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Computer Graphics - Poetry - Relaxation Video/DVD
by Dr. Karl Scherer

NEW : Mathematica Demonstrations, Fotos

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The author and his wife at "Infinity", Surfers Paradise, Australia

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~ Infinite Relaxation ~

a truely mind-expanding, relaxing and meditative music video by Dr. Karl Scherer
with music by Jeff Clarkson ( 10 CDs published!)

New : medium (twice the size of small puzzles, 7-15 cm) and large Puzzles (25-40 cm) now available!

    

MAX Board Game & Puzzle

    - it's a puzzle with a wealth of challenges when played as a solitaire shape-filling game
    - it's a board game that entertains the whole family
 
 

NUTTS Puzzle - a wealth of tricky problems to challenge the best puzzlists
 
 
 

THE (ALMOST) IMPOSSIBLE CUBE - It will stun everybody you know
 
 

PEARL PUZZLE - this one will REALLY test your manipulative skills...
 
 
 
 
 

 WASHER PUZZLE - for the technically minded puzzlists...
 
 
 
 
 
 

• DUCADO board game (click see software version) - currently not available - looking for manufacturer
• CAPETOWN solitaire game (click here to see software version) - currently not available - looking for manufacturer

"A Puzzling Journey To The Reptiles And Related Animals"
"NUTTS And Other Crackers"  (purchase of book includes free NUTTS puzzle!)

"NEW MOSAICS" - new tiling challenges and their beautiful solutions (about 1000 diagrams!)

 To read the whole book online and for content list and ordering click here. 
Click here to download the book as pdf file:  Wecker im Kopf
                           

Online Galleries:
   Gallery 1 :  Karl's small gallery (framed pictures): Room 1 Room 2  Room 3 Room 4  Room 5 Room 6  Room 7
   Gallery 2 :  Karl's Main Fractal Gallery  be amazed! (over 100 pictures; mirror at http://www.y23.com/fractal//)
   Gallery 3 :  Karl's large art gallery at the German art company "Kunst-Fuer-Alle"

Photos and infos:

•    Big German Newspaper prints one of Karl's Fractals
  
•    More Info on Public Exhibitions, Photos
•    Applications, Description and Prices
•    Technical description of how fractals are produced 

 

Some of my games available on Pocket PC, Palm and on Game Servers!  

My 584 ZILLIONS games -  free to download
              External links: Educational Zillions games

Favorite Chess Variants: Free !!
Play them with your own chess board, without a computer:
Click here for a list of Chess Variants and their rules.

• Convex Tilings (using congruent parts)
• Difficult dissections
• Gallery of NOWHERE-NEAT Tilings of the Plane  - using only one or two prototiles (>200 graphics)
• J-Stone - a very versatile tile
• New Irreptiles
  
• Square The Square  - a simple tiling problem, beautiful solutions, and two general theorems
• Square The Rectangle  - a simple tiling problem, over 1000 solutions, and two general theorems  
• Tetrads
  
• Triangulating the plane with mutually different regular triangles - impossibility theorem
  

 Mathematica Demonstrations

• A-Maze
• Connect the dots
• Cryptic Crossword Puzzles
• Everyone should have a (check-) mate
• Globetrotter Maze
• Retro Chess Problems
• Straightjacket Chess World Record: What is the longest sequence of  forced moves in chess?
• The two identical angles
• The Quartercircle Heritage
• The Touching Flat Polycubes Problem
• Word & Math problems

Miscellaneous

• About the inventor
• On inventors, inventions, tips and tricks
• House Insulation   Do something for the environment - insulate your house!
• Our Free Rainwater System! - free and self installed parallel to city water
• Clean fun with my Kero 200 electric scooter - cheap to run and pollution free!
  
• IPP- The International Puzzle Party
• Music pieces
• Scrabble
• Talks on tilings and math games at the University at Jena (Germany) 2006 : (German) (English)
  
• Zillions Art

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