[math-fun] 3-D spider webs?
Olivier Gerard wrote:
Hello,
I just spotted an old article of National Geographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0624_040624_tvspider.html
[etc.] The movie "The Last Mimzy" featured a boy who, under the influence of various pedagogical artifacts from the future, creates a prize-winning science fair project by inducing spiders to build three-dimensional webs. Do any spiders build genuinely three-dimensional webs? (I am not counting random amorphous webs like the ones described in http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/31/us/31spider.html?_r=1&oref=slogin but webs whose three-dimensionality is architectural.) Jim Propp
The movie "The Last Mimzy" featured a boy who, under the influence of various pedagogical artifacts from the future, creates a prize-winning science fair project by inducing spiders to build three-dimensional webs.
Related to the short story "Mimsy were the Borogoves", which IIRC also involved children and paedagogical artefacts from the future? Er, I suppose I can check that for myself. <tappety tap> Yes, apparently it is, but it sounds like it's not as good as the short story. 'Twas ever thus. -- g
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, James Propp wrote:
Do any spiders build genuinely three-dimensional webs?
Sure, funnel web spiders do: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/FunnelWeb0061.jpg The Nursery Web Spider also seems to make a quite regular golf-ball shaped nursery: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Spider0008.jpg
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