Log24

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Cube Design Software Example

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:04 pm

A first try at using websim.ai as an approach to building a model
of The Diamond Cube for use in later programs. AI in its current state
seems much more helpful in programming than in web seach.

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Diamond Theorem Unit Cube Design

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:53 am

https://websim.ai/p/74wzs2lcd6qlpe8491rz/24

Sunday, October 13, 2024

Cubehenge Review

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:15 am

YouTube: Hitler's Peer Review-- The Abstract

YouTube: Hitler's Peer Review-- Scientific American

Song lyric — "Somewhere . . ."

Real estate motto— Location, Location, Location.

Illustration— The fire leap scene from Wicker Man

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/100907-WickerManFireLeapScene.jpg

Saturday, September 21, 2024

The Squarespace Gray Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:00 am

"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

I noticed this favicon on Sept. 18 (see post) at a publisher's webpage.

It turns out that it is not specific to the publisher, but rather to sites
hosted by Squarespace.com.  For instance . . .

See also a post on Christmas Day, 2013.

Related material from the Sept. 18 post mentioned above —

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Cube Geometry

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:54 pm

From a search in this journal for Kochen

Related material — Hitchcock in this journal and Mermin Pentagrams on the Web.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:57 pm

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Raiders of the Lost Cubes

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:22 pm

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Symmetry Summary: The Cullinane Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:48 pm

At https://shc759.wordpress.com today —

https://shc759.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/
truchet-tiles-and-cullinane-cubes-the-mathematics-of-symmetry/

For a much larger view of this topic, see other posts in this journal
tagged Cullinane Cube.  For a large (16 MB) downloadable
document containing these posts, see . . .
log24.com/log24/240222-Log24-posts-tagged-Cullinane-Cube.pdf.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Truchet Tiles Meet Cullinane Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:13 am

From a post on Trevanian in December 2005 —

"And we may see
the meadow in December,
icy white and crystalline."

— Johnny Mercer,
    "Midnight Sun"

Friday, February 2, 2024

Venice Beach Barbenheimer:  Design Cube News

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:12 am

See as well Froebel in this  journal.

Friday, November 10, 2023

Cube Mine

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:44 am

In memory of a former president of Boston University
Other posts now tagged Cube Mine.

Related entertainment —

Monday, October 2, 2023

Design Cube at Replit

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:10 pm

The Replit code development environment featured
in today's previous post has hosted, for some time now,
an embodiment of the design cube  from earlier posts —

Saturday, September 16, 2023

A Cube for Casaubon

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:25 pm

The 1955 Levi-Strauss 'canonic formula' in its original context of permutation groups

Later . . .

Affine groups on small binary spaces

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Star Cube Variations

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:55 am

Saturday, November 12, 2022

Inside a White Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:09 pm

For the late Brian O'Doherty, from posts now tagged "Pless Birthday 2022" —

A Mathieu Puzzle: 24 Diamond Facets of the Eightfold Cube

This post was suggested by an obituary of O'Doherty and by
"The Life and Work of Vera Stepen Pless" in
Notices of the American Mathematical Society , December 2022.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Outside the White Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:01 pm

      

"Remember, remember the fifth of November"

  — Hugo Weaving in 2005

"If it's Tuesday . . ."

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Dice and the Eightfold Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 4:47 pm

At Hiroshima on March 9, 2018, Aitchison discussed another 
"hexagonal array" with two added points… not at the center, but
rather at the ends  of a cube's diagonal axis of symmetry.

See some related illustrations below. 

Fans of the fictional "Transfiguration College" in the play
"Heroes of the Fourth Turning" may recall that August 6,
another Hiroshima date, was the Feast of the Transfiguration.

Iain Aitchison's 'dice-labelled' cuboctahedron at Hiroshima, March 2018

The exceptional role of  0 and  in Aitchison's diagram is echoed
by the occurence of these symbols in the "knight" labeling of a 
Miracle Octad Generator octad —

Transposition of  0 and  in the knight coordinatization 
induces the symplectic polarity of PG(3,2) discussed by 
(for instance) Anne Duncan in 1968.

Friday, July 15, 2022

The Cubes  continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:36 pm

From a Toronto Star  video on the Langlands program —

From a review of the 2017 film "Justice League" —

"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."

See also the 2018 film "Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars."

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

A Data Cube for Casaubon

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:26 am

Cartoon version of George Eliot, author of Middlemarch 
and Ada Lovelace, programming pioneer —

See as well an earlier vision of a data cube for mythologies
by Claude Lévi-Strauss

The 1955 Levi-Strauss 'canonic formula' in its original context of permutation groups

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Ouellette vs. the Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:05 am

From the 2019 post Spring Loaded

British cover (2011) for 'From Eternity to Here,' by Sean Carroll

A more recent image, from Carroll's wife Jennifer Ouellette —

For a more sophisticated approach to the 4x4x4 cube,
see a page at finitegeometry.org.

Thursday, April 7, 2022

Blue Cube Group

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 10:47 am

For more advanced students . . .

.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Mathieu Cube Exercise, Continued

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:39 pm

From February 26

Click to enlarge.

One approach to the above exercise —

Click to enlarge.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Supercube Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:31 am

The new URL supercube.space forwards to http://box759.wordpress.com/.

The term supercube  is from a 1982 article by Solomon W. Golomb.

The related new URL supercube.group forwards to a page that
describes how the 2x2x2 (or eightfold, or "super") cube's natural
underlying automorphism group is Klein's simple group of order 168.

For further context, see the new URL supercube.art.

For some background, see the phrase Cube Space in this journal. 

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Pyramid vs. Cube … Continued

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:11 pm

See  Sith Pyramid  and  Jedi Cube .

Related reading . . .

Pyramid:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
2022/feb/27/vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-power

Cube:

"To enter into the world of Putin’s favorite philosophers
is to enter a world full of melodrama, mysticism and
grandiose eschatological visions."

— David Brooks in the online New York Times  on March 3, 2014

Scholium:

This  journal  on the above NY Times  date

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Beyond Rubik: The Mathieu Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:18 pm

Click to enlarge.

Monday, February 14, 2022

Sugar Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:23 pm

Click image for the source

糖果  咖啡 Candy Coffee  (Google translation)

Related cinematic image

Image-- Sugar cube in coffee, from 'Bleu'

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Mathieu Cube Labeling

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 2:08 pm

Shown below is an illustration from "The Puzzle Layout Problem" —

Exercise:  Using the above numerals 1 through 24
(with 23 as 0 and 24 as ∞) to represent the points 
, 0, 1, 2, 3 … 22  of the projective line over GF(23),
reposition the labels 1 through 24 in the above illustration
so that they appropriately* illustrate the cube-parts discussed
by Iain Aitchison in his March 2018 Hiroshima slides on 
cube-part permutations by the Mathieu group M24

A note for Northrop Frye —

Interpenetration in the eightfold cube — the three midplanes —

IMAGE- The Trinity Cube (three interpenetrating planes that split the eightfold cube into its eight subcubes)

A deeper example of interpenetration:

Aitchison has shown that the Mathieu group M24 has a natural
action on the 24 center points of the subsquares on the eightfold
cube's six faces (four such points on each of the six faces). Thus
the 759 octads of the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24) interpenetrate
on the surface of the cube.

* "Appropriately" — I.e. , so that the Aitchison cube octads correspond
exactly, via the projective-point labels, to the Curtis MOG octads.

Friday, February 4, 2022

The Guralnik Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:04 pm

New York Review of Books , Dec. 16, 2021 issue —
Lorrie Moore on the documentary series "Couples Therapy" —

"Few of the people sitting on the couch avoid the cliché of
one person (a man) playing fruitlessly with a plastic puzzle
while the other speaks tearfully and avails herself of a
Kleenex box. In season 1, there is literally a Rubik’s cube,
and no one ever solves it, an unfortunate but apt metaphor.
During one session, when the cube has been placed out of reach,
one of the husbands gets up to look for it, finding it on a shelf." 

See also . . .

"The bond with reality is cut." — Hans Freudenthal 

Monday, September 13, 2021

Cube Space Revisited

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 3:02 pm

The above Quanta  article mentions

"Maryna Viazovska’s 2016 discovery of the most efficient
ways of packing spheres in dimensions eight and 24."

From a course to be taught by Viazovska next spring:

The Lovasz reference suggests a review of my own webpage
Cube Space, 1984-2003.

See as well a review of Log24 posts on Packing.

Friday, September 3, 2021

“The Home Cube, Where the Couple Reside”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:12 pm

From the post "Games" of Jan. 31, 2021 —

“Once Knecht confessed to his teacher that he wished to
learn enough to be able to incorporate the system of the
I Ching  into the Glass Bead Game. Elder Brother laughed.
‘Go ahead and try’, he exclaimed. ‘You’ll see how it turns out.
Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world.
But I doubt the gardener would succeed in incorporating
the world in his bamboo grove’ ” (P. 139).

— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) .
Translated by Richard and Clara Winston ( London, Vintage, 2000).

Saturday, August 28, 2021

Solomon’s Super*  Cube…

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , , , — m759 @ 1:33 pm

Geometry for Jews  continues.

210828-Golomb-2x2x2-Super_Cube.jpg (500×373)

The conclusion of Solomon Golomb's
"Rubik's Cube and Quarks,"
American Scientist , May-June 1982 —

Related geometric meditation —
Archimedes at Hiroshima
in posts tagged Aitchison.

 

* As opposed to Solomon's Cube .

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Cube Plan

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:14 am

Sunday, February 21, 2021

Cube Woo

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:01 pm

"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Hassenfeld Brothers merchandising slogan

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Adoration of the Cube . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 2:53 am

Continues.

Related vocabulary —

See as well the word facet in this journal.

Analogously, one might write . . .

A Hiroshima cube  consists of 6 faces ,
each with 4 squares called facets ,
for a total of 24 facets. . . ."

(See Aitchison's Octads , a post of Feb. 19, 2020.)

Click image to enlarge.  Background: Posts tagged 'Aitchison.'"

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Gleaming the Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:30 am

From a search in this journal for “Paradise of Childhood” —

Page from 'The Paradise of Childhood,' 1906 edition

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Cubed:  Images from 2007 and 2015 —

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:43 pm

Daniel Dennett in his office

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Cube School

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:16 am

The new domain http://cube.school
points to posts tagged Cube School here.

Friday, September 18, 2020

Adoration of the Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:25 am

“WHEN I IMAGINE THE CUBE, I see a structure in motion.
I see the framework of its edges, its corners, and its flexible joints,
and the continuous transformations in front of me (before you start
to worry, I assure you that I can freeze it anytime I like). I don’t see
a static object but a system of dynamic relations. In fact, this is only
half of that system. The other half is the person who handles it.
Just like everything else in our world, a system is defined by
its place
within a network of relations—to humans, first of all.”

— Rubik, Erno.  Cubed   (p. 165). Flatiron Books. Kindle Ed., 2020.

Compare and contrast — Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Space Wars:  Sith Pyramid vs. Jedi Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:18 am

For the Sith Pyramid, see posts tagged Pyramid Game.
For the Jedi Cube, see posts tagged Enigma Cube
and cube-related remarks by Aitchison at Hiroshima.

This  post was suggested by two events of May 16, 2019 —
A weblog post by Frans Marcelis on the Miracle Octad
Generator of R. T. Curtis (illustrated with a pyramid),
and the death of I. M. Pei, architect of the Louvre pyramid.

That these events occurred on the same date is, of course,
completely coincidental.

Perhaps Dan Brown can write a tune to commemorate
the coincidence.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

The Enigma Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:03 am

Promotional material —

“Did you buckle up?” —  Harlan Kane

The publication date of The Enigma Cube  reported above was February 13, 2020.

Related material — Log24 posts around that date now tagged The Reality Bond.

Monday, April 13, 2020

Cubes and Axes

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:55 pm

See also this  journal on November 29, 2011 —The Flight from Ennui.

Related illustration from earlier in 2011 —

See also this  journal on 20 Sept. 2011 — Relativity Problem Revisited —
as well as Congregated Light.

Monday, February 24, 2020

For “Time Cube” Fans

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:53 am

See also Time Cube elsewhere in this  journal.

Sunday, December 22, 2019

M24 from the Eightfold Cube

Exercise:  Use the Guitart 7-cycles below to relate the 56 triples
in an 8-set (such as the eightfold cube) to the 56 triangles in
a well-known Klein-quartic hyperbolic-plane tiling. Then use
the correspondence of the triples with the 56 spreads of PG(3,2)
to construct M24.

Click image below to download a Guitart PowerPoint presentation.

See as well earlier posts also tagged Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Inside the Exploded Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:15 pm
 

Metaphysical conceit | literature | Britannica.com

https://www.britannica.com/art/metaphysical-conceit

The metaphysical conceit, associated with the Metaphysical poets of the 17th century, is a more intricate and intellectual device. It usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem.…

This post's title refers to a metaphysical conceit 
in the previous post, Desperately Seeking Clarity.

Related material —

The source of the above mystical octahedron —

'Becoming Whole,' by Leslie Stein

      See also Jung's Imago Dei  in this journal.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Group Actions on the 4x4x4 Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:23 am

For affine  group actions, see Ex Fano Appollinis  (June 24)
and Solomon's Cube.

For one approach to Mathieu  group actions on a 24-cube subset
of the 4x4x4 cube, see . . .

For a different sort of Mathieu cube, see Aitchison.

Friday, June 21, 2019

Cube Tales for Solstice Day

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:45 pm

See also "Six-Set" in this journal
and "Cube Geometry Continues."

 
 

Cubehenge

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:15 am

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Time Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:02 am

The opening lines of Eliot's Four Quartets

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

Perhaps.

Those who prefer geometry to rhetoric may also prefer
to Eliot's lines the immortal opening of the Transformers  saga —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

One version of the Cube —

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Cube Geometry Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:30 pm

An illustration from the April 20, 2016, post

Symmetric Generation of a Simple Group

IMAGE- Bester,'The Stars My Destination' (with cover slightly changed)


"The geometry of unit cubes is a meeting point
 of several different subjects in mathematics."
 — Chuanming ZongBulletin of the American
Mathematical Society 
, January 2005

Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24

Inside the White Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:01 am

(Continued)

Monday, May 13, 2019

Star Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

Saturday, May 4, 2019

Inside the White Cube

Structure of the eightfold cube

See also Espacement  and The Thing and I.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

The Eightfold Cube and PSL(2,7)

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:45 pm

For PSL(2,7), this is ((49-1)(49-7))/((7-1)(2))=168.

The group GL(3,2), also of order 168, acts naturally
on the set of seven cube-slicings below —

Another way to picture the seven natural slicings —

Application of the above images to picturing the
isomorphism of PSL(2,7) with GL(3,2) —

Why PSL(2,7) is isomorphic to GL(3.2)

For a more detailed proof, see . . .

Thursday, December 6, 2018

The Mathieu Cube of Iain Aitchison

This journal ten years ago today —

Surprise Package

Santa and a cube
From a talk by a Melbourne mathematician on March 9, 2018 —

The Mathieu group cube of Iain Aitchison (2018, Hiroshima)

The source — Talk II below —

Search Results

pdf of talk I  (March 8, 2018)

www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/branched/…/Aitchison-Hiroshima-2018-Talk1-2.pdf

Iain Aitchison. Hiroshima  University March 2018 … Immediate: Talk given last year at Hiroshima  (originally Caltech 2010).

pdf of talk II  (March 9, 2018)  (with model for M24)

www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/branched/files/…/Aitchison-Hiroshima-2-2018.pdf

Iain Aitchison. Hiroshima  University March 2018. (IRA: Hiroshima  03-2018). Highly symmetric objects II.

Abstract

www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/branched/files/2018/abstract/Aitchison.txt

Iain AITCHISON  Title: Construction of highly symmetric Riemann surfaces , related manifolds, and some exceptional objects, I, II Abstract: Since antiquity, some …

Related material — 

The 56 triangles of  the eightfold cube . . .

The Eightfold Cube: The Beauty of Klein's Simple Group

   Image from Christmas Day 2005.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

The White Cube

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:57 am

Clicking on Zong in the above post leads to a 2005 article
in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society .

See also the eightfold  cube and interality .

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Iconology of the Eightfold Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:13 am

Found today in an Internet image search, from the website of
an anonymous amateur mathematics enthusiast

Forming Gray codes in the eightfold cube with the eight
I Ching  trigrams (bagua ) —

Forming Gray codes in the eightfold cube with the eight I Ching trigrams (bagua)

This  journal on Nov. 7, 2016

A different sort of cube, from the makers of the recent
Netflix miniseries "Maniac" —

See also Rubik in this  journal.

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Cube Meditation

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:12 pm

See also "Eternal Recreation" (Christmas Eve, 2012).

Monday, July 23, 2018

Eightfold Cube for Furey*

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:31 pm

Click to enlarge:

Above are the 7 frames of an animated gif from a Wikipedia article.

* For the Furey of the title, see a July 20 Quanta Magazine  piece

See also the eightfold cube in this  journal.

"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

Friday, June 29, 2018

Triangles in the Eightfold Cube

From a post of July 25, 2008, “56 Triangles,” on the Klein quartic
and the eightfold cube

Baez’s discussion says that the Klein quartic’s 56 triangles
can be partitioned into 7 eight-triangle Egan ‘cubes’ that
correspond to the 7 points of the Fano plane in such a way
that automorphisms of the Klein quartic correspond to
automorphisms of the Fano plane. Show that the
56 triangles within the eightfold cube can also be partitioned
into 7 eight-triangle sets that correspond to the 7 points of the
Fano plane in such a way that (affine) transformations of the
eightfold cube induce (projective) automorphisms of the Fano plane.”

Related material from 1975 —

More recently

Monday, April 2, 2018

Three Mother Cubes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:44 pm

From a Toronto Star video pictured here on April 1 three years ago:

The three connected cubes are labeled "Harmonic Analysis," 'Number Theory,"
and "Geometry."

Related cultural commentary from a review of the recent film "Justice League" —

"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."

The nineteenth-century German mathematician Felix Christian Klein
as Steppenwolf —

Volume I of a treatise by Klein is subtitled
"Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis." This covers
two of the above three Toronto Star cubes.

Klein's Volume II is subtitled "Geometry."

An excerpt from that volume —

Further cultural commentary:  "Glitch" in this journal.

Sunday, April 1, 2018

The Truth Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:16 pm

Or:  Hector and the Horse

"How many roads . . . . ?" — Bob Dylan

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Cube Theory

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

For Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan —

See also a Log24 post from the above Cube Theory date —
April 12, 2016 — Lyrics for a Cartoon Graveyard — as well as . . .

'Loop De Loop,' Johnny Thunder, Diamond Records, 1962

Thursday, March 22, 2018

The Diamond Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:32 am

The Java applets at the webpage "Diamonds and Whirls"
that illustrate Cullinane cubes may be difficult to display.

Here instead is an animated GIF that shows the basic unit
for the "design cube" pages at finitegeometry.org.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

“Before Time Began, There Was the Cube”

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:00 am

See Eightfold Froebel.

The Paradise of Childhood'-- Froebel's Third Gift

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Cube Space Continued

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:44 am

James Propp in the current Math Horizons  on the eightfold cube

James Propp on the eightfold cube

For another puerile approach to the eightfold cube,
see Cube Space, 1984-2003 (Oct. 24, 2008).

Thursday, August 17, 2017

For Time Cube Fans

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 3:45 pm

Operation Blockhead continues

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110922-TriquetrumCube.jpg

See also Weyl + Palermo in this journal.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Cube Quaternions

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:36 am

See posts now tagged with the above title.

IMAGE- Quaternion group acting on an eightfold cube

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:01 pm

See 4x4x4 in this journal.  See also

 

Sunday, June 4, 2017

In Memory of the Time Cube Page*

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:00 pm

From this journal on August 18, 2015, "A Wrinkle in Terms" —

For two misuses by John Baez of the phrase “permutation group”
at the n-Category Café, see “A Wrinkle in the Mathematical Universe
and “Re: A Wrinkle…” —

“There is  such a thing as a permutation group.”
— Adapted from A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L’Engle

* See RIP, Time Cube at gizmodo.com (September 1, 2015).

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

White Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:21 pm

Inside the White Cube” —

“We have now reached
a point where we see
not the art but the space first….
An image comes to mind
of a white, ideal space
that, more than any single picture,
may be the archetypal image
of 20th-century art.”

http://www.log24.com/log/pix09/090205-cube2x2x2.gif

“Space: what you
damn well have to see.”

— James Joyce, Ulysses  

Thursday, January 19, 2017

A Time Cube for Silvia

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:13 am

The Silvia of the title is from the previous post.

For the Time Cube, see …

Friday, January 6, 2017

Eightfold Cube at Cornell

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:35 pm

The assignments page for a graduate algebra course at Cornell
last fall had a link to the eightfold cube:

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Cuber

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Nobel Flashback:

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Nobel Note

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 7:59 PM 

"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)

From a post of Jan. 11, 2012 —

Tension in the Common Room

IMAGE- 'Launched from Cuber' scene in 'X-Men: First Class'

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The Eightfold Cube in Oslo

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:04 pm

A KUNSTforum.as article online today (translation by Google) —

The eightfold cube at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo

Update of Sept. 7, 2016: The corrections have been made,
except for the misspelling "Cullinan," which was caused by 
Google translation, not by KUNSTforum.

Monday, August 1, 2016

Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:28 pm

From this journal —

See (for instance) Sacred Order, July 18, 2006 —

The finite Galois affine space with 64 points

From a novel published July 26, 2016, and reviewed
in yesterday's (print) New York Times Book Review —

The doors open slowly. I step into a hangar. From the rafters high above, lights blaze down, illuminating a twelve-foot cube the color of gunmetal. My pulse rate kicks up. I can’t believe what I’m looking at. Leighton must sense my awe, because he says, “Beautiful, isn’t it?” It is exquisitely beautiful. At first, I think the hum inside the hangar is coming from the lights, but it can’t be. It’s so deep I can feel it at the base of my spine, like the ultralow-frequency vibration of a massive engine. I drift toward the box, mesmerized.

— Crouch, Blake. Dark Matter: A Novel
(Kindle Locations 2004-2010).
Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition. 

See also Log24 on the publication date of Dark Matter .

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Prima Materia as Cubes

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:04 am

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

“Puzzle Cube of a Novel”

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:00 am

"To know the mind of the creator"

Or that of Orson Welles

Related material — Cube Coloring.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Cube for Berlin

Foreword by Sir Michael Atiyah —

"Poincaré said that science is no more a collection of facts
than a house is a collection of bricks. The facts have to be
ordered or structured, they have to fit a theory, a construct
(often mathematical) in the human mind. . . . 

 Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to
explain how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty.

In attempting to bridge this divide I have always found that
architecture is the best of the arts to compare with mathematics.
The analogy between the two subjects is not hard to describe
and enables abstract ideas to be exemplified by bricks and mortar,
in the spirit of the Poincaré quotation I used earlier."

— Sir Michael Atiyah, "The Art of Mathematics"
in the AMS Notices , January 2010

Judy Bass, Los Angeles Times , March 12, 1989 —

"Like Rubik's Cube, The Eight  demands to be pondered."

As does a figure from 1984, Cullinane's Cube —

The Eightfold Cube

For natural group actions on the Cullinane cube,
see "The Eightfold Cube" and
"A Simple Reflection Group of Order 168."

See also the recent post Cube Bricks 1984

An Approach to Symmetric Generation of the Simple Group of Order 168

Related remark from the literature —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110918-Felsner.jpg

Note that only the static structure is described by Felsner, not the
168 group actions discussed by Cullinane. For remarks on such
group actions in the literature, see "Cube Space, 1984-2003."

(From Anatomy of a Cube, Sept. 18, 2011.)

Thursday, March 17, 2016

On the Eightfold Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

The following page quotes "Raiders of the Lost Crucible,"
a Log24 post from Halloween 2015.

Discussion of Cullinane's eightfold cube as exhibited by Josefine Lyche at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo

From KUNSTforum.as, a Norwegian art quarterly, issue no. 1 of 2016.

Related posts — See Lyche Eightfold.

Friday, March 4, 2016

Cube Bricks 1984

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:06 pm

An Approach to Symmetric Generation of the Simple Group of Order 168

Related aesthetics —

"Poincaré said that science is no more a collection of facts
than a house is a collection of bricks. The facts have to be
ordered or structured, they have to fit a theory, a construct
(often mathematical) in the human mind. . . . 

Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to
explain how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty.

In attempting to bridge this divide I have always found that
architecture is the best of the arts to compare with mathematics.
The analogy between the two subjects is not hard to describe
and enables abstract ideas to be exemplified by bricks and mortar,
in the spirit of the Poincaré quotation I used earlier."

— Sir Michael Atiyah, "The Art of Mathematics"
     in the AMS Notices , January 2010

Sunday, November 15, 2015

The Diamond and the Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 8:00 pm

Anyone who clicked on the Dirac search at the end of
the previous post, "Dirac's Diamond," may wonder why the
"Solomon's Cube" post of 11 AM Sunday, March 1, 2009,
appeared in the Dirac search results, since there is no
apparent mention of Dirac in that Sunday post.

Use the source

<!– See also "a linear transformation of V6… which preserves
the Klein quadric; in this way we arrive at the isomorphism of
Sym(8) withthe full orthogonal group O+(6; 2)." in "The
Classification of Flats in PG(9,2) which are External to the
Grassmannian G1,4,2 Authors: Shaw, Ron;
&#160;Maks, Johannes;&#160;Gordon, Neil; Source: Designs,
Codes and Cryptography, Volume 34, Numbers 2-3, February
2005 , pp. 203-227; Publisher: Springer.&#160; For more details,
see "Finite Geometry, Dirac Groups and the Table of Real
Clifford Algebras," by R. Shaw (U. of Hull), pp. 59-99 in
Clifford Algebras and Spinor Structures, by By Albert
Crumeyrolle, Rafa&#322; Ab&#322;amowicz, Pertti Lounesto,
published by Springer, 1995. –>

Friday, October 9, 2015

Eightfold Cube in Oslo

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:00 pm

An eightfold cube appears in this detail 
of a photo by Josefine Lyche of her
installation "4D Ambassador" at the 
Norwegian Sculpture Biennial 2015

Sculpture by Josefine Lyche of Cullinane's eightfold cube at Vigeland Museum in Oslo

(Detail from private Instagram photo.)

Catalog description of installation —

Google Translate version —

In a small bedroom to Foredragssalen populate
Josefine Lyche exhibition with a group sculptures
that are part of the work group 4D Ambassador
(2014-2015). Together they form an installation
where she uses light to amplify the feeling of
stepping into a new dimension, for which the title
suggests, this "ambassadors" for a dimension we
normally do not have access to. "Ambassadors"
physical forms presents nonphysical phenomena.
Lyches works have in recent years been placed
in something one might call an "esoteric direction"
in contemporary art, and defines itself this
sculpture group humorous as "glam-minimalist."
She has in many of his works returned to basic
geometric shapes, with hints to the occult,
"new space-age", mathematics and where
everything in between.

See also Lyche + "4D Ambassador" in this journal and
her website page with a 2012 version of that title.

Cube Design

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

For Aaron Sorkin and Walter Isaacson

Related material — 
Bauhaus CubeDesign Cube, and
Nabokov's Transparent Things .

Monday, September 28, 2015

Hypercube Structure

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:01 am

Click to enlarge:

Two views of tesseracts as 4D vector spaces over GF(2)

For the hypercube as a vector space over the two-element field GF(2),
see a search in this journal for Hypercube + Vector + Space .

For connections with the related symplectic geometry, see Symplectic
in this journal and Notes on Groups and Geometry, 1978-1986.

For the above 1976 hypercube (or tesseract ), see "Diamond Theory,"
by Steven H. Cullinane, Computer Graphics and Art , Vol. 2, No. 1,
Feb. 1977, pp. 5-7.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Design Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:24 pm

Broken Symmetries  in  Diamond Space —

Monday, July 13, 2015

The Omega Cube

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Why "Omega?"

Omega is a Greek letter, Ω , used in
mathematics to denote 
a set on which
a group acts. 

Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Möbius Hypercube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:31 am

The incidences of points and planes in the
Möbius 8 configuration (8 points and 8 planes,
with 4 points on each plane and 4 planes on each point),
were described by Coxeter in a 1950 paper.* 
A table from Monday's post summarizes Coxeter's
remarks, which described the incidences in
spatial terms, with the points and planes as the vertices
and face-planes of two mutually inscribed tetrahedra —

Monday's post, "Gallucci's Möbius Configuration,"
may not be completely intelligible unless one notices
that Coxeter has drawn some of the intersections in his 
Fig. 24, a schematic representation of the point-plane
incidences, as dotless, and some as hollow dots.  The figure,
"Gallucci's version of Möbius's 84," is shown below.
The hollow dots, representing the 8 points  (as opposed
to the 8 planes ) of the configuration, are highlighted in blue.

Here a plane  (represented by a dotless intersection) contains
the four points  that are represented in the square array as lying
in the same row or same column as the plane. 

The above Möbius incidences appear also much earlier in
Coxeter's paper, in figures 6 and 5, where they are shown
as describing the structure of a hypercube. 

In figures 6 and 5, the dotless intersections representing
planes have been replaced by solid dots. The hollow dots
have again been highlighted in blue.

Figures 6 and 5 demonstrate the fact that adjacency in the set of
16 vertices of a hypercube is isomorphic to adjacency in the set
of 16 subsquares of a square 4×4 array, provided that opposite
sides of the array are identified, as in Fig. 6. The digits in 
Coxeter's labels above may be viewed as naming the positions 
of the 1's in (0,1) vectors (x4, x3, x2, x1) over the two-element
Galois field.  In that context, the 4×4 array may be called, instead
of a Möbius hypercube , a Galois tesseract .

*  "Self-Dual Configurations and Regular Graphs," 
    Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society,
    Vol. 56 (1950), pp. 413-455

The subscripts' usual 1-2-3-4 order is reversed as a reminder
    that such a vector may be viewed as labeling a binary number 
    from 0  through 15, or alternately as labeling a polynomial in
    the 16-element Galois field GF(24).  See the Log24 post
     Vector Addition in a Finite Field (Jan. 5, 2013).

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Cube of Ultron

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The Blacklist “Pilot” Review

"There is an element of camp to this series though. Spader is
quite gleefully channeling Anthony Hopkins, complete with being
a well educated, elegant man locked away in a super-cell.
Speaking of that super-cell, it’s kind of ridiculous. They’ve got him
locked up in an abandoned post office warehouse on a little
platform with a chair inside  a giant metal cube that looks like
it could have been built by Tony Stark. And as Liz approaches
to talk to him, the entire front of the cube  opens and the whole
thing slides back to leave just the platform and chair. Really? 
FUCKING REALLY ? "

Kate Reilly at Geekenstein.com (Sept. 27, 2013)

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Launched from Cuber

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:55 pm

Continued from Nobel Note (Jan. 29, 2014).

IMAGE- 'Launched from Cuber' scene in 'X-Men: First Class'

From Tradition in Action , "The Missal Crisis of '62,"
remarks on the revision of the Catholic missal in that year—

"Neither can the claim that none of these changes
is heretical in content be used as an argument
in favor of its use, for neither is the employment of
hula girls, fireworks, and mariachis strictly speaking
heretical in itself, but they belong to that class of novel
and profane things that do not belong in the Mass."

— Fr. Patrick Perez, posted Sept. 11, 2007 

See also this  journal on November 22, 2014

Say Bingo to my little friend

    … and on Bruce Springsteen's birthday this year —

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Matrix

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 11:00 AM 

From AP’s Today in History:

Happy birthday.

“It all adds up.” — Saul Bellow

The Matrix:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, May 19, 2014

Cube Space

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:00 pm

A sequel to this afternoon's Rubik Quote:

"The Cube was born in 1974 as a teaching tool
to help me and my students better understand
space and 3D. The Cube challenged us to find
order in chaos."

— Professor Ernő Rubik at Chrome Cube Lab

IMAGE- Weyl on symmetry

(Click image below to enlarge.)

Un-Rubik Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 10:48 am

IMAGE- Britannica 11th edition on the symmetry axes and planes of the cube

See also Cube Symmetry Planes  in this journal.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Rotatable Hypercube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:00 am

The archived Java rotatable hypercube of
Harry J. Smith is no longer working.
For an excellent JavaScript  replacement,
see Pete Michaud's
http://petemichaud.github.io/4dhypercube/.

This JavaScript  version can easily be saved.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Rubric’s Cuber

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:45 am

From Night of Lunacy (Sunday, May 5, 2013):

Related posts:  Rubric,  Cuber, and Pound Sign.

Click image for some background.
See also Story Theory and Princeton Apocalypse.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Cube Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:24 pm

For the late Cardinal Glemp of Poland,
who died yesterday, some links:

Friday, December 28, 2012

Cube Koan

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 4:56 am
 

From Don DeLillo's novel Point Omega —

I knew what he was, or what he was supposed to be, a defense intellectual, without the usual credentials, and when I used the term it made him tense his jaw with a proud longing for the early weeks and months, before he began to understand that he was occupying an empty seat. "There were times when no map existed to match the reality we were trying to create."

"What reality?"

"This is something we do with every eyeblink. Human perception is a saga of created reality. But we were devising entities beyond the agreed-upon limits of recognition or interpretation. Lying is necessary. The state has to lie. There is no lie in war or in preparation for war that can't be defended. We went beyond this. We tried to create new realities overnight, careful sets of words that resemble advertising slogans in memorability and repeatability. These were words that would yield pictures eventually and then become three-dimensional. The reality stands, it walks, it squats. Except when it doesn't."

He didn't smoke but his voice had a sandlike texture, maybe just raspy with age, sometimes slipping inward, becoming nearly inaudible. We sat for some time. He was slouched in the middle of the sofa, looking off toward some point in a high corner of the room. He had scotch and water in a coffee mug secured to his midsection. Finally he said, "Haiku."

I nodded thoughtfully, idiotically, a slow series of gestures meant to indicate that I understood completely.

"Haiku means nothing beyond what it is. A pond in summer, a leaf in the wind. It's human consciousness located in nature. It's the answer to everything in a set number of lines, a prescribed syllable count. I wanted a haiku war," he said. "I wanted a war in three lines. This was not a matter of force levels or logistics. What I wanted was a set of ideas linked to transient things. This is the soul of haiku. Bare everything to plain sight. See what's there. Things in war are transient. See what's there and then be prepared to watch it disappear."

What's there—

This view of a die's faces 3, 6, and 5, in counter-
clockwise order (see previous post) suggests a way
of labeling the eight corners  of a die (or cube):

123, 135, 142, 154, 246, 263, 365, 456.

Here opposite faces of the die sum to 7, and the
three faces meeting at each corner are listed
in counter-clockwise order. (This corresponds
to a labeling of one of MacMahon's* 30 colored cubes.)
A similar vertex-labeling may be used in describing 
the automorphisms of the order-8 quaternion group.

For a more literary approach to quaternions, see
Pynchon's novel Against the Day .

* From Peter J. Cameron's weblog:

  "The big name associated with this is Major MacMahon,
   an associate of Hardy, Littlewood and Ramanujan,
   of whom Robert Kanigel said,

His expertise lay in combinatorics, a sort of
glorified dice-throwing, and in it he had made
contributions original enough to be named
a Fellow of the Royal Society.

   Glorified dice-throwing, indeed…"

Monday, November 5, 2012

Design Cubes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:48 pm

Continued from April 2, 2012.

Some predecessors of the Cullinane design cubes of 1984
that lack the Cullinane cubes' symmetry properties

Kohs cubes (see 1920 article)
Wechsler cubes (see Wechsler in this journal), and
Horowitz  cubes (see links below).

Horowitz Design Cubes Package

Horowitz Design Cubes (1971)

1973 Horowitz Design Cubes Patent

Horowitz Biography

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Cube Review

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 pm

Last Wednesday's 11 PM post mentioned the
adjacency-isomorphism relating the 4-dimensional 
hypercube over the 2-element Galois field GF(2) to
the 4×4 array made up of 16 square cells, with
opposite edges of the 4×4 array identified.

A web page illustrates this property with diagrams that
enjoy the Karnaugh property— adjacent vertices, or cells,
differ in exactly one coordinate. A brief paper by two German
authors relates the Karnaugh property to the construction
of a magic square like that of Dürer (see last Wednesday).

In a similar way (search the Web for Karnaugh + cube ),
vertex adjacency in the 6-dimensional hypercube over GF(2) 
is isomorphic to cell adjacency in the 4x4x4 cube, with
opposite faces of the 4x4x4 cube identified.

The above cube may be used to illustrate some properties
of the 64-point Galois 6-space that are more advanced
than those studied by enthusiasts of "magic" squares
and cubes.

See

Those who prefer narrative to mathematics may
consult posts in this journal containing the word "Cuber."

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Kummer and the Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:11 pm

Denote the d-dimensional hypercube by  γd .

"… after coloring the sixty-four vertices of  γ6
alternately red and blue, we can say that
the sixteen pairs of opposite red vertices represent
the sixteen nodes of Kummer's surface, while
the sixteen pairs of opposite blue vertices
represent the sixteen tropes."

— From "Kummer's 16," section 12 of Coxeter's 1950
    "Self-dual Configurations and Regular Graphs"

Just as the 4×4 square represents the 4-dimensional
hypercube  γ4  over the two-element Galois field GF(2),
so the 4x4x4 cube represents the 6-dimensional
hypercube  γ6  over GF(2).

For religious interpretations, see
Nanavira Thera (Indian) and
I Ching  geometry (Chinese).

See also two professors in The New York Times
discussing images of the sacred in an op-ed piece
dated Sept. 26 (Yom Kippur).

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Cube Partitions

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 7:59 am

The second Logos  figure in the previous post
summarized affine group actions on partitions
that generate a group of about 1.3 trillion
permutations of a 4x4x4 cube (shown below)—

IMAGE by Cullinane- 'Solomon's Cube' with 64 identical, but variously oriented, subcubes, and six partitions of these 64 subcubes

Click for further details.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Cuber

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:00 am

(Continued)

For Pete Rustan, space recon expert, who died on June 28—

(Click to enlarge.)

See also Galois vs. Rubik and Group Theory Template.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Cube to Tesseract

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:30 am

Yesterday's post Child's Play displayed a cube formed
by a Hasse diagram of the 8 subsets of a 3-set.*

This suggests a review of a post from last January

IMAGE- Tesseract (i.e., hypercube) formed by a Hasse diagram of the 16 subsets of a 4-element set

* See a comment on yesterday's post relating it to earlier,
  very similar, remarks by Margaret Masterman.
  I was unaware yesterday that those remarks exist. 

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Harriot’s Cubes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:28 pm

See also Finite Geometry and Physical Space.

Related material from MacTutor

Harriot and binary numbers

The paper by J. W. Shirley, Binary numeration before Leibniz, Amer. J. Physics 19 (8) (1951), 452-454, contains an interesting look at some mathematics which appears in the hand written papers of Thomas Harriot [1560-1621]. Using the photographs of the two original Harriot manuscript pages reproduced in Shirley’s paper, we explain how Harriot was doing arithmetic with binary numbers.

Leibniz [1646-1716] is credited with the invention [1679-1703] of binary arithmetic, that is arithmetic using base 2. Laplace wrote:-

Leibniz saw in his binary arithmetic the image of Creation. … He imagined the Unity represented God, and Zero the void; that the Supreme Being drew all beings from the void, just as unity and zero express all numbers in his system of numeration. This conception was so pleasing to Leibniz that he communicated it to the Jesuit, Grimaldi, president of the Chinese tribunal for mathematics, in the hope that this emblem of creation would convert the Emperor of China, who was very fond of the sciences …

However, Leibniz was certainly not the first person to think of doing arithmetic using numbers to base 2. Many years earlier Harriot had experimented with the idea of different number bases….

For a discussion of Harriot on the discrete-vs.-continuous question,
see Katherine Neal, From Discrete to Continuous: The Broadening
of Number Concepts in Early Modern England  (Springer, 2002),
pages 69-71.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Eightfold Cube Revisited

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

A search today (Élie Cartan's birthday) for material related to triality*

Dynkin diagram D4 for triality

yielded references to something that has been called a Bhargava cube .

Two pages from a 2006 paper by Bhargava—

Bhargava's reference [4] above for "the story of the cube" is to…

Higher Composition Laws I:
A New View on Gauss Composition,
and Quadratic Generalizations

Manjul Bhargava

The Annals of Mathematics
Second Series, Vol. 159, No. 1 (Jan., 2004), pp. 217-250
Published by: Annals of Mathematics
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3597249

A brief account in the context of embedding problems (click to enlarge)—

For more ways of slicing a cube,
see The Eightfold Cube —

* Note (1) some remarks by Tony Smith
   related to the above Dynkin diagram
   and (2) another colorful variation on the diagram.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Cuber (continued)

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:23 pm

Click images for further details.

See also Crimson TideRubik, and Cuber.

For another monochromatic enigma without
guaranteed equality of results, see
Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Cuber

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:15 pm

(Continued from January 11, 2012)

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Cuber

"Examples galore of this feeling must have arisen in the minds of the people who extended the Magic Cube concept to other polyhedra, other dimensions, other ways of slicing.  And once you have made or acquired a new 'cube'… you will want to know how to export a known algorithm , broken up into its fundamental operators , from a familiar cube.  What is the essence of each operator?  One senses a deep invariant lying somehow 'down underneath' it all, something that one can’t quite verbalize but that one recognizes so clearly and unmistakably in each new example, even though that example might violate some feature one had thought necessary up to that very moment.  In fact, sometimes that violation is what makes you sure you’re seeing the same thing , because it reveals slippabilities you hadn’t sensed up till that time….

… example: There is clearly only one sensible 4 × 4 × 4 Magic Cube.  It is the  answer; it simply has the right spirit ."

— Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1985, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern  (Kindle edition, locations 11557-11572)

See also Many Dimensions in this journal and Solomon's Cube.

Friday, December 30, 2011

Quaternions on a Cube

The following picture provides a new visual approach to
the order-8 quaternion  group's automorphisms.

IMAGE- Quaternion group acting on an eightfold cube

Click the above image for some context.

Here the cube is called "eightfold" because the eight vertices,
like the eight subcubes of a 2×2×2 cube,* are thought of as
independently movable. See The Eightfold Cube.

See also…

Related material: Robin Chapman and Karen E. Smith
on the quaternion group's automorphisms.

* See Margaret Wertheim's Christmas Eve remarks on mathematics
and the following eightfold cube from an institute she co-founded—

Froebel's third gift, the eightfold cube
© 2005 The Institute for Figuring

Photo by Norman Brosterman
fom the Inventing Kindergarten
exhibit at The Institute for Figuring
(co-founded by Margaret Wertheim)

Friday, November 18, 2011

Hypercube Rotations

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The hypercube has 192 rotational symmetries.
Its full symmetry group, including reflections,
is of order 384.

See (for instance) Coxeter

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111118-Coxeter415.jpg

Related material—

The rotational symmetry groups of the Platonic solids
(from April 25, 2011)—

Platonic solids' symmetry groups

— and the figure in yesterday evening's post on the hypercube

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/11117-HypercubeFromMIQELdotcom.gif

(Animation source: MIQEL.com)

Clearly hypercube rotations of this sort carry any
of the eight 3D subcubes to the central subcube
of a central projection of the hypercube—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111118-CentralProjection.gif

The 24 rotational symmeties of that subcube induce
24 rigid rotations of the entire hypercube. Hence,
as in the logic of the Platonic symmetry groups
illustrated above, the hypercube has 8 × 24 = 192
rotational symmetries.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Anatomy of a Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

R.D. Carmichael's seminal 1931 paper on tactical configurations suggests
a search for later material relating such configurations to block designs.
Such a search yields the following

"… it seems that the relationship between
BIB [balanced incomplete block ] designs
and tactical configurations, and in particular,
the Steiner system, has been overlooked."
— D. A. Sprott, U. of Toronto, 1955

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110918-SprottAndCube.jpg

The figure by Cullinane included above shows a way to visualize Sprott's remarks.

For the group actions described by Cullinane, see "The Eightfold Cube" and
"A Simple Reflection Group of Order 168."

Update of 7:42 PM Sept. 18, 2011—

From a Summer 2011 course on discrete structures at a Berlin website—

A different illustration of the eightfold cube as the Steiner system S(3, 4, 8)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110918-Felsner.jpg

Note that only the static structure is described by Felsner, not the
168 group actions discussed (as above) by Cullinane. For remarks on
such group actions in the literature, see "Cube Space, 1984-2003."

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Cosmic Cube*

IMAGE- Anthony Hopkins exorcises a Rubik cube

Prequel (Click to enlarge)

IMAGE- Galois vs. Rubik: Posters for Abel Prize, Oslo, 2008

Background —

IMAGE- 'Group Theory' Wikipedia article with Rubik's cube as main illustration and argument by a cuber for the image's use

See also Rubik in this journal.

* For the title, see Groups Acting.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Gleaming the Cube (continued)

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The New York Times  has a skateboarder obit with a URL date of July 9.

Here is an earlier version from the LA Times

July 4, 2011

By Keith Thursby, Los Angeles Times

Chris Cahill, one of the original Dogtown Z-Boys
who brought seismic changes to skateboarding
with their style and attitude, has died. He was 54.

Cahill was found June 24 at his Los Angeles home,
said Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County
coroner's office. A cause of death has not been
determined and tests are ongoing, Dietz said.

More…

Related material from Midsummer Day, June 24, the day Cahill was found dead—

The Gleaming and The Cube.

    An illustration from the latter—

IMAGE- 'The Stars My Destination' (with cover slightly changed)

    The above was adapted from a 1996 cover

IMAGE- PyrE on the 1996 Vintage Books cover of 'The Stars My Destination'

 Vintage Books, July 1996. Cover: Evan Gaffney.

For the significance of the flames,
see PyrE in the book. For the significance
of the cube in the altered cover, see
The 2×2×2 Cube and The Diamond Archetype.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Galois Cube Revisited

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110427-Cube27.jpg
   The 3×3×3 Galois Cube

    See Unity and Multiplicity.

   This cube, unlike Rubik's, is a
    purely mathematical structure.

    Its properties may be compared
    with those of the order-2  Galois
    cube (of eight subcubes, or
    elements ) and the order-4  Galois
    cube (of 64 elements). The
    order-3  cube (of 27 elements)
    lacks, because it is based on
    an odd  prime, the remarkable
    symmetry properties of its smaller
    and larger cube neighbors.

Friday, June 24, 2011

The Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

IMAGE- 'The Stars My Destination' (with cover slightly changed)

Click the above image for some background.

Related material:
Skateboard legend Andy Kessler,
this morning's The Gleaming,
and But Sometimes I Hit London.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Prime Cubes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:09 am

The title refers not to numbers  of the form p 3, p  prime, but to geometric  cubes with p 3 subcubes.

Such cubes are natural models for the finite vector spaces acted upon by general linear groups viewed as permutation  groups of degree  (not order ) p 3.

IMAGE- From preface to Larry C. Grove, 'Classical Groups and Geometric Algebra

For the case p =2, see The Eightfold Cube.

For the case p =3, see the "External links" section of the Nov. 30, 2009, version of Wikipedia article "General Linear Group." (That is the version just prior to the Dec. 14, 2009, revision by anonymous user "Greenfernglade.")

For symmetries of group actions for larger primes, see the related 1985 remark* on two -dimensional linear groups—

"Actions of GL(2,p )  on a p ×p  coordinate-array
have the same sorts of symmetries,
where p  is any odd prime."

* Group Actions, 1984-2009

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Romancing the Cube

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 am

It was a dark and stormy night…

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110420-DarkAndStormy-Logicomix.jpg

— Page 180, Logicomix

“… the class of reflections is larger in some sense over an arbitrary field than over a characteristic zero field.”

– Julia Hartmann and Anne V. Shepler, “Jacobians of Reflection Groups

For some context, see the small cube in “A Simple Reflection Group of Order 168.”

See also the larger cube in “Many Dimensions” + Whitehead in this journal (scroll down to get past the current post).

That search refers to a work by Whitehead published in 1906, the year at the top of the Logicomix  page above—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110420-Whitehead1906Axioms.jpg

A related remark on axiomatics that has metaphysical overtones suitable for a dark and stormy night

“An adequate understanding of mathematical identity requires a missing theory that will account for the relationships between formal systems that describe the same items. At present, such relationships can at best be heuristically described in terms that invoke some notion of an ‘intelligent user standing outside the system.'”

— Gian-Carlo Rota, “Syntax, Semantics, and…” in Indiscrete Thoughts . See also the original 1988 article.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Cube Spaces

Cubic models of finite geometries
display an interplay between
Euclidean and Galois geometry.

 

Example 1— The 2×2×2 Cube—

also known as the eightfold  cube

2x2x2 cube

Group actions on the eightfold cube, 1984—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100621-diandwh-detail.GIF

Version by Laszlo Lovasz et al., 2003—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100621-LovaszCubeSpace.gif

Lovasz et al. go on to describe the same group actions
as in the 1984 note, without attribution.

Example 2— The 3×3×3 Cube

A note from 1985 describing group actions on a 3×3 plane array—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100621-VisualizingDetail.gif

Undated software by Ed Pegg Jr. displays
group actions on a 3×3×3 cube that extend the
3×3 group actions from 1985 described above—

Ed Pegg Jr.'s program at Wolfram demonstrating concepts of a 1985 note by Cullinane

Pegg gives no reference to the 1985 work on group actions.

Example 3— The 4×4×4 Cube

A note from 27 years ago today—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100621-Cube830621.gif

As far as I know, this version of the
group-actions theorem has not yet been ripped off.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Chinese Cubes Continued

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:28 am

A search for “Chinese Cube” (based on the the previous entry’s title) reveals the existence of a most interesting character, who…

“… has attempted in his books to produce a Science and Art of Reasoning using the simplest of the Platonic solids, the Cube. [His] model also parallels, in some ways, the Cube of Space constructed from the Sepher Yetzirah’s attributions for the Hebrew letters and their direction. [He] elucidated his theories at great length….”

More…

For related remarks, see the link to Solomon’s Cube from the previous entry.

Then of course there is…

http://www.log24.com/log/pix09A/091024-RayFigure.jpg

Click on figure for details.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Chinese Cubes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

From the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Jan. 26, 2005:

What is known about unit cubes
by Chuanming Zong, Peking University

Abstract: Unit cubes, from any point of view, are among the simplest and the most important objects in n-dimensional Euclidean space. In fact, as one will see from this survey, they are not simple at all….

From Log24, now:

What is known about the 4×4×4 cube
by Steven H. Cullinane, unaffiliated

Abstract: The 4×4×4 cube, from one point of view, is among the simplest and the most important objects in n-dimensional binary space. In fact, as one will see from the links below, it is not simple at all.

Solomon's Cube

The Klein Correspondence, Penrose Space-Time, and a Finite Model

Non-Euclidean Blocks

Geometry of the I Ching

Related material:

Monday's entry Just Say NO and a poem by Stevens,

"The Well Dressed Man with a Beard."

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Group Theory: The Romance of Alias and Alibi*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:29 am

Alias:

Victor at 194 Tower Avenue  in "The Penguin"

Alibi:

Marcela_234  at Likewise.com

Romance in Numberland:

* Technical terms from pure mathematics —

For scholia on "the cube is being moved around," vide . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Stack+Exchange" .

IMAGE- Current math.stackexchange.com logo and a 1984 figure from 'Notes on Groups and Geometry, 1978-1986'

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Text and Context

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:28 am

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