New icons and wallpapers available now!: seanan

New icons and wallpapers available now!

Since we're counting down to the release of A Local Habitation—seventy-one* days, but really, who's counting? Beyond, I don't know, me—it seemed like a good time to get some awesome new graphics out into the world, courtesy of the always-spectacular

taraoshea. And so, without further ado, I direct you to take a look at the Icons and Wallpapers Page of my website. Go ahead. I can wait.

Now, aren't those amazing? The icon and wallpaper sets at the top are totally new, designed to go with A Local Habitation; we'll be adding a few more in January, but this was just a mind-blowingly awesome start. If you scroll to the bottom (or make use of the handy new navigation bar, of which I am justly proud), you'll find the wallpaper and icon sets for Winterfluch, the German edition of Rosemary and Rue which comes out this January. Tara did a remarkable job of recreating the feel and emotion of the cover without using any part of it in her graphics: that's all stock photography and CGI magic. She also relabeled several of the original Rosemary and Rue icons with the new title, so as to create a wider range of choices (this is going to be standard with non-U.S. releases).

I am beginning to get excited and scared and all that other good stuff. But the new graphics are gorgeous, and I totally recommend taking a peek.

(*Seventy-one is the twentieth prime number, and is the twin prime of seventy-three. It's also the permutable prime of seventeen. This has been your moment of prime number math geekery for the day. Sadly, I feel better now.)

desperance

December 21 2009, 16:54:42 UTC 7 years ago

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You forgot to mention that seventy-one and seventy-three are both permutable primes. Which I fancy doesn't happen often in twins...

seanan_mcguire

December 21 2009, 18:53:42 UTC 7 years ago

Ooooooooooo, you're right! That's awesome.

December 21 2009, 19:01:56 UTC 7 years ago

Numbers. Gotta love numbers. 'Specially primes. (I was all lamenty at my last birthday: "never again," I cried, "shall I be the square of a prime!" Well, not unless I live to a deeply unfeasible age...)

dimloep_suum

December 21 2009, 16:56:58 UTC 7 years ago

Oh my paws and whiskers, those are incredible.

December 21 2009, 18:54:02 UTC 7 years ago

I'm really, really pleased.

archangelbeth

December 21 2009, 16:57:03 UTC 7 years ago

I love how they kept the cover theme/pose/look!

December 21 2009, 18:54:15 UTC 7 years ago

Tara is damn good at what she does.

xjenavivex

December 21 2009, 17:41:02 UTC 7 years ago

Those are awesome. My favorite math geekery postage is back!

December 21 2009, 18:54:28 UTC 7 years ago

I should have the ALH countdown widget any day now.

December 21 2009, 18:55:17 UTC 7 years ago

::jumps up and down::

keristor

December 21 2009, 18:01:26 UTC 7 years ago

I love your bits of prime and other 'interesting' number geekery!

Incidentally, do you know that there are no numbers which are "not interesting", and it is provable?

December 21 2009, 18:54:35 UTC 7 years ago

I did!

amazon_syren

December 21 2009, 18:24:29 UTC 7 years ago

Okay... Permutable Prime is... You take a prime number, switch the didgets and get a different prime number?

So... what's a twin prime? (I'd rather ask you than Wikipedia, because you enjoy telling stories and geeking about math. ;-)

December 21 2009, 18:56:29 UTC 7 years ago

That is exactly it on the permutable prime. Seventy-one and seventeen; seventy-three and thirty-seven. They're awesome.

A twin prime is a prime separated from another prime by a factor of two. So three and five are twins, as are five and seven, eleven and thirteen, and seventy-one and seventy-three. I love twin primes.

December 21 2009, 19:07:47 UTC 7 years ago

That is exactly it on the permutable prime. Seventy-one and seventeen; seventy-three and thirty-seven. They're awesome.

And they get (I think) awesomer: 113/131/311, 199/919/991, 337/373/733. Um, I can't do any four-figure ones from memory, but they do go on...

December 22 2009, 05:15:50 UTC 7 years ago

They do. It rules.

December 21 2009, 20:12:02 UTC 7 years ago

Is 3-5-7 the only set of triplet primes? Is it provable (either way)? (But please don't scribble the answer in the margin and then die!)

December 21 2009, 22:48:18 UTC 7 years ago

The only one, surely? After that, every third odd number must be divisible by 3, and hence not prime.

December 22 2009, 05:17:38 UTC 7 years ago

Triplet primes (prime triplet) are actually defined as any set that goes either p, p+2, p+6 or p, p+4, p+6. This is because once you're past 3/5/7, you can't actually get more than two with the two-digit split (2/3/5 also has a non-standard split).

December 21 2009, 22:11:16 UTC 7 years ago

Does the 2 make is special because 2 is also a prime number? Or because that's as close as you can get to "next to each other" without being also divisible by two?