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" Brill has tried out a variety of grid-scrambling transformations
to see what happens. Aesthetic sensibilities govern which
transformation to use, what size the rectangular grid should be,
and which iteration to look at, he says. 'Once a fruitful
transformation, rectangle size, and iteration number have been
found, the artist is in a position to create compelling imagery.' "

— "Scrambled Grids," August 28, 2000

Or not.

If aesthetic sensibilities lead to a 23-cycle on a 4×6 grid, the results
may not be pretty —

From "Geometry of the 4×4 Square."

See a Log24 post, Noncontinuous Groups, on Broomsday 2009.

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Friday, September 6, 2024

Rolling Stone Obituary Note

Filed under: General — Tags: Summer Love — m759 @ 8:00 pm

A Rolling Stone obituary today for Sérgio Mendes suggests . . .

Related material from this journal . . .

Umberto Eco,
Foucault’s Pendulum,
page 176:

Here, too, you entered through a little garden…

Amparo drew me aside as we went in. “I’ve figured it out,” she said. “That tapir at the lecture talked about the Aryan age, remember? And this one talks about the decline of the West. Blut und Boden, blood and earth. It’s pure Nazism.”

“It’s not that simple, darling. This is a different continent.”….

If the outside was seedy, the inside was a blaze of violent colors. It was a quadrangular hall, with one area set aside for the dancing of the cavalos. The altar was at the far end, protected by a railing, against which stood the platform for the drums, the atabaques. The ritual space was still empty….

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Saturday, October 21, 2023

Chapter 11 Continues: A Larger Box

Filed under: General — Tags: Fields of Force, Iconology 2023, Priority — m759 @ 12:00 pm

"… really we should use larger boxes." — Ursula K. Le Guin

"The Steiner system S (5, 8, 24) is a block design
made up of 24 points and 759 blocks, each of size 8,
with the property that every 5 points lie in exactly one block.
This design is naturally associated with the Golay code, and
its automorphism group is the simple Mathieu group M₂₄;
see [3, Ch. 11].

3. J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane, Sphere Packings,
Lattices and Groups, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988."

— New Zealand Journal of Mathematics,
Volume 25 (1996), 133-139.
"Markings of the Golay Code," by
Marston Conder and John McKay.
(Received July 1995.)

See also the Harlan Kane Special from Broomsday 2023.
That post relates properties of the 4×4 box (Cullinane, 1979)
to those of the 4×6 box (Conway and Sloane, 1988, without
mention of Cullinane 1979).

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Hot Snakes

Filed under: General — Tags: Copenhagen Interpretation, Oct. 12 2023 — m759 @ 12:07 am

Update of 12:32 AM Oct. 12:

Metadata —

See also this journal on October 16th, 2018 — Broomsday.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Play

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:39 pm

See as well this journal on the above date — Broomsday 2014.

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Saturday, June 26, 2021

Critical Space Theory: The Three Stooges at Harvard

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:49 am

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Brick Joke

Filed under: General — Tags: Brick Symmetry, Kummerhenge, Octad, Octad Generator, Octad Group, Overarching Group, Synchronology, The Lindelof Watchmen — m759 @ 10:56 am

The "bricks" in posts tagged Octad Group suggest some remarks
from last year's HBO "Watchmen" series —

Related material — The two bricks constituting a 4×4 array, and . . .

"(this is the famous Kummer abstract configuration )"
— Igor Dolgachev, ArXiv, 16 October 2019.

As is this —

The phrase "octad group" does not, as one might reasonably
suppose, refer to symmetries of an octad (a "brick"), but
instead to symmetries of the above 4×4 array.

A related Broomsday event for the Church of Synchronology —

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Axis of Anti-Evil?

Filed under: General — Tags: Synchronology — m759 @ 3:16 pm

"ACTUALLY HAPPENED!"

Wolff reportedly did on Sunday, Feb. 17.

For the Church of Synchronology —

Log24 posts on the reported date of Wolff's death.

Related Log24 post — Good News and Bad News.

Wolff himself, in a weblog post of Oct. 16, 2017,*
had some trenchant comments on religion . . .
See "How Odd of God." (See as well today's midnight
post in this journal, "Ghost in the Shell.")

* "Broomsday." See also Log24 posts on that date.

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Review:

Filed under: General — Tags: Oct 4 2018 — m759 @ 9:00 pm

The previous post suggests a review of . . .

Broomsday 2004.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Broom Bridge*

Filed under: General — Tags: Mythspace, on0418 — m759 @ 1:29 pm

The Hamilton watch from "Interstellar" (2014) —

On the above date — Nov. 17, 2016 —

* See posts tagged Broomsday 2014.

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Seeking Kleos

Filed under: General — Tags: Broomsday 2014 — m759 @ 6:22 pm

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, quoted in a webpage dated
October 7, 2014 (presumably according to Australian time):

"For the Athenians, kleos mattered more than anything,
according to Goldstein.

'Kleos is fame: it’s the deed that brings fame, it’s the poem
that sings your triumphs, it’s having your life replicated in
other minds, acquiring a kind of moreness, a kind of
secular immortality.' "

Related material:

A check of Goldstein's definition…

… and an image for Broomsday:

Rebecca Goldstein and a Cullinane quaternion

From Argument for the Existence of Rebecca (Feb. 6, 2010)

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Broom Bridge Day

Filed under: General — Tags: Broomsday 2014 — m759 @ 11:07 am

Wikipedia on Broom (or Broome, or Brougham) Bridge,
where on 16 October 1843 Hamilton discovered quaternions:

"The 16 October is sometimes referred to as
Broomsday (in reference to Broome Bridge)
and as a nod to the literary commemorations
on 16 June (Bloomsday in honour of James Joyce)."