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Monday, September 9, 2024

Accentuate the Positive

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:27 pm

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Gold Dust

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:42 am

For a California novelist
who reportedly died at 99
on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023 —
cf.  Friday,  Oct, 20,  2023.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Art Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:19 am

Digital . . .

Physical . . .

Conceptual . . .

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Chapter 11 Continues: A Larger Box

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

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

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

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

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

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

Iconology 2023

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:46 am

Some background on the square patterns shown in recent
posts tagged Iconology 2023

Click to enlarge.

See also Iconology in Wikipedia.

Friday, October 20, 2023

Circle Zen … Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:56 pm

Detail from an Instagram post published on Sept. 24, 2023 —

See also "Circle and Square."

Artfield Invitation

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:47 pm

Last night's touching dialogue on "Loki" between Victor Timely and
Miss MInutes suggests a review of a recent rather one-sided conversation
of my own —

Thus far, there has been no reply.

The "Loki" dialogue above took place in Chicago, a town repeatedly
described by novelist Willard Motley as a "blue-black panther."

Perhaps the email addressee has in mind the sage advice of
Ogden Nash . . .

"If called by a panther, don't anther."

Scriptural Exegesis

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:42 am

The Wikipedia Language Icon from the previous post

Scattering Ashes, Gathering Dust

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:20 am

Related art —

From Savage Logic

Sunday, March 15, 2009  5:24 PM

The Origin of Change

A note on the figure
from this morning's sermon:

Diamond Theory version of 'The Square Inch Space' with yin-yang symbol for comparison

"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
On one another, as a man depends 
On a woman, day on night, the imagined 
On the real. This is the origin of change. 
Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace 
And forth the particulars of rapture come."

— Wallace Stevens,   
"Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,"
Canto IV of "It Must Change"

Monday, October 16, 2023

A Harlan Kane Rite Aid Special:  Chapter 11

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

From a search in this journal for "Chapter 11" —

 

Inner structure —

IMAGE- Hyperplanes (square and triangular) in PG(3,2), and coordinates for AG(4,2)

The above three images share the same
vector-space structure —

   0     c     d   c + d
   a   a + c   a + d a + c + d
   b   b + c   b + d b + c + d

a + b

a + b + c

a + b + d

  a + b + 
  c + d

   (This vector-space a b c d  diagram is from  
    Chapter 11 of Sphere Packings, Lattices 
    and Groups
 , by John Horton Conway and
    N. J. A. Sloane, first published by Springer
    in 1988.)

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