Monday, September 11, 2023
Jill Lepore of Harvard in The New Yorker today —
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"In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the Year: 'This is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit: clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P. T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie and Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.' Right about when Time was preparing that giddy announcement, three women whose ovaries and uteruses were involved in passing down the madcap man-god’s genes were in the maternity ward of a hospital in Austin. Musk believes a declining birth rate is a threat to civilization and, with his trademark tirelessness, is doing his visionary edgelord best to ward off that threat."
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Some vocabulary background —
See also this journal on that date —
The face at lower left above is that of an early Design edgelord.
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Friday, September 1, 2023
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 —
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Friday, July 21, 2023
From https://clever-chat.ai/demo/32f6d9c9107/complete
at about 3 PM ET on Friday, July 21, 2023 —
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Hi there 👋 I'm a self-service chatbot and I'm here to help you with anything related to Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube. Just ask away! 🙂
What is the diamond theorem?
The Diamond Theorem is a mathematical concept that was introduced by Steven H. Cullinane. It is closely related to finite geometry and explores the symmetries and patterns found in diamond-shaped arrays. The theorem has applications in various areas, including combinatorial designs, group theory, and quantum information theory. If you'd like more information or have any specific questions about the Diamond Theorem, feel free to ask! 😊
Is this website related to the work of Peter J. Cameron?
No, the website "Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube" is not directly related to the work of Peter J. Cameron. It is primarily focused on the study of finite geometry, particularly the symmetries and patterns found in square and cube arrays. The website is authored by Steven H. Cullinane, who has made significant contributions to the field. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask! 😊
What is the theorem of Desargues?
The theorem of Desargues, named after the French mathematician Gérard Desargues, is a fundamental result in projective geometry. It states that if two triangles are perspective from a point, then they are perspective from a line as well. In other words, if the three pairs of corresponding sides of two triangles intersect at three points that are collinear, then the three pairs of corresponding vertices of the triangles are collinear as well. This theorem has important implications in the study of projective geometry and has applications in various fields, including computer graphics and architecture. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask! 😊
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Sunday, July 2, 2023
This afternoon's Windows lockscreen is Badlands National Park —
From this morning's post, a phrase from Schopenhauer —
"Apparent Design in the Fate of the Individual."
An apparent design in the philosophy of Optimus Prime —
"Before time began, there was the Cube" —
Click the image for further remarks.
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
A coffin-like image from yesterday —
.
This suggests a review:
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
From the above image: "/gds_rip/" —
Related geek lore:
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
Sturgeon versus Plato —
Sturgeon's Dreaming Jewels meet Plato's Righteous Gemstones.
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
Transcribed from a PDF:
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Received September 29, 2019, accepted October 15, 2019,
date of publication October 24, 2019, date of current version
November 7, 2019.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949310
A Method for Determining
the Affine Equivalence of Boolean Functions
ZIYU WANG1 , XIAO ZENG1 , JINZHAO WU2,3, AND
GUOWU YANG1
1Big Data Research Center, School of Computer Science
and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology
of China, Chengdu 611731, China
2Guangxi Key Laboratory of Hybrid Computation and
IC Design Analysis, Guangxi University for Nationalities,
Nanning 530006, China
3School of Computer and Electronic Information,
Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Corresponding authors:
Jinzhao Wu (gxmdwjzh@aliyun.com) and
Guowu Yang (ygwuestc@163.com)
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation
of China under Grant 61772006 and Grant 61572109, in part by the
State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in part by the Science and Technology
Program of Guangxi under Grant AB17129012, in part by the Science and
Technology Major Project of Guangxi under Grant AA17204096, in part by
the Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Bases and Talents
of Guangxi under Grant 2016AD05050, and in part by the Special Fund for
Bagui Scholars of Guangxi, in part by the Open fund of State Key Laboratory
of Information Security.
ABSTRACT
Determining the affine equivalence of Boolean functions
has significant applications in circuit and cryptography.
Previous methods for determining this require a large
amount of computation when Boolean functions are bent
functions or when the truth table is sparse. This paper
presents a new method to determine the affine equivalence
based on matrix algebra. By transforming Boolean function
to the corresponding matrix representation, we first propose
and prove the congruent standard form of Boolean function.
It lays the foundation for the determination of equivalence
because affine Boolean functions must have the same
standard form. Then we find the generators of orthogonal
matrix group and symplectic matrix group, which greatly
reduce the search space. The computation complexity of
our method is o (2r2/2+n∗(n−r) ), where n is the number of
bit operations, and r is the rank of the matrix, which is
the product of Boolean-1 matrix of the test Boolean function
and its transposition. The experimental results show that our
method is useful when the test Boolean function is no more
than 7 bits and r is greater than 2.
INDEX TERMS Logic synthesis, Boolean functions,
affine equivalence, matrix group, algorithm.
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Meanwhile . . .
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Saturday, June 3, 2023
In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —
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From Log24 on May 29
and the preceding day —
"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."
Don't take the Brown acid!
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Tags: Breadcrumbs for Gretel — m759 @ 3:47 PM
Continues .
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See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
The opening of the new Netflix film FUBAR suggests a review . . .
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Cullinane diamond theorem —
"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." … Good summary.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Related reading — Oxford … Harvard.
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Monday, May 15, 2023
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By ChatGPT* —
What is the Cullinane diamond theorem?
5/10/2023, revised as below on 5/15/2023
The Cullinane Diamond Theorem, also known as the Diamond Theorem, is a result in combinatorial mathematics proposed by Steven H. Cullinane. The theorem explores connections between finite geometries, algebraic structures, and combinatorial designs.
The theorem is primarily concerned with four related structures:
1. Finite geometries: Specifically, the theorem relates to finite projective geometries over finite fields, such as projective planes and projective spaces.
2. Vector spaces: The theorem connects finite vector spaces over finite fields to the aforementioned finite geometries.
3. Boolean functions:* The theorem establishes relationships between the finite geometries and certain Boolean functions derived from them.
4. Symmetry groups: The theorem involves symmetry groups associated with the finite geometries.
The precise details and implications of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem are beyond the scope of this response. It involves abstract algebra, group theory, combinatorial designs, and finite fields. The theorem has been the subject of various publications and research discussions in mathematical literature. If you are interested in delving deeper into the Cullinane Diamond Theorem, I recommend referring to the original works by Steven H. Cullinane and related research articles on the topic.
* With one revision by Cullinane: "Boolean functions" replaces "Boolean algebras." See (for instance) M. A. Harrison, “On the classification of Boolean functions by the general linear and affine groups,” Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1964 12:2, 285-299.
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Saturday, May 6, 2023
The above illustration is from Log24 on the dies natalis —
day of birth into heaven, in the Catholic tradition —
of Grace C. Hertlein, a sort of patron saint of computer art
from Chico, California, who reportedly died at 91 in 2015.
It supplies the parts missing from a J. K. Rowling design…
See Cinco de Mayo , 2011.
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Continued from yesterday's "Kernel" —
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
has a news release today on an expert on "kernels,"
in the sense that they are used in AI —
"Schölkopf [link added] is recognized for his
widely used research in machine learning,
advancing both mathematical foundations and
a broad range of applications in science and
industry."
From Schölkopf in 2002 —
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Sunday, April 23, 2023
The logo of MUSE, the band —
A logo I prefer . . .
Related material from a post of October 2020 —
Related material from a post on the above Reddit date —
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A Story That Works
“There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering
their tales and always seeking the three miracles —
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that minds should really touch, or
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that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story,
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or (perhaps the same thing) that there should be a story
that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with
no illusions and no fantasy;
and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing,
mortal me.”
– Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“
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Saturday, April 22, 2023
Not a hood ornament .
("Take the picture,
take the picture!" )
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Continued from April 3 . . .
"All we want are the facts." — Jack Webb
As opposed to cute doodles —
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
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And then there is Bardo College . . .
For a young-adult novelist who reportedly died at 71 on March 21 —
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The previous post referenced the "pretty mama" of "Cocktail" (1988).
Earlier, in 1975, there was a more serious song to a pretty mama . . .
One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
We're gonna find out, pretty mama
What turns on your lights
See as well "Dreaming Jewels" and . . .
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Monday, March 6, 2023
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Sunday, February 26, 2023
Saturday, February 11, 2023
The New York Times on a set designer who
reportedly died at 83 on Monday (Feb. 6, 2023) —
"Adrian Hall, the founding artistic director,
brought him in as resident designer.
(Mr. Hall died on Feb. 4 in Van, Texas.)"
Hall was the founding artistic director of
Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, R.I.
Not-so-holy writ ….
Panthers — "Dimensions," Log24, Feb. 5, 2023.
Beast Belly — Tonight's previous post, "Gutter Mathematics."
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Friday, February 10, 2023
From the Feb. 7 post "The Graduate School of Design" —
Related material —
Illustrations — From The previous post . . .
From Google —
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Monday, February 6, 2023
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You, Xi-lin; Zhang, Peter. "Interality in Heidegger."
The Free Library , April 1, 2015.
. . . .
The term "interology" is meant as an interventional alternative to traditional Western ontology. The idea is to help shift people's attention and preoccupation from subjects, objects, and entities to the interzones, intervals, voids, constitutive grounds, relational fields, interpellative assemblages, rhizomes, and nothingness that lie between, outside, or beyond the so-called subjects, objects, and entities; from being to nothing, interbeing, and becoming; from self-identicalness to relationality, chance encounters, and new possibilities of life; from "to be" to "and … and … and …" (to borrow Deleuze's language); from the actual to the virtual; and so on. As such, the term wills nothing short of a paradigm shift. Unlike other "logoi," which have their "objects of study," interology studies interality, which is a non-object, a no-thing that in-forms and constitutes the objects and things studied by other logoi.
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Some remarks from this journal on April 1, 2015 —
The above site, finitegeometry.org/sc, illustrates how the symmetry
of various visual patterns is explained by what Zhang calls "interality."
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Sunday, February 5, 2023
Cullinane, 1977 —
Patterns in the space
between subsquares —
Designer unknown, 2023 —
Figures in the space
between fingers —
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Sunday, January 15, 2023
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Friday, January 13, 2023
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Mathematical Structures
Posted on 13/01/2023 by Peter Cameron
My last major job at Queen Mary University of London more than ten years ago was designing and presenting a new first-semester first-year module to be taken by all students on mathematics programmes or joint programmes involving mathematics. I discussed it in my LMS-Gresham lecture.
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LMS
Gresham
"… seeds having fallen on barren rock, as it were" . . .
See today's previous Log24 post.
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Monday, January 9, 2023
Evolution of an image . . .
( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )
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Saturday, December 31, 2022
This post was suggested by a "matrix rotator" photo dated 1953-03-02.
Some context — Kracauer's notion of "mass ornament."
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Today's previous post "The Urn" suggests a look at . . .
How to Solve The New York Times Crossword
By Deb Amlen. Illustrations by Elena Xausa.
Animations by Lorenzo Fonda.
That web page is undated, but its HTML source contains
43 instances of the date 2017-10-18.
See as well "Three Small Grids," a post from this journal on 2017-10-18.
Related material — Today's 3:05 PM ET New York Times obituary
for the above crossword guide illustrator, Elena Xausa —
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Monday, December 19, 2022
Midrash from Philip Pullman . . .
"The 1929 Einstein-Carmichael Expedition"
I prefer the 1929 Emch-Carmichael expedition —
This is from . . .
“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”
— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))
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“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln . . .”
Sunday, November 20, 2022
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Also by Ivan Brunetti —
For Log24 posts from the above New York Times dates, see May Play.
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Friday, November 18, 2022
Cohen on Kiefer's art site:
" La Ribaute is hard to classify. It is now controlled by
a foundation for which Kiefer chose the name 'Eschaton,'
meaning the final event in the divine plan, or the end of
the world. 'You can say it’s the end of the beginning,'
Kiefer said. 'Eschaton means that something comes after.'
So why, I asked, did he pick this name? 'Because it’s the
beginning.' "
I prefer T. S. Eliot on ends and beginnings, as well as
R. A. Wilson on the Eschaton.
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Monday, October 31, 2022
Folklore —
Earlier in that same journal . . .
Mathematics —
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Friday, October 21, 2022
Some will prefer the saddle shape of
Capilla Abierta.
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Friday, October 14, 2022
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Saturday, October 1, 2022
Also on the above Berlin date —
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Filed under: General — Tags: Bullshit Studies, Glasperlenspiel
— m759 @ 3:12 PM
The essay excerpted in last night's post on structuralism
is of value as part of a sustained attack by the late
Robert de Marrais on the damned nonsense of the late
French literary theorist Jacques Derrida—
Catastrophes, Kaleidoscopes, String Quartets:
Deploying the Glass Bead Game
Part I: Ministrations Concerning Silliness, or:
Is “Interdisciplinary Thought” an Oxymoron?
Part II: Canonical Collage-oscopes, or:
Claude in Jacques’ Trap? Not What It Sounds Like!
Part III: Grooving on the Sly with Klein Groups
Part IV: Claude’s Kaleidoscope . . . and Carl’s
Part V: Spelling the Tree, from Aleph to Tav
(While Not Forgetting to Shin)
The response of de Marrais to Derrida's oeuvre nicely
exemplifies the maxim of Norman Mailer that
"At times, bullshit can only be countered
with superior bullshit."
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
"Remember, remember the fifth of November"
— Hugo Weaving in 2005
"If it's Tuesday . . ."
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Monday, September 5, 2022
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
"Where fashion sits" — Song lyric
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Monday, August 22, 2022
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
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Thursday, July 21, 2022
Further combinatorial properties* of 24261120 may
be investigated with the aid of a 9×9 square grid, and
perhaps (eventually) also with its triangular counterpart —
.
* Cap sets, gerechte designs, etc.
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Sunday, July 17, 2022
For the Lily of the title, see The New York Times online tonight
on the life of a socialite-philanthropist who reportedly died on
July 9, 2022.
Related art —
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Friday, July 15, 2022
"You want an original design, tailored to your needs?"
— marcelanowak.com/home
"So, a needle pulling thread…La, a note to follow So…"
— Song lyric
From a recent Log24 Talent Search post —
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The text of https://marcelanowak.com/home/ —
About —
We are a full-service creative agency based in LA.
Graphic and web design is our business.
We attach great importance to ‘craftsmanship’,
but also to service and prompt delivery.
Our past partners – whether they be the government,
trend-setting companies or even private individuals –
have always been appreciative of our
professional dynamism professional dynamism.
Our team is both close-knit and ultra-professional.
You want an original design, tailored to your needs?
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Like "La La Land" — A talent so nice they named it twice!
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
Also on April 1, 2015 —
From the essay cited above —
For the formula of building blocks , see Walsh series.
* See Google.
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"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47)
"Having skipped me, the talent for math concentrated extravagantly
in one of my nieces, Amie Wilkinson, a professor at the University
of Chicago, and I figured she could teach me."
— Wilkinson, Alec. A Divine Language (p. 5).
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 12 July 2022, Kindle Edition.
Career Moves: Compare and Contrast —
"Amie Wilkinson is an explorer. Instead of seeking uncharted land,
she’s after undiscovered mathematical worlds — complex systems
of motion that unfold in unexpected ways. As a professor at the
University of Chicago, she’s known for discovering unique types
of these 'dynamical systems' that had been only conjectured to exist.
Wilkinson’s career has proceeded in a dynamical way, too. She now
approaches her roles as a researcher, teacher and mentor very
differently than she did when she was starting out."
— Kevin Hartnett in Quanta Magazine , June 13, 2019
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The text of https://marcelanowak.com/home/ —
About —
We are a full-service creative agency based in LA.
Graphic and web design is our business.
We attach great importance to ‘craftsmanship’,
but also to service and prompt delivery.
Our past partners – whether they be the government,
trend-setting companies or even private individuals –
have always been appreciative of our
professional dynamism professional dynamism.
Our team is both close-knit and ultra-professional.
You want an original design, tailored to your needs?
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Like "La La Land" — A talent so nice they named it twice!
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Flashback to April 13, 2017 —
See also the post "Making Space"
in this journal on that date.
Related cinematic art:
A new film at Cannes has a character
named "Caprice" —
I prefer a different Caprice . . .
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
An image from Slovenia missed earlier* in the search above —
"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." — Oscar Hammerstein
* See "Robin Wilson" in the Design Grammar post of
19 Oct. 2017. The author of the above document may
or may not be the Robin Wilson of Gresham College.
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Friday, May 6, 2022
An essay from . . .
The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
by Vilem Flusser
Wittgenstein’s Architecture
The universe of texts can be seen as a landscape. In it one can make out mountains and valleys, rivers and lakes, castles, farmyards and inner-city slums. On the horizon of the scene visualized in this way, the Bible and Homer appear as gigantic ice-covered mountains. The vast, tranquil lake of Aristotle’s texts, where fishermen idly throw their nets and philologists row their boats, occupies a part of the valley bottom. There, the tumbling waterfall of Nietzsche is captured by the broad river of modern pragmatism. Towering above everything, the Gothic cathedral of St Thomas Aquinas’s Summae dominates the cathedral square of the city, in which the roofs and gables of Baroque speculations jostle one another. In the suburbs of this city, one catches sight of the Romantic, Realist and Modernist housing-blocks and factories of more recent litera¬ ture; somewhat apart from all these stands a small, apparently insignificant house resembling scaffolding more than a finished building: Wittgenstein’s building.
This little house is called the Tractatus. This name isn’t the product of a one-track mind. For when one enters the house, one notices immediately that this is not a place that has lost track of things. Quite the opposite: It is a place of mirror- images. The house stands on six foundation pillars which support one another by means of cross-beams organized in a hierarchy. In the middle, however, there rises a seventh pillar whose function it is to cut through the building and free it from the ground. So the house with all its corners, angles and joints is protected, armoured and impregnable. And yet, and for that very reason, it is threatened with collapse and disappearance without trace – condemned in advance and from the outset.
The building is set out: It consists of propositions. Every proposition presupposes all the preceding ones and is itself the 76 presupposition of all the following propositions. Proposition by proposition, anyone who enters progresses through the prescribed rooms, and his step is supported by consistencies. Suddenly, with one proposition, one single proposition, the ground gives way beneath his feet. He falls head first into the abyss.
Wittgenstein’s house is situated in a suburb of that city whose cathedral square is dominated by the towers of Thomas Aquinas’s cathedral. The small, modest pillars of Wittgenstein’s house support one another according to the same logico- philosophical method as the pillars of the cathedral support one another. But there appears to be a world of difference between the cathedral and the little house: The cathedral is a ship pointing in the direction of heaven, and the little house is a trap-door pointing in the direction of a bottomless abyss. But be careful: May Thomas Aquinas not have been right in saying after his revelation that everything he had written before was like straw? May not the heaven above the cathedral be the same black hole as the abyss beneath the little house? May not Wittgenstein’s little house be the cathedral of today? And those mirrors whose images simultaneously mirror one another, may they not be our equivalent of stained-glass windows?
The landscape portrayed in this essay, it goes without saying, is a metaphor. Is it possible to identify it as Vienna? And is it possible for anyone entering Wittgenstein’s little house in that unlikely place to make out a hint of the unsayable? What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. 77
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Click the above image to enlarge.
See as well . . .
Update of 2:40 AM May 7, 2022 —
Flusser's seven "pillars" appear to be the main sections of the Tractatus
— numbered 1 through 7, with many intermediate numbered passages.
For a more geometric meditation on "the shape of things," see other
posts tagged "Shape Constant" in this journal.
*Byron Gogol is a tech magnate in the HBO series "Made for Love."
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WIkipedia on the URL suffix ".io" —
"In computer science, "IO" or "I/O" is commonly used
as an abbreviation for input/output, which makes the
.io domain desirable for services that want to be
associated with technology. .io domains are often used
for open source projects, application programming
interfaces ("APIs"), startup companies, browser games,
and other online services."
An association with the Bead Game from a post of April 7, 2018 —
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Glasperlenspiel passage quoted here in Summa Mythologica —
“"I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate
in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually
was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of
symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples,
experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery
and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge.
Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every
transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical
or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment,
if seen with a truly meditative mind, nothing but a direct route
into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation
between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth,
between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created.”
A less poetic meditation on the above 4x4x4 design cube —
"I saw that in the alternation between front and back,
between top and bottom, between left and right,
symmetry is forever being created."
See also a related remark by Lévi-Strauss in 1955:
"…three different readings become possible:
left to right, top to bottom, front to back."
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The recent use by a startup company of the URL "interality.io" suggests
a fourth reading for the 1955 list of Lévi-Strauss — in and out —
i.e., inner and outer group automorphisms — from a 2011 post
on the birthday of T. S. Eliot :
A transformation:
Click on the picture for details.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )
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Saturday, April 9, 2022
Also on the above publication date —
A related noun —
The Conrad coinage —
Conrad K. Die beginnende Schizophrenie.
Stuttgart, Germany: Thieme Verlag; 1958.
Conrad K. Gestaltanalyse und Daseinsanalytik.
Nervenarzt. 1959; 30: 405–410.
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Monday, March 28, 2022
"Design is how it works ." — Steve Jobs. See interality.org.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Fiction —
Non-fiction —
See too . . .
and . . .
Cover design by Will Staehle.
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Sunday, March 13, 2022
Before time began . . .
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Monday, March 7, 2022
Logos as tab icons —
Logos in context —
Related graphic design from April 1, 2018 —
Later, in 2019 —
An undated webpage says . . .
"…we’re officially announcing the launch of the new Beamery brand."
— https://beamery.com/resources/blogs/were-launching-beamerys-new-brand
(metadata: itemprop="datePublished" content="2019-11-20T19:00:00")
This logo design was described elsewhere —
"Beamery's new mark–The Bexa. The Bexa contains the negative space
of 3 Bs rotating clockwise within a hexagon shape to capture Beamery's
3 pillars of the Talent Operating System." — Ben Stafford for Focus Lab
"All things serve the Beamery."
— Slogan adapted from Stephen King.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Instagram two days ago —
Compelled to Layer
"From the moment he penciled his first sketch
for the new Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM)
in Grand Rapids, Mich., architect Kulapat Yantrasast
was inspired by more than art. A native of Thailand
and a partner in the Los Angeles firm Workshop
Hakomori Yantrasast (wHY), Yantrasast, 39, felt
compelled to layer the building's primary role—
as a place for displaying art—with activities that
would naturally attract people. " [Link added.]
— https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/
buildings/gram-green_o , October 4, 2007
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
From "Siri + Wechsler" in this journal —
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For Little Man Tate —
Related material — Wechsler in this journal and
an earlier Siri Hustvedt art novel, from 2003 —
Mark and Lucille, Bill and Violet, Al and Regina,
etc., etc., etc. —
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Related material —
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
For your consideration: "Nightmare Alley" Oscar nominations —
Costume design, production design, cinematography, Best Picture.
See as well the introduction by Nick Tosches to the novel .
A touch I personally like: Over the end credits, Hoagy Carmichael's
"Stardust" plays. From related remarks (here abridged) by poet
David Lehman on November 22, 2015 (the feast of St. Cecilia) —
"Every year on this day I think unfailingly of three things:
— that today is Hoagy Carnichael's birthday ….
— that if time were elastic I would write a series of
popular history novels ….
— that paranoid conspiracy theories … are based on
our fundamental inability to understand events.
From this journal on November 22, 2015 —
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Sunday, February 6, 2022
". . . It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.”
— Wallace Stevens, “The Plain Sense of Things”
"In my end . . . ." — T. S. Eliot
See a note from Sept. 15, 1984
(perhaps the last day of life for Richard Brautigan).
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
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Thursday, December 23, 2021
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
* Marcela Nowak, designer/photographer —
"… someone must accept things the way they are …."
— Philosophical phrase from a dictionary (see above).
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Thursday, November 25, 2021
Two images from a Log24 post of April 14, 2015 —
Image from an marcelanow Instagram story on November 23, 2021 —
Image from marrific (=marcelanow) on November 25, 2021 —
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Thursday, November 18, 2021
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Sunday, November 14, 2021
Α, ϴ, Ω
Alpha, Theta, Omega
Related line:
"Falls the Shadow."
Also from a Culture Desk of sorts:
Related art — Background colors for the letters in the NPR logo —
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime
See also Design Cube.
* According to The Wall Street Journal … and possibly also
dead on October 11th, according to The New York Times .
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
(Continued)
See also Q Tip in this journal (Sept. 5, 2021).
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Saturday, August 7, 2021
And then there is Bardo College . . .
"Katz approaches her subject from every angle,
its relationship to feminism, multiculturalism and
the counterculture, as well as its (now questionable)
cultural appropriation and even its underlying debt
to Minimalism (the use of repetition and the grid)."
This is from a Roberta Smith piece yesterday morning
in The New York Times print version:
"A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 6, 2021,
Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline:
Celebrating a Riotous Decor That Keeps Eyes Moving."
Well, perhaps not every angle.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
(Continued from Math Rights, July 25.)
For Bob Moses, see the July 25 post Math Rights.
For Math in the Media, see the remarks below.
For another perspective on rings, see Square Space.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
“… Which makes it a gilt-edged priority that one of us
gets into that Krell lab and takes that brain boost.”
— American adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest , 1956
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Monday, July 19, 2021
Or: Dreaming of Dinner-Party-Gate
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An Ordinary Evening in New Haven, XXII
Professor Eucalyptus said, “The search
For reality is as momentous as
The search for god.” It is the philosopher’s search
For an interior made exterior
And the poet’s search for the same exterior made
Interior: breathless things broodingly abreath
With the Inhalations of original cold
And of original earliness. Yet the sense
Of cold and earliness is a daily sense,
Not the predicate of bright origin.
Creation is not renewed by images
Of lone wanderers. To re-create, to use
The cold and earliness and bright origin
Is to search. Likewise to say of the evening star,
The most ancient light in the most ancient sky,
That it is wholly an inner light, that it shines
From the sleepy bosom of the real, re-creates,
Searches a possible for its possibleness.
— Wallace Stevens
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For those who prefer not-so-sleepy bosoms, here are two
interior/exterior design notes suggested by the previous post —
Interior:
Exterior:
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
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Sunday, June 27, 2021
Related structural note: This journal on May 23.
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Sunday, May 9, 2021
The Nation (May 7) on Larry McMurtry's bookstore —
"It was as if a tornado had swept up Charing Cross Road
and plopped it down next to a rural Dairy Queen."
Or swept up Buckingham Palace and . . .
Related philosophy —
And . . .
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Sunday, May 2, 2021
“… an internal ‘360’ review — in which staff members
offer anonymous feedback — revealed negative evaluations….”
— The New York Times today on MOCA, the
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
History of the “360 review” —
“The origins are with the German Reichswehr around 1930,
when the military psychologist Johann Baptist Rieffert
developed a methodology to select officer candidates.”
— Wikipedia
Related material suggested by a Harvardwood email today
reporting a recent alumni death —
See also CV Books.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
From Schicksalstag 2012:
EAST LANSING, Mich., Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ —
“The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University,
a new Zaha Hadid-designed contemporary art museum, will open on
Saturday, Nov. 10 . . . .
In Search of Time (on view through February 10, 2013).
In celebrating the opening of this iconic building at
Michigan State University, In Search of Time seeks to explore
the longing artists have held for hundreds of years to express
their relationship to time and memory.”
See also, from Log24, posts now tagged Nov. 10, 2012 , and
posts earlier tagged Battlefield Geometry .
Related material to commemorate Walpurgisnacht 2021 (last night) —
https://www.latimes.com/story/2021-04-30/
photos-eli-broad-philanthropist-art-collector-builder-created-
part-of-the-los-angeles-landscape
Related reading — Notes for Watchmen.
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Sunday, March 28, 2021
From the RSS feed of The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘s site
Arts & Letters Daily this evening —
“Despite the wide scope of his bibliography and reception,
Derrida was a specialist in a subfield of his own design,
more or less: the philosophy of writing, which upends
the privileging of speech over writing that has dominated
Western metaphysics since Plato. This ‘phonocentrism’
(which Derrida yarns into ‘logocentrism,’ and eventually,
‘phallocentrism’) starts from a false premise, that the
moment of utterance in Aristotle’s view is somehow more
rhetorically ‘present’ than the kairos of writing….”
— Andrew Marzoni, March 10, 2021:
“Outside the Text: Jacques Derrida resists
easy canonization in a new hagiography for the Left.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/outside-the-text-marzoni
A related image from this journal
on that same date, March 10, 2021:
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
From a Log24 post of Friday, February 26, 2021 —
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( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. ) |
This image may be regarded as memorializing a photographer
who died at 80 on Feb. 26 and who
“captured Warhol’s self-designed mythology in the making”
— Alex Vadukul in The New York Times today
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Monday, March 15, 2021
” ‘Dreams are designed to help us maintain our self-identity,
our sense of who we are, as our life circumstances change,’
Dr. Cartwright wrote in ‘The Twenty-Four Hour Mind:
The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives’
(2010).” — Rosalind Cartwright, a.k.a. “Queen of Dreams”
Cartwright reportedly died on January 15.
A related Kentucky dream — “Goddess on a Mountain Top.”
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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Monday, March 1, 2021
See also an image from this journal on Monday, Feb. 22 —
Related books —
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Sunday, February 28, 2021
Related tune suggested yesterday by Peter J. Cameron —
The Beatles, “I Me Mine,” from the “Let It Be” album.
Related imagery —
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Friday, February 26, 2021
For fans of “WandaVision” —
“1978 was perhaps the seminal year in the origin of chaos magic. . . .”
— Wikipedia article on Chaos Magic
Non-Chaos Non-Magic from Halloween 1978 —
Related material —
A doctoral student of a different Peter Cameron —
( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )
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Sunday, January 31, 2021
A recent search for one Georgina Edwards, writer on Wittgenstein
and Hesse, yielded a different G.E. who is perhaps better suited to
illustrate the oeuvres of Nabokov and of Stephen King —
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzf1uXelQ0p/.
This post is in memory of a fashion designer —
— and of a Russian philologist:
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
For Holocaust Remembrance Day —
Little reportedly died at 79 on Jan. 7.
“Mr. Little submitted the manuscript for ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’
to 12 publishers. He received 12 rejections in response, before selling it for £2,500,
or about $3,400 (the equivalent of about $5,800 today). It was a meager amount,
but his genius was in the details: He sold only the rights to publish it in Britain and
the Commonwealth, and he asked for high royalties.” — Clay Risen, New York Times
Leachman reportedly died at 94 today.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : And it was you… who left my grandfather’s
book out for me to find.
Frau Blücher : Yes.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : So that I would…
Frau Blücher : Yes.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : Then you and Victor were…
Frau Blücher : YES. YES. Say it. He vas my… BOYFRIEND!
In the spirit of Kinbote…
The real Frau Blücher was of course Hannah Arendt,
whose boyfriend was Martin Heidegger.
Cf. a Log24 post of April 10, 2017 —
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Saturday, January 23, 2021
The above image was suggested by a link in a
Philadelphia Inquirer obituary from yesterday evening.
Exercise: What is controlled by the middle-finger string?
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
The title is from Nabokov.
Related: A sign or symbol known to
techies as “the hamburger.”
See also “White Palace” earlier tonight.
The above image appeared earlier in posts
now tagged “Darkinbad the Brightdayler.”
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
New Yorker video today, at 14:00-14:25 —
“What’s good about KenKen, and Sudoku, and crosswords,
all of those puzzles like that, is that they have grids to be filled in,
empty squares. I think there is something about human nature
that we want to fill up spaces. And if you’re a puzzle person,
or almost anybody, and you see an empty grid, you want to
put something in those spaces. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
that you don’t get often in life and that really feels good.”
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
“I can’t get no… satisfaction….” — The Rolling Stones
The New Yorker recently restarted the Weiner story,
which includes —
“… the fall of 2017, when he began a twenty-one-month
prison sentence for sexting with a minor.”
“You want to put something in those spaces.”
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
Yes, you do.
Weiner is now with a Brooklyn countertops company called IceStone.
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Monday, December 21, 2020
A passage quoted above —
“The crystal was a sort of magnifying glass,
vastly enlarging the things inside the block.
Strange things they were, too.”
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
The State of Square-Space Art at Wikipedia as of December 16, 2020,
after a revision by an anonymous user on that date:
See also Square Space at Squarespace.
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Saturday, December 12, 2020
“Perhaps only Shakespeare manages to create at the highest level
both images and people; and even Hamlet looks second-rate
compared with Lear .”
— Iris Murdoch, “Against Dryness,” 1961
Byline from a 2019 post — ‘GLOBE STAFF AND NEW SERVICES’ —
Above: Dr. Harrison Pope, Harvard professor of psychiatry,
demonstrates the use of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
“block design” subtest.
— From a Log24 search for “Harrison Pope.”
Related drama — Other posts tagged Plastic Elements.
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Sunday, December 6, 2020
Today’s earlier post “Binary Coordinates” discussed a Dec. 6
revision to the Wikipedia article on PG(3,2), the projective
geometry of 3 dimensions over the 2-element field GF(2).
The revision, which improved the article, was undone later today
by a clueless retired academic, one William “Bill” Cherowitzo,
a professor emeritus of mathematics at U. of Colorado at Denver.
(See his article “Adventures of a Mathematician in Wikipedia-land,”
MAA Focus , December 2014/January 2015.)
See my earlier remarks on this topic . . . specifically, on this passage —
“A 3-(16,4,1) block design has 140 blocks
of size 4 on 16 points, such that each triplet
of points is covered exactly once. Pick any
single point, take only the 35 blocks
containing that point, and delete that point.
The 35 blocks of size 3 that remain comprise
a PG(3,2) on the 15 remaining points.”
As I noted on November 17, this is bullshit. Apparently Cherowitzo
never bothered to find out that an arbitrary “3-(16,4,1) block design”
(an example of a Steiner quadruple system ) does not yield a PG(3,2).
PG(3,2) is derived from the classical 3-(16,4,1) block design formed by the affine
space of 4 dimensions over GF(2). That design has 322,560 automorphisms.
In contrast, see a 3-(16,4,1) block design that is automorphism-free.
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
Sunday, November 22, 2020
— Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell (2004).
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Monday, November 2, 2020
The new domain name q-bits.space does not refer to
the q in “quantum ,” but rather to the q that symbolizes
the order of a Galois field .
See the Wikipedia article “Finite field.”
The “space” suffix refers to a web page on geometry.
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Friday, October 30, 2020
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
Wikipedia on what has been called “the doily” —
“The smallest non-trivial generalized quadrangle
is GQ(2,2), whose representation* has been dubbed
‘the doily’ by Stan Payne in 1973.”
A later publication relates the doily to grids.
From Finite Generalized Quadrangles , by Stanley E. Payne
and J. A. Thas, December 1983, at researchgate.net, pp. 81-82—
“Then the lines … define a 3×3 grid G (i.e. a grid
consisting of 9 points and 6 lines).”
. . . .
“So we have shown that the grid G can completed [sic ]
in a unique way to a grid with 8 lines and 16 points.”
. . . .
“A 4×4 grid defines a linear subspace
of the 2−(64,4,1) design, i.e. a 4×4 grid
together with the affine lines on it is AG(2,4).”
A more graphic approach from this journal —
Click the image for further details.
* This wording implies that GQ(2,2) has a unique
visual representation. It does not. See inscape .
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Friday, October 23, 2020
“Quadrangle” is also a mathematical term.
Example: The Doily.
See also The Crosswicks Curse .
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Continues in The New York Times :
“One day — ‘I don’t know exactly why,’ he writes — he tried to
put together eight cubes so that they could stick together but
also move around, exchanging places. He made the cubes out
of wood, then drilled a hole in the corners of the cubes to link
them together. The object quickly fell apart.
Many iterations later, Rubik figured out the unique design
that allowed him to build something paradoxical:
a solid, static object that is also fluid….” — Alexandra Alter
Another such object: the eightfold cube .
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Thursday, September 10, 2020
"After years in hiding, latex fashion re-emerged in the late 1950s,
thanks to the British designer John Sutcliffe, who created the world’s
first catsuit – the prototype rubber-fetish garment. …
The 1960s British spy series The Avengers was monumental
in bringing rubberwear to the masses. The show’s feminist heroine,
Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg), was styled in a latex, Sutcliffe-
inspired catsuit. With Peel as a media archetype, latex’s second-skin
look wasn’t just sexy, it was superhuman.
Sutcliffe capitalised on the obsession with his products, and founded
AtomAge Magazine in 1972. The periodical, filled with artful and erotic
bondage imagery, gained a huge following among fetishists, and made
quite the splash on London’s progressive fashion scene. "
— By Cassidy George, bbc.com, 8th January 2020
See also an image from a Log24 post on that date a year earlier—
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
The abstract arrows below in an image from yesterday’s Design post . . .
. . . are a background feature of the Castello Sforzesco website generally,
and not specifically of Corraini’s 2016 graphic design presentation.
The arrows apparently come from repetitions of this motif —
Similar arrow motifs appear at the castle’s main page —
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
From a report of another August 14 death —
“… on Dec. 7, 1941, ‘it seemed as though everyone at Harvard
came to the Crimson building that night, and anxiously
hung over the ticker tape [i.e., teletype ] machine to watch the
little metal letters hammer out the words that told the story.'”
— Dan Huntington Fenn Jr., quoted in his Boston Globe obituary.
“Simplicity, clarity, showing the text” — The late Howell Binkley.
“To expand the words and music and dance” . . .
See Coconut Dance.
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Monday, August 17, 2020
Context —
Accompanying dialogue —
Nina Kate is, among other things, a latex designer:
Latex design suggested by a recent Jaime King meditation
on the AA phrase Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired: HALT —
“Gotta work on that acronym.” — Tony Stark —
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Heller: I'm a weapons designer. (grabs Shoveler's collar) I've got
what you need.
Shoveler: A--All right. We'll--we'll come back. We'll visit all of you
people, later. Thank you, sir.
Heller: No no no no no. I--I don't live here. I'm here for the ladies.
You know. Here, take my card.
+------------------------------------------------+
|Aromatherapy Laser Hair Removal|
| Doctor A. Heller |
| Weapons Designer |
| Innovator, Inventor |
| World Changer |
| |
| Old Funhouse |
| Heller Fairgrounds |
| Test Site Number 7 |
|Carnival Rides Chicken Rentals|
+------------------------------------------------+
My name's Heller. Say it with me.
Heller&Shoveler: Heller.
Shoveler: All right. Thank you. (he absently puts Heller's card in his
pocket)
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Facettenreiche Grundlage:
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
* For the title —
See as well some related philosophy.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Browsing related to the graphic design theory described in the previous post
yielded a four-color diamond illustrating design at Microsoft —
For some related mathematics see . . .
The Four-Color Diamond’s 2007 Source —
See also Log24 posts from August 2007 now tagged The Four-Color Ring.
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A related quotation:
“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”
— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))
See also the webpage Block Designs in Art and Mathematics
and Log24 posts tagged Plastic Elements.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020
The Polish starlet joke
Related material — Costume design for New Year’s Eve.
“Show me all the blueprints.” — attributed to Howard Hughes.
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
Or: Kipling and the Temple of Doom
See also Kipling and The Temple.
This post was suggested by a remark of Holland Cotter in The New York Times
on April 19, 2012 —
“An 18th-century Jain diagram of the cosmos turns the universe
into a kind of salvational board game. “
Hence . . .
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020
The conclusion of an obituary for a former resident of Laurel Canyon —
“He would go to all these old junk shops and buy
black-and-white photos of nobody actors,’’
Mr. Klein said. “He didn’t want stills of the stars.
He said, ‘Actors that never made it — that’s
the real Hollywood.’ ’’
— Guy Trebay in The New York Times , June 23
Related music and art — Posts tagged Hollywood Nights.
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Thursday, June 18, 2020
| Maria Shriver, a contributor for NBC’s “TODAY,” remembered her aunt as an “extraordinary woman.”
Smith “had a great career on behalf of this country as ambassador to Ireland promoting peace there and also started very special arts for people with intellectual disabilities,” Shriver said on the 3rd hour of “TODAY.”
“So I take solace in the fact that she is joining every other member of her family up in heaven. So it’s nice for her,” she added.
Smith was born on Feb. 20, 1928, in Boston, Massachusetts to Rose and Joseph Kennedy. |
Related graphic design:
Feb. 20 square and June 17 Circle.
Related entertainment: “The Foreigner” (2017 film) and . . .
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Monday, June 15, 2020
“Mr. Caplan, an essayist, professor, lecturer and consultant on design,
died on June 4 in his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
He was 95.” — Penelope Green in The New York Times today.
This journal on that date —
Related cultural icons —
” James, Alec. Alec, James.”
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Click the Springer “train of thought” advertisement below to enlarge.
A line for Stephen King:
“She gets the locomotive, I get the caboose.”
. . . . . . . 
Cover Design: Will Staehle / Unusual Co.
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