Find Matt's new book, Love Triangle, here: amzn.to/3WWMfEZ Watch more of Matt's videos at Stand-Up Maths: th-cam.com/users/standupmaths Zachary Abel's mathematical sculptures: zacharyabel.com/sculpture/
@@VAXHeadroom Cliff must have a glass Borromean ring set somewhere, right? My thought was that Steve Mould and Adam Savage need their own collab to complete the set _this week._
19:32 _"I'm enjoying the frustration."_ The immediate cut to Matt sitting back a bit from the table with what I can only call *defeated contemplation* is so hilarious to me!😂
when you start trying to make something of sufficient complexity you often just have to get all the obvious failure points out of the way as fast as possible so that you find out that they are obvious
Hexastix: “Start building it, and keep building it, and then you’re done.” Borromean Box: "Start building it, and keep... um... keep... dammit, just... keep.... nnghh..."
I had built the "impenatraball" from Zachary Abel's site years and years ago, i still have it on my desk in my office! It was quite a bit of work to get it together, I love it though!
Oh boy! "Adam builds ạ̶̧̧̨̢̱̣̳̲̠̞̲͎̫͙̳͖͍̦͖̫̰̰̥͇͚̲̮̱͙̟̤̦̪̮̥̟̦̳̘͙͊́̆͒̾̓̇̓̀̽̋̿͂̍̽̓̅̾̓̔̌̀̚͝͝ ̵̢̢̧̛̤̱̯̮̪͖̮̙͎͈̝͚̜̖̬̖͍̙̻̄̐̆̽̈́́̿̃̋͊̂̚̕͠ͅc̸̯̰̟̪͚͋̍̏̓͐̇̑̈́͂̑̇͊̾͊̐͛͋̈́͝ư̶̢̨̹͖̳̙̞̩̘̰̼̝͔͕̩̠͎̭̹̰̲̬̬̹̙̳̯͔̦͂͋͑̑̐͌̏̄̃̎͊͌̃̓̾̿̄̒̎̈́̔̿̐̃̓͆̀̊̚͠͝͝b̸̢̧̨̧̧̢̼̝̲̻͉̠̮͚̟͍̩͕̤̙̬̗̖̻̬͓͓̱͉̖̱̪̦̞̖̲̳͓̮̙̗̣̙͓̦͙͔͙͈̽̌̎̽͜e̴̢̨̧̧̛̫͚͎̟̫͓̭̻͙̼̟̻͇͈͈̘͕̥̖̋̃̎̈́̉̒͆͒̉̓̋̇̏͑̅̾̀̇͐̓͘͠ͅ with Matt Parker"? Sign me up!!
They should have pre-clipped the inner part out of each paperclip before even starting, so it was just an oval with only a small amount of overlap of the two ends. That would have solved the issue of one end being too small to fit the other clips into and made the whole thing easier. Obviously hindsight is 20/20 because I only thought of this when they were almost done. But that’s what I’d do if I was trying this.
Adam tried to slip “any integer” by Matt, Matt gently corrected him to “any whole number.” I want to see Adam try to construct one with a negative number of links.
Well.. It was still wrong. All 0, 1 and 2 are whole numbers but you cannot build this with those amounts of loops. It only works with three or more loops.
@@anteshellYeah. I don't think that was a correction; I think that was Matt throwing in simpler language for viewers who might not know what an integer is.
Turns out the phenomenon of parker square does in fact extend to three dimensional problems :D Huge love for the colour choices too, appropriate for Matt's excellent taste in t-shirts!
Always love seeing Matt Parker on the channel! As a Stand-Up Mathematician, he's such a "stand-up" guy and always enjoys even the simplest bit of fun in all things science. I'm a big lover of all things geometry and the ins-and-outs of shapes, too, so the more of these videos to watch the better!❤
I can imagine each time you pick them up, you spend more time pressing, twisting, and banging them into shape. We've all been there.. it never gets better
Went down the rabbit hole of Zachary Abel’s “quality side projects to assign an active mind to in a boring office. I don’t understand the math on any of them, but enjoy puzzles. Gonna give the poker face one a go this week. Y’all are awesome. Been a huge fan of you since I was a kid, Adam. And it is incredibly awesome to me 1. That you’re still having fun doing this stuff, and 2. That you’re sharing your fun with the world.
one way that may be more in the spirit of the Borromean box and less in the spirit of "out of paperclips" could be to snip out the center turn of the paperclip at a height that lines up with the other "tail" of the paperclip wire, so it essentially forms a broken chainlink where both ends line up and can either be taped together or just left aligned. I feel like it could eliminate a lot of the difficulty as well.
I saw the thumbnail for his and thought "Oh they are going to do some little trick and bend these paperclips nicely into a perfect cube and it will be symmetrical and neat..", and then here they are with these bent muscled in, broken, compromises of a cube.. An 'A' for effort you two! You did your best.
@@Drakith90 When they came to the realization they weren't going to be able to emulate it without mangling the paper clips is when I expected the eureka moment.
I remember Adam saying at one point in the past about his work at ILM that "every prop has a hero side", and the statement has never rung truer than right now.
But that's not all they wanted, they've done a couple videos of shapes with office supplies. They wanted to do it with paperclips and for them to still seem like paper clips
Oh man, when he said there's a beer in the US that has a logo like that, Ballantine. My great uncle owned a bar back when I was a kid. My father and my grandfather tended bar there in the sixties. The other day, going through a small box of coins, mostly wheat pennies, and a couple of steel ones, I found a small Ballantine 3 ring aluminum trinket that I must-have picked up as a kid.
I wasn't sure if it was an intentional choice on Matt's part to pick the trans flag colors for his paperclips, but then I noticed he's wearing a rainbow heart T-shirt as well and that seems very intentional. :0
I looked in the comments purely to see if someone else noticed. As soon as I saw him pick the trans flag colours I got excited :3 It's also just a really good colour scheme.
I've noticed Matt is very consistently referring to people he don't know, particularly viewers/listeners using singular they which is great. It of course just makes a lot of sense to do so with random people from around the world since unless the viewer/listener specified their pronouns, it's impossible to reliably guess someones pronouns from a foreign name. But I've noticed him also refer to people he know or famous people with singular they too; often (somewhat stubbornly) alternating between singular they and the person's presumed preferred pronouns; which I'm sure is a deliberate choice to normalise singular they. So I'm pretty sure he's an ally, and I would not be surprised if he has trans friends or family, so the choice of trans flag colours is probably deliberate.
At one of my jobs in college, I used to build paperclip structures like this. I never made a cube, but there are some interesting properties when you link them in the right way.
I am an artist. A fiber artist… who pursued a math degree… and this is SO inspiring. You’ve got my analytical & artistic brains going and now I want to play instead of work on the birthday gift I’ve been working on.
The way how everything is interlocked but not knotted reminds me a lot of crochet! Or knitting for that matter. The last step is securing the piece with an actual knot, because the fabric it'self is a matrix of slip knots that form the fabric. It appears to be all held into place. but if you don't finish your work by securing it, everything can come undone!. But with yarnwork in it's simplest form it is a single continuous line that loops in and over back over and through itself continuously. I find a lot of beauty in that. And the skill has become easier than riding a bike to me, so it's quite satisfying as well
I love how you tell me how and why it works then you show me. Best way to learn because by the end i somehow catch on thanks to all the pieces together.
I enjoyed this problem and wondered about 20 minutes in, should they have used their first 3 sets of groupings as the very center and worked outwards which may have made the linking easier
I love this. I've seen 2 others... Staples: take lengths of staples that are as long as 3, and slide them together into a cube. Also Business Cards: fold in half and assemble into cubes. With a whole box of cards you can interlace the cubes into shapes!
Find Matt's new book, Love Triangle, here: amzn.to/3WWMfEZ
Watch more of Matt's videos at Stand-Up Maths: th-cam.com/users/standupmaths
Zachary Abel's mathematical sculptures: zacharyabel.com/sculpture/
I want to see Adam, Matt, and Cliff Stoll all in a room doing stuff like this...Might be peak internet nerd entertainment...
@@VAXHeadroom Cliff must have a glass Borromean ring set somewhere, right? My thought was that Steve Mould and Adam Savage need their own collab to complete the set _this week._
Guys get a room already ...
Or do brain candy. Either one is acceptable
19:32 _"I'm enjoying the frustration."_
The immediate cut to Matt sitting back a bit from the table with what I can only call *defeated contemplation* is so hilarious to me!😂
LMAO you are so right
Never before have I seen an image in which I can so fully relate to both halves of it
23:21
YES!! that snap cut floored me 😂😂
"I feel like I'm going to make a decision now and I'm going to regret it, but I don't know what the right decision is." - said EVERY engineer EVER.
Said every engineer, daily!
Truth!
As said by Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang theory.
when you start trying to make something of sufficient complexity you often just have to get all the obvious failure points out of the way as fast as possible so that you find out that they are obvious
@@darrinrebagliati5365 If it's daily, I envy your job!
Hexastix: “Start building it, and keep building it, and then you’re done.” Borromean Box: "Start building it, and keep... um... keep... dammit, just... keep.... nnghh..."
Pretty much. We started the day by filming the hexastix and we were SO HAPPY WE DID.
If the hexastix is the beauty of doing math, the borromean box is the frustration of doing math
Where is the Hexastix video?
I had built the "impenatraball" from Zachary Abel's site years and years ago, i still have it on my desk in my office! It was quite a bit of work to get it together, I love it though!
@@scoobertmcruppert2915 the video for it was August 21
9:16 "It looks like you're trying to build a sculpture" - absolutely sent me!
Long live Clippy in our memories (in scorn, of course).
('Clippy' was an answer to a question on my episode of Hard Quiz - Aussies will understand)
Yup, great Clippy reference that triggered me as well 😂
The hate this caused in my very soul
Top tier joke, completely missed by Adam
"Clippy Must DIE!":
th-cam.com/video/NxcmoLKVd60/w-d-xo.html
I'm a simple man. I see "Adam builds [words I don't understand] with Matt Parker" and I click on the video.
Oh boy! "Adam builds ạ̶̧̧̨̢̱̣̳̲̠̞̲͎̫͙̳͖͍̦͖̫̰̰̥͇͚̲̮̱͙̟̤̦̪̮̥̟̦̳̘͙͊́̆͒̾̓̇̓̀̽̋̿͂̍̽̓̅̾̓̔̌̀̚͝͝ ̵̢̢̧̛̤̱̯̮̪͖̮̙͎͈̝͚̜̖̬̖͍̙̻̄̐̆̽̈́́̿̃̋͊̂̚̕͠ͅc̸̯̰̟̪͚͋̍̏̓͐̇̑̈́͂̑̇͊̾͊̐͛͋̈́͝ư̶̢̨̹͖̳̙̞̩̘̰̼̝͔͕̩̠͎̭̹̰̲̬̬̹̙̳̯͔̦͂͋͑̑̐͌̏̄̃̎͊͌̃̓̾̿̄̒̎̈́̔̿̐̃̓͆̀̊̚͠͝͝b̸̢̧̨̧̧̢̼̝̲̻͉̠̮͚̟͍̩͕̤̙̬̗̖̻̬͓͓̱͉̖̱̪̦̞̖̲̳͓̮̙̗̣̙͓̦͙͔͙͈̽̌̎̽͜e̴̢̨̧̧̛̫͚͎̟̫͓̭̻͙̼̟̻͇͈͈̘͕̥̖̋̃̎̈́̉̒͆͒̉̓̋̇̏͑̅̾̀̇͐̓͘͠ͅ with Matt Parker"? Sign me up!!
For me just seeing any one of them is enough :)
Oh, a "paperclip" is a metal rod bent into a clip shape used for holding paper together. Hope that helps!
At this point Matt Parker should just be a regular on the channel.
Well, he kind of is, and we’re here for it! It just depends on his travel schedule is all; he has an open invitation with us.
@@tested Bring in Cliff Stoll with Matt next time !
@@VAXHeadroom Cliff Stoll and Adam Savage together would probably be an almost uncontrollable amount of enthusiasm
@@VAXHeadroom Biggest collab of all time! All for Cliff in the channel!
@@gabotron94 If there's one person on Earth who could make Adam as exhausted with their overenthusiasm as Jamie was with Adam's...
Thanx for sharing your "play date" with us. Y'all look like you are having entirely too much fun. Oh so good!!! 💙🌻💙
Not to be confused with the Boromirian box, which is just a normal box that's been shot full of arrows :D
That reference has a ring to it.
Now I need someone to make a boromirian box out of paperclip arrows.
@@ecksearoh6283 Tiny bows.
Too soon haha
I hear that was always his father's favourite box, as opposed to the Faramirian box which was always a disappointment.
I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect demonstration of the gradual descent into insanity.
"im having fun! im enjoying the difficulty"
*cut to matt sitting back away from the table, staring at the project like it insulted his mother*
Love Matt & Adam collabs :) Let there be more!
We agree!
They should have pre-clipped the inner part out of each paperclip before even starting, so it was just an oval with only a small amount of overlap of the two ends. That would have solved the issue of one end being too small to fit the other clips into and made the whole thing easier.
Obviously hindsight is 20/20 because I only thought of this when they were almost done. But that’s what I’d do if I was trying this.
I think they wanted to preserve the shape of the paperclips
I was thinking of a special wire bend, but your idea is way better, just cut the inner side, super!
@@wumbojet I don't think they succeeded haha
I started thinking that as soon as they hit that problem and didn't do it. All they wanted were ovals, so just cut out the extra bit.
The original they were trying to recreate still had the whole clips so they were trying to stick to the source material
Adam tried to slip “any integer” by Matt, Matt gently corrected him to “any whole number.”
I want to see Adam try to construct one with a negative number of links.
Well.. It was still wrong. All 0, 1 and 2 are whole numbers but you cannot build this with those amounts of loops. It only works with three or more loops.
It would be any natural number then
@@anteshellYeah. I don't think that was a correction; I think that was Matt throwing in simpler language for viewers who might not know what an integer is.
I'd imagine that it'd be a complex build.
@@tinhoyhu We're talking about a negative, but still real number of links. A complex number is a whole nother level.
I like Matt's color choice. Blåhaj is just amazing.
i saw that and was immediately like: "matt knew what he was doing".
@@wazz_up_dog gosh i hope so!
Trans flag and rasta flag :)
was gonna comment the same when i saw the colors 😂🦈
It's just so nice & comforting to see :)
I love that little Clippy joke, "It looks like you are trying to build a sculpture..."
Poor clippy, trapped forever in a tangle
Turns out the phenomenon of parker square does in fact extend to three dimensional problems :D Huge love for the colour choices too, appropriate for Matt's excellent taste in t-shirts!
I love the "shapes with Matt Parker" series
Always love seeing Matt Parker on the channel! As a Stand-Up Mathematician, he's such a "stand-up" guy and always enjoys even the simplest bit of fun in all things science.
I'm a big lover of all things geometry and the ins-and-outs of shapes, too, so the more of these videos to watch the better!❤
Seems fitting that the Parker cube is as perfect as the Parker square.
It's also Parker-linked - not quite but just a bit
Exactly what I was thinking.
Can't wait to see how janky the Parker hyoercube ends up being
It looks like they're wiring up some old school computer memory.
❤ one of the best examples ever shown of nuero divergent co-play and interaction ever.
I get what you mean but 😭😭😭
Absolutely the most fun two makers can share! Perfect! Percussive refinement at the end punctuates the process.
Nitinol paper clips return to their original shape when put in hot water after bending. Maybe you could try that.
Oh I like that idea!
"If everything is sentient, then these are livid" - This for what every reason has me laughing out loud to myself. Ty
More with Matt please. This is golden to watch
I can imagine each time you pick them up, you spend more time pressing, twisting, and banging them into shape. We've all been there.. it never gets better
Every single line spoken by these two men could be put in a book of engineering words of wisdom.
Went down the rabbit hole of Zachary Abel’s “quality side projects to assign an active mind to in a boring office.
I don’t understand the math on any of them, but enjoy puzzles. Gonna give the poker face one a go this week.
Y’all are awesome. Been a huge fan of you since I was a kid, Adam. And it is incredibly awesome to me 1. That you’re still having fun doing this stuff, and 2. That you’re sharing your fun with the world.
one way that may be more in the spirit of the Borromean box and less in the spirit of "out of paperclips" could be to snip out the center turn of the paperclip at a height that lines up with the other "tail" of the paperclip wire, so it essentially forms a broken chainlink where both ends line up and can either be taped together or just left aligned. I feel like it could eliminate a lot of the difficulty as well.
I was fascinated by the way Adam straightened the paperclips and then proceeded to recreate the inner bend that was giving them the most trouble ...
I saw the thumbnail for his and thought "Oh they are going to do some little trick and bend these paperclips nicely into a perfect cube and it will be symmetrical and neat..", and then here they are with these bent muscled in, broken, compromises of a cube.. An 'A' for effort you two! You did your best.
9:16 Clippy!
I chuckled at that too!
Came to the comments to say that too! 📎 Clippy 💜
A murder of Crows
A Parliament of Owls
...
A Mockery of Stationery.
They look like hand knitted memory for a 1930's time machine
I like the clothespin vs electrical tape methods. Also it was both mentally stimulating, and relaxing to watch you two play w/ giant paperclips
A fine pair of Parker Cubes in the end
Two of my favourite people on youtube just making things together. I love these collaborations!
(Also, I love Matt's shirt and the colours he chose)
Waited the whole video for the eureka moment when they'd snip the superfluous inner loops of the clips.
It’s because the increased the number of paperclips
The originals on Zachary Abel's site all have the entire paper clip so they were trying to emulate that
@@Drakith90 When they came to the realization they weren't going to be able to emulate it without mangling the paper clips is when I expected the eureka moment.
"We are very triumphant having done the first step." Great line! It all looks like some sort of strange inductive device.
"Sorta" is really the name of the game with Matt Parker
Beautiful Parker Cube
the slow descent into chaos & madness here is hilariously wholesome to watch. I love it
I remember Adam saying at one point in the past about his work at ILM that "every prop has a hero side", and the statement has never rung truer than right now.
since all you wanted was "rings" basically, i'd have simply snipped the inner loop of those clips 🙃
But that's not all they wanted, they've done a couple videos of shapes with office supplies. They wanted to do it with paperclips and for them to still seem like paper clips
Really enjoying these videos with Matt!
Oh man, when he said there's a beer in the US that has a logo like that, Ballantine. My great uncle owned a bar back when I was a kid. My father and my grandfather tended bar there in the sixties. The other day, going through a small box of coins, mostly wheat pennies, and a couple of steel ones, I found a small Ballantine 3 ring aluminum trinket that I must-have picked up as a kid.
In my college days in the 60's Ballantine was 5 dollars a case (24 bottles). It was our go-to beverage.
Fantastic video, the build is very nice, but the two of you interacting about how to build it, that is priceless.
"From my friend, Matt Parker"
I don't have enough words for how much I love this
I appreciate the colors that were chosen!!
"My metric for success has gradually been relaxing" 🤣
Being an Artist is a Mindset too
I wasn't sure if it was an intentional choice on Matt's part to pick the trans flag colors for his paperclips, but then I noticed he's wearing a rainbow heart T-shirt as well and that seems very intentional. :0
I noticed the colors, too... hadn't noticed the shirt until I read this! Seems like we've got some allyship, at the very least. 🏳⚧🏳🌈
I looked in the comments purely to see if someone else noticed. As soon as I saw him pick the trans flag colours I got excited :3
It's also just a really good colour scheme.
so glad one of my siblings also noticed it! I clicked so fast because i was like "trans cube trans cube trans cube"
I've noticed Matt is very consistently referring to people he don't know, particularly viewers/listeners using singular they which is great. It of course just makes a lot of sense to do so with random people from around the world since unless the viewer/listener specified their pronouns, it's impossible to reliably guess someones pronouns from a foreign name. But I've noticed him also refer to people he know or famous people with singular they too; often (somewhat stubbornly) alternating between singular they and the person's presumed preferred pronouns; which I'm sure is a deliberate choice to normalise singular they. So I'm pretty sure he's an ally, and I would not be surprised if he has trans friends or family, so the choice of trans flag colours is probably deliberate.
The Transcube sounds like a real geometrical concept too
Thanks for sharing your frustration with us. It's very entertaining to watch.
Great job guys. Thank you 😊
man I love these kind of raw videos. so much fun to watch
There's a chainmaille technique called "Japanese 4-in-1" that can be used to accomplish to same effect with jump rings.
I love when they collab.
I'm loving Matt's TH-camr collaboration lately. 👍
I’m so excited, I enjoyed the hexastix video (and did that project myself, so fun) and can’t wait to try this! Thanks
The collaboration that I have been waiting for. 🤩
Man, how cool to be able to call up Adam Savage for a hang-out. I mean that's just beyond awesome, for both no doubt.
9:15 "It looks like you're trying to build a sculpture..." Clippy reference FTW!
At one of my jobs in college, I used to build paperclip structures like this. I never made a cube, but there are some interesting properties when you link them in the right way.
really should be a "feat Matt Parker" in this lol
My thoughts exactly
Your comment rocks!
@@Antipico-It didn't when he commented it... You can edit them without taking down the video.-
I guess i'll play along and edit my comment, too.😘
@@JaySay 😁
@@Antipico Is something wrong?
Are we playing a game of "comment tag" now or something?🤨
I am an artist. A fiber artist… who pursued a math degree… and this is SO inspiring. You’ve got my analytical & artistic brains going and now I want to play instead of work on the birthday gift I’ve been working on.
ok but matt's trans box has some incredible vibes going for it
I love these collabs with Matt Parker.
I love this, it's something anyone could try to do, and it looks very impressive.
Another savage video.xP Great work from both Parker and Savage.
This duo is awesome
The way how everything is interlocked but not knotted reminds me a lot of crochet! Or knitting for that matter. The last step is securing the piece with an actual knot, because the fabric it'self is a matrix of slip knots that form the fabric. It appears to be all held into place. but if you don't finish your work by securing it, everything can come undone!. But with yarnwork in it's simplest form it is a single continuous line that loops in and over back over and through itself continuously. I find a lot of beauty in that. And the skill has become easier than riding a bike to me, so it's quite satisfying as well
I love how you tell me how and why it works then you show me. Best way to learn because by the end i somehow catch on thanks to all the pieces together.
@17:43 "There's at least two ways!" Such a mathematician's way of looking at the world. "We've proven two, but there could always be more!"
I loved this descent into madness
31:10 Me with every project I start. Ever.
its lovely to see adam and matt together
adam parker and matt savage. lovely
+10 for Clippy reference "looks like you're trying to build a sculpture " 😂😂
Fascinating to watch!
This is the kind of thing I could see a school kid getting _really_ good at instead of studying during class.
Faramean box next week?
Legolian cube after that
Aragornian cube next month
Speaking from experience, Borromean rings make for fun 3D prints.
I would have just clipped off the smaller loop of the paper clip, problem solved!
How about a follow-up episode with you and Matt but you bring in Zachary Abel to help?
Matt's Clippy reference at 9:15 was *chefs kiss*
Cut off the redundant inner loops,
Exactly. The outside loop is still complete and the inside loop isn't even part of the 3 intersecting ellipses anyway.
Adam’s looks like something an electrician would carry around when doing some kind of industrial wiring.
I love Matt Parker!
I enjoyed this problem and wondered about 20 minutes in, should they have used their first 3 sets of groupings as the very center and worked outwards which may have made the linking easier
i love that you have given office workers someting to do
9:30 Clippy has entered the chat. 😂
I love this. I've seen 2 others... Staples: take lengths of staples that are as long as 3, and slide them together into a cube. Also Business Cards: fold in half and assemble into cubes. With a whole box of cards you can interlace the cubes into shapes!
25:52 Matt with his "One should have." 😂🤣
I liked that way you brought Matt into the Frame❤ 🖼️
Watching this while high from a joint... EXCELLENT!
My favorite educator duo
I could watch them just tinker and try stuff for hours!
the Tested version of the Gordian Knot
“That one’s cursed…” or at least cursed at!
39:29 "I appreciate your willingness to jump in and screw it up." AKA _giving it a go_