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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Mexico City Blues

Filed under: General — Tags: Corefires, Pyramid Game, Tetrahedron vs. Square — m759 @ 3:12 am

The New York Times yesterday ("2022-05-24T21:54:19.000Z")
on a Saturday, May 21, death —

"Colin Cantwell, an animator, conceptual artist and computer expert
who played significant production roles in seminal science fiction films
like '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'Star Wars' and 'WarGames,' died
on May 21 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 90."

Cantwell at Teotihuacan pyramid, September 26, 2019 —

A different image, also from September 26, 2019,
in other Log24 posts tagged Pyramid Game —

The letter labels, but not the tetrahedron, are from Whitehead’s
The Axioms of Projective Geometry (Cambridge U. Press, 1906),
page 13.

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Sunday, July 5, 2020

It’s Still the Same Old Story …

Filed under: General — Tags: Cube School, Enigma Cube, Projective Opera, Pyramid Game — m759 @ 4:29 pm

“He recounted the story of Adam and Eve, who were banished
from paradise because of their curiosity. Their inability to resist
the temptation of the forbidden fruit. Which itself was a metaphorical
stand-in for knowledge and power. He urged us to find the restraint
needed to resist the temptation of the cube—the biblical apple
in modern garb. He urged us to remain in Eden until we were able
to work out the knowledge the apple offered, all by ourselves.”

— Richards, Douglas E.. The Enigma Cube (Alien Artifact Book 1)
(pp. 160-161). Paragon Press, 2020. Kindle Edition.

The biblical apple also appears in the game, and film, Assassin's Creed .

Related material —

See the cartoon version of Alfred North Whitehead in the previous post,
and some Whitehead-related projective geometry —

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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

An Ordinary Day in New Haven

Filed under: General — Tags: Pyramid Game, Yale Art Notes — m759 @ 7:30 pm

This journal on the date of Coe's death —

Related material: Today's noon post and a post from August 7, 2006.

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Friday, September 27, 2019

Algebra for Schoolgirls

Filed under: General — Tags: Pyramid Game, Schoolgirl Space, Tetrahedron vs. Square — m759 @ 8:37 am

The 15 points of the finite projective 3-space PG(3,2)
arranged in tetrahedral form:

The letter labels, but not the tetrahedral form,
are from The Axioms of Projective Geometry , by
Alfred North Whitehead (Cambridge U. Press, 1906).

The above space PG(3,2), because of its close association with
Kirkman's schoolgirl problem, might be called "schoolgirl space."

Screen Rant on July 31, 2019:

A Google Search sidebar this morning:

Apocalypse Soon! —

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Identity

Filed under: General — Tags: Geheimnis der Einheit, Pyramid Game — m759 @ 8:53 am

Related story:

E is for Einheit

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Personalities …

Filed under: General — Tags: Pyramid Game, Tetrahedron vs. Square — m759 @ 8:06 am

For Dan Brown

“It’s a combination of elation and fear, a certain kind of terror,”
Dr. Scott-Warren, a lecturer at Cambridge University, said
Thursday [Sept. 19] in an interview, describing his feelings.

“As a scholar, you get a sense of the fixed landmarks,” he said.
“Suddenly to have a new landmark to come right up through
the ground is quite disconcerting; there’s something alarming
about that.”

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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Before Personalities …

Filed under: General — Tags: Pyramid Game — m759 @ 6:10 pm

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Connecting the Dots

Filed under: General — Tags: Books as Objects, Pyramid Game — m759 @ 5:27 pm

"A scholar in England suspected annotations in a First Folio
at the Free Library of Philadelphia were John Milton’s, so he
connected the dots . . . ." — The New York Times last Thursday

“It’s a combination of elation and fear, a certain kind of terror,”
Dr. Scott-Warren, a lecturer at Cambridge University, said
Thursday in an interview, describing his feelings.

"Dr. Scott-Warren … studies the history of books as material objects …."

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