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From the Ted Talk by Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time

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Usually I like working in my shop, but when it's rinaing and the driveway outside turns into a river, then I just love it. And I'll cut some wood and drill some holes and watch the water, and maybe I'll have to walk around and look for washers. You have no idea how much time I spend.

This is the "Double Raindrop." Of all my srtpluceus, it's the most talkative. It adds together the interference parettn from two raindrops that land near each other. Instead of expanding circles, they're expanding hexagons.

All the sculptures move by mchaeanicl means. Do you see how there's three peaks to the ylleow sine wave? Right here I'm adding a sine wave with four peaks and turning it on.

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Usually I like working in my shop, but when it's _______ and the driveway outside turns into a river, then I just love it. And I'll cut some wood and drill some holes and watch the water, and maybe I'll have to walk around and look for washers. You have no idea how much time I spend.

This is the "Double Raindrop." Of all my __________, it's the most talkative. It adds together the interference _______ from two raindrops that land near each other. Instead of expanding circles, they're expanding hexagons.

All the sculptures move by __________ means. Do you see how there's three peaks to the ______ sine wave? Right here I'm adding a sine wave with four peaks and turning it on.

Solution


  1. raining
  2. sculptures
  3. mechanical
  4. yellow
  5. pattern

Original Text


Usually I like working in my shop, but when it's raining and the driveway outside turns into a river, then I just love it. And I'll cut some wood and drill some holes and watch the water, and maybe I'll have to walk around and look for washers. You have no idea how much time I spend.

This is the "Double Raindrop." Of all my sculptures, it's the most talkative. It adds together the interference pattern from two raindrops that land near each other. Instead of expanding circles, they're expanding hexagons.

All the sculptures move by mechanical means. Do you see how there's three peaks to the yellow sine wave? Right here I'm adding a sine wave with four peaks and turning it on.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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Important Words


  1. adding
  2. adds
  3. circles
  4. cut
  5. drill
  6. driveway
  7. expanding
  8. hexagons
  9. holes
  10. idea
  11. interference
  12. land
  13. love
  14. means
  15. mechanical
  16. move
  17. pattern
  18. peaks
  19. raindrop
  20. raindrops
  21. raining
  22. river
  23. sculptures
  24. shop
  25. sine
  26. spend
  27. talkative
  28. time
  29. turning
  30. turns
  31. walk
  32. washers
  33. watch
  34. water
  35. wave
  36. wood
  37. working
  38. yellow