Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Dave and Tracy, "Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love."

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.)
Tags: a local habitation, art, good things, math is awesome, tara, toby daye, website updates
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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. ;-)

seanan_mcguire

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.

desperance

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...

seanan_mcguire

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

They do. It rules.

keristor

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!)

desperance

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.

seanan_mcguire

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).

amazon_syren

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?

seanan_mcguire

December 22 2009, 05:17:56 UTC 7 years ago

The latter. :)