Monday, September 9, 2024
Accentuate the Positive
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Gold Dust
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
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Chapter 11 Continues: A Larger Box
"… 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
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.
Artfield Invitation
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
Scattering Ashes, Gathering Dust
Related art —
From Savage Logic— Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:24 PM The Origin of Change
A note on the figure
"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
— Wallace Stevens, |
Monday, October 16, 2023
A Harlan Kane Rite Aid Special: Chapter 11
From a search in this journal for "Chapter 11" —
Inner structure —
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 + |
(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.)