An animated GIF that shows the basic unit for
the "design cube" pages at finitegeometry.org —
From a post of Dec. 8, 2010, the (somewhat) related Stella Octangula —
Friday, September 1, 2023
Stella!
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Thursday, August 6, 2020
Structure and Mutability . . .
See a Log24 search for Beadgame Space.
This post might be regarded as a sort of “checked cell”
for the above concepts listed as tags . . .
Related material from a Log24 search for Structuralism —
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Saturday, October 20, 2018
Thursday, December 22, 2016
The Meadow in December
… "icy white and crystalline" — Johnny Mercer
From a search in this journal for Hudson Hawk —
See also Stella Octangula.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Ethno-Aesthetics
"Lévi-Strauss is an infatuated aesthetician."
— Boris Wiseman, Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics ,
Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 27
Last night's link from the Piper Laurie image leads to …
Related theoretical material — See Hudson + Tetrahedra.
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Stella
In the spirit of last night's SNL Hanukkah version of "It's a Wonderful Life" —
A Geometric Merkabah for Hanukkah from December 1, and…
"The Homepage of Contemporary Structuralism" (click to enlarge) —
Detail —
Summary —
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
A Geometric Merkabah*
For Hanukkah (which starts this evening)—
Part I — The Stella Octangula (see also Monday's ART WARS post)—
Part II — A different view of the Stella —
Click images for some mathematical background.
For some philosophical background on illusion and reality, see Graham Priest in the Sunday, Nov. 28, New York Times column "The Stone" and in a work of fiction he published in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (Vol. 38, No. 4) in 1997.
* See Google Images for pictures that are less academically respectable.
For some related religious lore, see Merkabah at Wikipedia.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
ART WARS
In memory of Irvin Kershner,
director of A FIne Madness and
The Empire Strikes Back
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