Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-12
Stephen J. Pursey’s Mathematics of Hidden Cavities
A Lakewood, Ohio hobbyist documents computational work on polycubes that enclose internal cavities.
Why it surfacedThe site turns a highly specific mathematical obsession into an inviting public project: an interactive eleven-cube challenge, six OEIS-related questions, and an enumeration result of exactly 384 minimal builds. Its candid voice—“I hated math as a kid”—makes the research feel unusually personal and approachable.
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Ice Does Not Count
August 12’s newborn domains include a rule-bound archive of enormous sodas, 27 family stories cut from one afternoon, a disaster-supply map with a 24-hour freshness rule, and an ocean bell that rings only when six conditions agree.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.