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Pieces of Eight: Foundational Physics
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Pieces of Eight is an exploration of ideas on fundamental representation in physics, aiming to describe a unifying framework.

Presented at PIRT XI, September 2008.

Four Fours: Interactive Puzzle
Four Fours

Using only four '4's, i.e. 4, 4, 4, and 4, with any number of operators, you must arrive at the chosen solution. For example,

0 = (4+4) – (4+4)
1 = (4 / 4) / (4 / 4)

OK, that's 0 and 1 done, what about the rest? It becomes more difficult with higher numbers!

Zenith - Download free to play now!
ZenithZenith is an immersive puzzle game, inspired by The Sentinel by Geoff Crammond. Use the landscape's resources wisely to gain height and depose the Sentinel from the highest point on the landscape.

Coded Raw: an open and universal image format
Coded Raw Project

An ambitious project to define a method for open and futureproof interchange of image data, by embedding modular decoding logic within an image, compliant with a standard interface.

The basic elements of the project are: (a) an API, (b) a file format, (c) standards to support the API and file format, and (d) working applications.

News
13 Feb 2010Site News

Server-side improvements, and tidying of content. Each mini-site acts like a Wiki, and is searchable.

13 May 2009Po8

We've been updating the Pieces of Eight: Fundamental Physics with new releases, and have included a live document viewer for the latest paper (March 2009). Development continues in the background, but we're choosing not to publish all work, respecting the conventional channels for such releases.

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