pour drink
drink
Until bottle empty
Seek another bottle
Until too drunk to lift glass
not that I have experience of this, you understand!
If you use triangular toast and cut into four triangles, omitting the middle one
from the next round of cutting, you might end up with something similar to
Sierpinsky's gasket, quite a pretty fractal!
Mark
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