Author Archives: dougaj4

Animated Pythagoras

Posted on 13/02/2012 by dougaj4

Two animatations of a “wordless” proof of Pythaoras’ Theorem provided by SSSF regular PM 2Ring. This animation is a “wordless proof” of Pythagoras’ theorem. The basic design is an interlocking pattern of coloured squares overlaid with “shadow” squares. In most … Continue reading →

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Elegant solutions, 192 of them

Posted on 09/02/2012 by dougaj4

The Edge is a place where they seek: To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they … Continue reading →

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VBA code generation on the spreadsheet

Posted on 07/02/2012 by dougaj4

A previous post looked at using VBA to generate more VBA code.  This post looks at automatic code generation on the spreadsheet, which may be transferred into the a VBA project using the techniques discussed in the earlier post, or simply … Continue reading →

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ShowReel …

Posted on 05/02/2012 by dougaj4

… from my daughter Kerinne Jenkins ShowReel from Kerinne Jenkins on Vimeo. Including shots from: Precious (Short film) Culling (AFTRS Short film) Sweetness Follows (Short film) Music Videos from Sweet Teeth, The Perishers and The Former Love.

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Retrieving unique values from a range or array …

Posted on 31/01/2012 by dougaj4

… using the Scripting Dictionary object. in a previous post I looked at using the dictionary object to count connected elements in a finite element model.  This post looks at a more general (and simpler) usage to return unique values from … Continue reading →

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