{"id":37023,"date":"2004-12-14T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/12\/14\/scientists-come-one-step-closer-to-the-perfect-poppy-seed-bagel\/"},"modified":"2004-12-14T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T09:04:00","slug":"scientists-come-one-step-closer-to-the-perfect-poppy-seed-bagel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20041214-00\/?p=37023","title":{"rendered":"Scientists come one step closer to the perfect poppy-seed bagel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s easy to distribute points evenly across a flat surface, but doing so over a curved surface is a much more complicated problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/sphere.htm\"> Even spheres are hard<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about\/people\/bios\/ssimon.html\"> NPR&#8217;s Scott Simon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/rundowns\/segment.php?wfId=4223425\"> interviews mathematician Ed Saff<\/a> who with colleague Doug Hardin has developed a new method of attacking this complex problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/news\/releases?id=15880\"> Press release from Vanderbilt University<\/a><\/p>\n<p>. You can also download the paper (in PDF form) from Dr.&nbsp;Saff&#8217;s home page, if you think you&#8217;re smart enough to understand it. (Don&#8217;t ask me for help. I have two degrees in mathematics and was in over my head by halfway through page&nbsp;2. I couldn&#8217;t even make it out of the <strong>Introduction<\/strong>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to distribute points evenly across a flat surface, but doing so over a curved surface is a much more complicated problem. Even spheres are hard. NPR&#8217;s Scott Simon interviews mathematician Ed Saff who with colleague Doug Hardin has developed a new method of attacking this complex problem. Press release from Vanderbilt University . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-37023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to distribute points evenly across a flat surface, but doing so over a curved surface is a much more complicated problem. Even spheres are hard. NPR&#8217;s Scott Simon interviews mathematician Ed Saff who with colleague Doug Hardin has developed a new method of attacking this complex problem. Press release from Vanderbilt University . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}