Monkey on My Back

Programming seems to have me by the throat, the last few weeks. Every time I think I've got my little suite of algorithms doing everything I need, I think of something else I can make them do, or some refinement I can add. This afternoon I wrote code that finds the symmetries of any deltahedron, just from the data that defines it. (It won't find the matrix form of the symmetries, but that's not a high priority right now.) Now I'm thinking about ways of automatically generating defining data for certain special families of deltahedra.

This is a lot of fun, but there's a downside. I'm so busy making tools that I'm neglecting actually using them. Even that is only an instrumental goal; the point is to gather data that can be used to make conjectures, which in turn need to be proven. What I'm doing is three or four levels away from the real work....

But it's fun.