A logo's outstanding Easter egg

Tom Crawford and Evan & Katelyn Heling discuss a question about a colourful cup.

GUESTS:

HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.

EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.

[Cossieuk]

When you see the logo it is so obvious but just hearing it makes it really hard to picture

[glenng]

Can we get Tom Lum and find another Tom and have a 4-way Tom lateral podcast someday?

[BearJoyner]

Has there been an all-Tom episode yet? I think that would be funny. Tom Scott, Tom Crawford, Tom Lum, and...Thomas Sanders? I'm not sure who the 4th should be

[JoeBleasdaleReal]

This put me in mind of the Eurovision 2020/21 logo which was a circle that contained the flag colours of each country in order of the year they first competed

[fragglet]

This is similar to a de Bruijn sequence which contains all permutations of a string (though in this case it's only certain permutations). The usual example case with de Bruijn sequences is generating the shortest string that tries every number of a combination lock

[sirprintalot]

Tom's idea for pointing to the location was just the Eurovision 2020/2021 logo which did the same thing.

[TakeruDavis]

Very smart. Also, some countries use the same colors in different arangements. Red, blue, white is a very popular combo, you put those down next to each other and you included at least a half a dozen countries in one swoop.

[mshonle]

Gray Codes but with flags instead of numeric sequences… clever!

[isaacbobjork]

When Tom Scott is saying that The Dutch will be angry because orange is not on it, it looks like a really old Netherlands flag is hanging behind him, the one from their revolution with orange in it.

[ianlee]

There is a college basketball tournament in America that does something similar.

So, in college basketball, there are different conferences where teams play, and each one has a tournament to determine a winner who will move on to the national tournament—March Madness. One of these conferences, the Big Ten (which, ironically has 18 teams, but that’s neither here nor there…), has a logo for their basketball championship consisting of a pinwheel where every team’s colors are represented. It’s quite cool to look at.

[mmessi]

So cool! Whoever thought of that idea is very creative

[Blackwoodcwc]

My first thought was the correct one, but I envisioned it as vertical bars along the bottom, so when Tom described it as more of a sunburst behind the logo, I thought I was wrong.

[lucbloom]

We would not be angry that orange wouldn't be on it. We would be "meh"

[PimMiii]

Tom's idea at roughly 5:30 is, if i remember correctly, incorporated in another logo: Eurovision 2021.

[Ashebrethafe]

4:52 I wasn't picturing _concentric_ rings -- I was thinking it looked like the trophy was sitting on a cylinder, the side of which was divided into 24 rings.

[WPPatriot]

I'm an avid listener to the podcast, and I've got to say that it's rather weird (but also cool) to see the people attached to these voices!

[elisam.r.]

Okay, who else wants Linus Boman to appear on Lateral?

Also, I snorted at the "other Tom" bit.

[thorns]

I checked how the logo looked, did not find information about it, but I do have an idea that it would be the colours of the maps of the participating countries. Not idea if that is right or not.

[benaycock]

Tom Crawford looks like Eddie Redmayne mixed with Tilda Swinton

[alanreader]

Is It the Return of Citation Needed Series 9 lol 😂