{"id":1003,"date":"2014-11-18T00:24:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/?page_id=1003"},"modified":"2024-04-18T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:31:41","slug":"personal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Puzzles<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I&#8217;m interested in designing and solving mechanical puzzles. I&#8217;m\u00a0particularly interested in difficulty; how difficult puzzles are, and\u00a0in what ways they can be made difficult other than by combinatorial\u00a0complexity or obfuscation. I own rather a lot of examples; if you are\u00a0interested I have a few favourites in my office.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my designs are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/asteed\/designs\">Thingiverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Michael Dowle, I helped Robert Reid publish some of his geometric designs in a book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Gentle-Art-Filling-Space\/dp\/129154125X\">The Gentle Art of Filling Space<\/a>. They are fascinating patterns, especially since they were originally designed in Robert&#8217;s head, not in a CAD package. Robert died in 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr_invisible\"><\/div>\n<h3>Hiking, etc.<\/h3>\n<p>I enjoy\u00a0exploring mountains. I run frequently. I climb occasionally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr_invisible\"><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=anthony_steed\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puzzles I&#8217;m interested in designing and solving mechanical puzzles. I&#8217;m\u00a0particularly interested in difficulty; how difficult puzzles are, and\u00a0in what ways they can be made difficult other than by combinatorial\u00a0complexity or obfuscation. I own rather a lot of examples; if you are\u00a0interested I have a few favourites in my office. Some of my designs are on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1003\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/anthonysteed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}