This repository contains some of my code for the geodesic project. I’ve omitted the messier notebooks where I developed the algorithms and fixed bugs. I can adjust the parameters in Plotting_dot20tau_10Dec2020.ipynb to replicate whatever those notebooks did.

Amoeba_8Aug2020.ipynb is where I implemented the Amoeba minimization algorithm from Numerical Recipes.

Status_update_15Aug2020.ipynb contains images of the various surfaces I found in August.

In Plotting_dot20tau_10Dec2020.ipynb, I find a quintic polynomial that has an intersection angle of τ/5=2π/5.

GitHub doesn’t display the 3D plots, so try using nbviewer. But nbviewer fails a lot. I think it will work if you input the permanent URL, e.g. https://github.com/TheodoreEhrenborg/geodesic_public/tree/d97f2fa9546b7daebbf0d8a7d2d4cd8b18a70111 instead of https://github.com/TheodoreEhrenborg/geodesic_public/. Of course, replace the d97f2fa hash with the current version’s hash.