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Thursday, July 30, 2020

A Picture Show for Quanta Magazine

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:33 am

An article yesterday at Quanta Magazine  suggests a review . . .

From Diamond Theorem  images at Pinterest —

Some background —

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

A Picture Show for Bogdanovich and Fosse

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:58 am

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Symplectic Structure…

In the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG):

The above details from a one-page note of April 26, 1986, refer to the
Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis, as it was published in 1976:

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100514-Curtis1976MOG.jpg

From R. T. Curtis (1976). A new combinatorial approach to M24,
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ,
79, pp 25-42. doi:10.1017/S0305004100052075.

The 1986 note assumed that the reader would be able to supply, from the
MOG itself, the missing top row of each heavy brick.

Note that the interchange of the two squares in the top row of each
heavy brick induces the diamond-theorem correlation.

Note also that the 20 pictured 3-subsets of a 6-set in the 1986 note
occur as paired complements  in two pictures, each showing 10 of the
3-subsets.

This pair of pictures corresponds to the 20 Rosenhain tetrads  among
the 35 lines of PG(3,2), while the picture showing the 2-subsets
corresponds to the 15 Göpel tetrads  among the 35 lines.

See Rosenhain and Göpel tetrads in PG(3,2). Some further background:

Friday, March 5, 2010

Space Case

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:48 am

Large ad, front page top, for Tom Brokaw's 'Boomers' in NY Times of March 4th, 2010

"And there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space…"
— Don McLean, "American Pie

    Cybill Shepherd (born 1950) and Jeff Bridges (born 1949) in 'The Last Picture Show'

Today's NY Times says Robert T. McCall, space artist, died at 90 on Feb. 26.

"His most famous image may be the gargantuan mural, showing events from the creation of the universe to men walking on the Moon, on the south lobby wall of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington. More than 10 million people a year pass it.

Or it might be his painting showing a space vehicle darting from the bay of a wheel-shaped space station, which was used in a poster for Stanley Kubrick’s landmark 1968 film, '2001: A Space Odyssey.'"

Space station image by Robert T. McCall for '2001'

Cover art by McCall, with autograph dated
8/19/05, from a personal web page

Hal in "2010"– "Will I dream?"

Log24 on the day that McCall died

"Which Dreamed It?"
– Title of final chapter,Through the Looking Glass

"Go ask Alice… I think she'll know."
– Grace Slick, 1967  

Related material: James Joyce in this journal–

"Space: what you damn well have to see."

Thursday, July 31, 2003

Thursday July 31, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:07 am

Twanged!

Sam Phillips and Elvis

The Father of Rock and Roll,
music legend Sam Phillips,
died in a Memphis hospital
Wednesday night.

See also my entry Wednesday morning
on rock and roll, country music,
the Stones, and The Last Picture Show.

Meditation for this, the feast day of the founder of the Society of Jesus:

John Belushi

“If there’s a rock and roll heaven,
Well you know they’ve got
a hell of a band.”

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