[Meep-discuss] The Meep logo

[John Weiner]

Dear Meep Users, Maintainers, and Developers,

The Meep logo, e.g. on the first page of readthedocs, https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ <https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>, shows a clock face set to 18 minutes past 8 o’clock. Does anyone know the origin and meaning of this logo?

Best regards,

John

[Ardavan Oskooi]

Post by John Weiner
The Meep logo, e.g. on the first page of readthedocs,
https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, shows a clock face set to 18
minutes past 8 o’clock.  Does anyone know the origin and meaning of
this logo?

The time shown on the Meep clock is a reference to two academic
departments at MIT which are based on a numbering system: 8 (Physics)
and 18 (Mathematics). These departments are home to the research groups
of John Joannopoulos and Steven Johnson in which Meep originated. The
logo was created by Steven Johnson.

[John Weiner]

Thanks Ardavan…the answer gives meaning to the logo. The meep community might be interested to know that it is an unwritten, unspoken, (and with each generation more forgotten) tradition for clock makers and merchants in small towns in Pennsylvania to show their clocks and watches, set to 20 minutes past 8…the moment it was said when Lincoln died on 14 April 1865 after suffering a gun shot wound to the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC on the evening of 13 April 1865. The meep logo is reminiscent of that tradition but obviously springs from a different source.

John

The Meep logo, e.g. on the first page of readthedocs, https://meep.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, shows a clock face set to 18 minutes past 8 o’clock. Does anyone know the origin and meaning of this logo?

The time shown on the Meep clock is a reference to two academic departments at MIT which are based on a numbering system: 8 (Physics) and 18 (Mathematics). These departments are home to the research groups of John Joannopoulos and Steven Johnson in which Meep originated. The logo was created by Steven Johnson.
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