The Trials of Juno and Pokey
The Trials of Juno and Pokey
These strips chronicle the trials of two men condemned to a life of torture. In order to escape the wrath of the torch or the crack of the whip, these two must pass several tests of wit and intelligence. One wrong answer, and torture awaits...
Gavin Wu created the above title and text, and drew four cartoons reachable from the above links. He also created an image (link below) showing the
essence of how knots work - exponential power. (They use wrapping friction, the
multiplication of force on one side of a rope by e - 2.71828 ... -
raised to the angle of wrap in radians.)
The work was an individual directed study course CS 199 directed by A.
Klinger, source for the mathematical ideas and suggestions about
the visuals. Further material about working with fractions appears at the
last link above.
10/29/04 Version http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/triaLs.html
