"When you come to a fork . . . ." — Yogi Berra (?)
The Observable site does not work in my Chrome browser.
To play with it, use Firefox. For a more straightforward
JavaScript program see the Diamond 16 Puzzle.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
The Observable Fork
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Monday, September 2, 2019
Code Explorer
At present, the above Ajna page is not functioning in my Chrome browser
and is only partly functioning in Edge, but seems OK in Firefox.
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Sunday, June 3, 2018
Trinity Stone
Or: "What Dreams May Come"
(For the foxtail girl)
"Most religious beliefs are not true. But here’s the crux.
The emotional brain doesn’t care. It doesn’t operate on
the grounds of true and false. Emotions are not true or false.
Even a terrible fear inside a dream is still a terrible fear."
— Stephen T. Asma in the New York Times philosophy
column "The Stone" today
See also Triple Cross.
In greater depth:
Posts tagged on131004, a tag derived from a date in
a Google search today …
For enthusiasts of symbology, a webpage illustrated here this morning —
.
This morning's review of this Ajna webpage was suggested by posts from
the Oct. 4, 2013, date in the Google crux search above.
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6/3
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content="Identidade generativa para o Diamonds Studio
Desenvolvido em conjunto com
http://quadradao.com.br/
http://diamondsstudio.com.br/
Baseado na Diamond Theory by Steven H Cullinane, 1977">
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Monday, October 10, 2016
Mono Type 1, by Sultan (1966)
"Sultan" was a pseudonym of Peter Lindbergh, now a
well-known fashion photographer. Click image for the source.
Related art — Diamond Theory Roullete, by Radames Ajna,
2013 (Processing code at ReCode Project based on
"Diamond Theory" by Steven H. Cullinane, 1977).
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Saturday, October 8, 2016
Unity of Opposites: Plato and Beyond
The "unity" of the title was suggested by this morning's update
at the end of yesterday's post Paz.
For the Plato of the title, see the Sept. 27, 2016, post
Chomsky and Lévi-Strauss in China
Or: Philosophy for Jews
For glyphs representing the "unity of opposites" of the title,
see a webpage linked to here on Groundhog Day 2014 —
The above image is related to Jung's remarks on Coincidentia
Oppositorum . (See also coincidentia in this journal.)
A different Jung, in a new video with analogues of the rapidly
flashing images in Ajna's webpage "Diamond Theory Roullete" —
The above video promotes Google's new open-source "Noto" font —
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Friday, October 23, 2015
Square Inch Space (Continued*)
* See "Square Inch Space" in this journal.
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Retro or Not?
Happy birthday to the late Michael Crichton (Harvard ’64).
See also Diamond Theory Roulette —
Part of the ReCode Project (http://recodeproject.com). Based on "Diamond Theory" by Steven H. Cullinane, originally published in "Computer Graphics and Art" Vol. 2 No. 1, February 1977. Copyright (c) 2013 Radames Ajna — OSI/MIT license (http://recodeproject/license).
Related remarks on Plato for Harvard’s
Graduate School of Design —
See also posts from the above publication date, March 31,
2006, among posts now tagged “The Church in Philadelphia.”
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
Unicode Diamonds
The following figure, intended to display as
a black diamond, was produced with
HTML and Unicode characters. Depending
on the technology used to view it, the figure
may contain gaps or overlaps.
◢◣
◥◤
Some variations:
◤◥
◣◢
◤◥
◢◣
◤◣
◢◥
◤◣
◥◢
Such combined Unicode characters —
◢ black lower right triangle,
◣ black lower left triangle,
᭘ black upper left triangle,
᭙ black upper right triangle
— might be used for a text-only version of the Diamond 16 Puzzle
that is more easily programmed than the current version.
The tricky part would be coding the letter-spacing and
line-height to avoid gaps or overlaps within the figures in
a variety of browsers. The w3.org visual formatting model
may or may not be helpful here.
Update of 11:20 PM ET March 15, 2015 —
Seekers of simplicity should note that there is
a simple program in the Processing.js language, not using
such Unicode characters, that shows many random affine
permutations of a 4×4 diamond-theorem array when the
display window is clicked.
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Monday, January 5, 2015
Autodesk Art
For some backstory, see Ajna in this journal
as well as Groundhog Day, 2014.
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Sunday, March 9, 2014
At Play in the Fields of Brazil
From Facebook, a photo from the Feast of St. Francis, 2013:
Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, author of the 1976 paper “Finite
Geometries in the Theory of Theta Characteristics,” in Brasilia—
On the same date, art from Inception and from Diamonds Studio
in Brazil —
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Code
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From Northrop Frye's The Great Code: The Bible and Literature , Ch. 3: Metaphor I — "In the preceding chapter we considered words in sequence, where they form narratives and provide the basis for a literary theory of myth. Reading words in sequence, however, is the first of two critical operations. Once a verbal structure is read, and reread often enough to be possessed, it 'freezes.' It turns into a unity in which all parts exist at once, without regard to the specific movement of the narrative. We may compare it to the study of a music score, where we can turn to any part without regard to sequential performance. The term 'structure,' which we have used so often, is a metaphor from architecture, and may be misleading when we are speaking of narrative, which is not a simultaneous structure but a movement in time. The term 'structure' comes into its proper context in the second stage, which is where all discussion of 'spatial form' and kindred critical topics take their origin." |
Related material:
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"The Great Code does not end with a triumphant conclusion or the apocalypse that readers may feel is owed them or even with a clear summary of Frye’s position, but instead trails off with a series of verbal winks and nudges. This is not so great a fault as it would be in another book, because long before this it has been obvious that the forward motion of Frye’s exposition was illusory, and that in fact the book was devoted to a constant re-examination of the same basic data from various closely related perspectives: in short, the method of the kaleidoscope. Each shake of the machine produces a new symmetry, each symmetry as beautiful as the last, and none of them in any sense exclusive of the others. And there is always room for one more shake."
— Charles Wheeler, "Professor Frye and the Bible," South Atlantic Quarterly 82 (Spring 1983), pp. 154-164, reprinted in a collection of reviews of the book. |
For code in a different sense, but related to the first passage above,
see Diamond Theory Roullete, a webpage by Radamés Ajna.
For "the method of the kaleidoscope" mentioned in the second
passage above, see both the Ajna page and a webpage of my own,
Kaleidoscope Puzzle.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Followers
I do not follow the Public Library of Science (PLOS), although,
as shown above, I do follow some of the followers.
This post was suggested by Amy Hubbard's recent reference
to a PLOS article on beliefs in Hell.
Pop culture seems more informative. Readers of the PLOS article
should also know about the Dakota, John Lennon, and Rosemary's
Baby, as well as Woody Allen, The Ninth Gate , and Plan 9 from
Outer Space.
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Sunday, February 2, 2014
Diamond Theory Roulette
A ReCode Project program from Radamés Ajna of São Paulo —
At the program's webpage, click the image to
generate random permutations of rows, columns,
and quadrants. Note the resulting image's ordinary
or color-interchange symmetry.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Levity
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Sunday October 14, 2007
The Dipolar God
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"Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
— Wallace Stevens, |
Yesterday's meditation ("Simon's Shema") on the interpenetration of opposites continues:
Part I: The Jewel in the Lotus
"The fundamental conception of Tantric Buddhist metaphysics, namely, yuganaddha, signifies the coincidence of opposites. It is symbolized by the conjugal embrace (maithuna or kama-kala) of a god and goddess or a Buddha and his consort (signifying karuna and sunyata or upaya and prajna, respectively), also commonly depicted in Tantric Buddhist iconography as the union of vajra (diamond sceptre) and padme (lotus flower). Thus, yuganaddha essentially means the interpenetration of opposites or dipolar fusion, and is a fundamental restatement of Hua-yen theoretic structures."
— p. 148 in "Part II: A Whiteheadian Process Critique of Hua-yen Buddhism," in Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration vs. Interpenetration (SUNY Series in Systematic Philosophy), by Steve Odin, State University of New York Press, 1982
Part II: The Dipolar God
And on p. 163 of Odin, op. cit., in "Part III: Theology of the Deep Unconscious: A Reconstruction of Process Theology," in the section titled "Whitehead's Dipolar God as the Collective Unconscious"–
"An effort is made to transpose Whitehead's theory of the dipolar God into the terms of the collective unconscious, so that now the dipolar God is to be comprehended not as a transcendent deity, but the deepest dimension and highest potentiality of one's own psyche."
Part III: Piled High and Deep
Odin obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook in 1980. (See curriculum vitae (pdf).)
For an academic review of Odin's book, see David Applebaum, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 34 (1984), pp. 107-108.
It is perhaps worth noting, in light of the final footnote of Mark D. Brimblecombe's Ph.D. thesis "Dipolarity and God" quoted yesterday, that "tantra" is said to mean "loom." For some less-academic background on the Tantric iconography Odin describes, see the webpage "Love and Passion in Tantric Buddhist Art." For a fiction combining love and passion with the word "loom" in a religious context, see Clive Barker's Weaveworld. This fiction– which is, if not "supreme" in the Wallace Stevens sense, at least entertaining– may correspond to some aspects of the deep Jungian psychological reality discussed by Odin.
Actors portraying
Arendt and Heidegger
Arendt and Heidegger
Click on image for details.
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