Friday 28 November 2014

Fairy Board



From the Fairy Board identify:
[1] The 2 ways to arrange 4 non-attacking kings on a 4 X 4 board with 1 in each row and column.
See Hertzsprung's problem: ways to arrange n non-attacking kings on an n X n board,
with 1 in each row and column  (A002464)

[2] The 4 ways to place a non-attacking white and black rook on 2 X 2 chessboard.
See Number of ways to place a non-attacking white and black rook on n X n chessboard  (A035287)

[3] One of the 4 ways to place 10 nonattacking superqueens on a 10 X 10 board.
See Number of ways of placing n nonattacking superqueens on an n X n board  (A051223)


the blues

Blue23


Sunny day in the Ocean Depths of Ultraworld


Sheen of blues

Tuesday 25 November 2014

tracing rook paths


Polyknights and F3Layer2


Directional Contiguous Polyknights with 5, 6 and 7 moves, where a 1-move is a stationary knight


F3Layer2 is the pattern arising from applying 3 factorial
to 3 colours and then again to the 3 blocks of dimensions 2 by 3


Monday 24 November 2014

Yellow Submarine

Free, one-sided, and fixed polyknights
There are three common ways of distinguishing polyominoes and polyknights
free polyknights are distinct when none is a rigid transformation ( translation, rotation, reflection or glide reflection ) of another ( pieces that can be picked up and flipped over ).  one-sided polyknights are distinct when none is a translation or rotation of another  ( pieces that cannot be flipped over ).
fixed polyknights are distinct when none is a translation of another  ( pieces that can be neither flipped nor rotated ).  Yellow submarine shows polyknights of various types with 2 cells.


Chessboard Polyominoes

Chessboard Polyominoes with n squares. ( A001933 )
2, 1, 4, 7, ...


Wednesday 5 November 2014