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Another name for the Fano plane design — The Ghostly Hallows.
From a search in this journal for Ghostly —
Friday, December 25, 2020
Design Theory
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Sunday, March 19, 2017
Raiders of the Lost Blocks
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Monday, January 2, 2017
Sitcom Theology
"William Christopher, best known for playing Father Mulcahy
on the hit sitcom M*A*S*H , died Saturday [Dec. 31, 2016] of
lung cancer, his agent confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
He was 84.
Christopher died at his home in Pasadena, with his wife by
his bedside, at 5:10 a.m. on New Year's Eve, according to a
statement from his agent."
— 5:59 PM PST 12/31/2016 by Meena Jang
Image reshown in this journal on the midnight (Eastern time)
preceding Christopher's death —
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From a Log24 search for "Deathly Hallows" —
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Those who prefer Latin with their theology
may search this journal for "In Nomine Patris."
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Deathly Hallows
The previous post, on the July 13 death of computer scientist Robert Fano,
suggests a review of "Deathly Hallows" posts in this journal. From that review —
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Thursday, June 11, 2015
Omega
Omega is a Greek letter, Ω , used in mathematics to denote
a set on which a group acts.
For instance, the affine group AGL(3,2) is a group of 1,344
actions on the eight elements of the vector 3-space over the
two-element Galois field GF(2), or, if you prefer, on the Galois
field Ω = GF(8).
Related fiction: The Eight , by Katherine Neville.
Related non-fiction: A remark by Werner Heisenberg
in this journal on Saturday, June 6, 2015, the eightfold cube ,
and the illustrations below —
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Pyramid Dance
Oslo artist Josefine Lyche has a new Instagram post,
this time on pyramids (the monumental kind).
My response —
Wikipedia's definition of a tetrahedron as a
"triangle-based pyramid" …
… and remarks from a Log24 post of August 14, 2013 :
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Norway dance (as interpreted by an American)
I prefer a different, Norwegian, interpretation of "the dance of four."
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See also some of Burkard Polster's triangle-based pyramids
and a 1983 triangle-based pyramid in a paper that Polster cites —
(Click image below to enlarge.)
Some other illustrations that are particularly relevant
for Lyche, an enthusiast of magic :
From On Art and Magic (May 5, 2011) —
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(Updated at about 7 PM ET on Dec. 3.)
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Magic for Jews
(Continued from April 8, 2013.)
See Two Blocks Short of a Design (May 5, 2011).
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
On Art and Magic
Two Blocks Short of a Design:
A sequel to this morning’s post on Douglas Hofstadter
Photo of Hofstadter by Mike McGrath taken May 13, 2006 |
Related material — See Lyche’s “Theme and Variations” in this journal
and Hofstadter’s “Variations on a Theme as the Essence of Imagination”
— Scientific American October 1982
A quotation from a 1985 book by Hofstadter—
“… we need to entice people with the beauties of clarity, simplicity, precision,
elegance, balance, symmetry, and so on.
Those artistic qualities… are the things that I have tried to explore and even
to celebrate in Metamagical Themas . (It is not for nothing that the word
‘magic’ appears inside the title!)”
The artistic qualities Hofstadter lists are best sought in mathematics, not in magic.
An example from Wikipedia —
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