billiards
6 stories and discussions about billiards, aggregated from every source we track.
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Blog of the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence. On this blog we show pictures of interesting structures related to our research in the STRUCTURES Cluster, and we give you an idea what they are, how they come about, and…
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Eva Miranda (UPC, CRM) and Isaac Ramos (ETH Zürich) show that a point particle bouncing inside a planar table with fixed walls can simulate a universal Turing machine, settling a question Cristopher Moore left open in…
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In this long paper we give a fairly complete analysis of outer billiards on the Penrose kite. Our analysis reveals that this 2-dimensional non-compact system has a 3-dimensional compactification, a certain polyhedron…