The architecture of the recent post
Geometry of 6 and 8 is in part
a reference to the Klein quadric.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Klein Quadric
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Eternal Color
For the above title, see posts tagged Eternal Color.
From this evening's online New York Times —
Related imaterial —
A scene from the film of the above book —
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Sunday, December 8, 2019
Geometry of 6 and 8
Just as
the finite space PG(3,2) is
the geometry of the 6-set, so is
the finite space PG(5,2)
the geometry of the 8-set.*
Selah.
* Consider, for the 6-set, the 32
(16, modulo complementation)
0-, 2-, 4-, and 6-subsets,
and, for the 8-set, the 128
(64, modulo complementation)
0-, 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-subsets.
Update of 11:02 AM ET the same day:
See also Eightfold Geometry, a note from 2010.
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
The Fontana Arches
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Spielerei
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Monday, December 2, 2019
Aesthetics at Harvard
"What the piece of art is about is the gray space in the middle."
— David Bowie, as quoted in the above Crimson piece.
Bowie's "gray space" is the space between the art and the beholder.
I prefer the gray space in the following figure —
Context: The Trinity Stone (Log24, June 4, 2018).
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Gray Space
See as well a search for Gray Space in this journal.
Related material: The Schwartz Omega .
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
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D8: The Black Queen’s Square
The previous post quoted some dialogue from Victor Hugo's
novel about the French Revolution, Ninety-Three.
This suggests a look at the following non-fiction book:
Compare and contrast with the novel The Eight , by Katherine Neville,
about chess and the French Revolution.
Neville's birthday, April 4, plays a major role in her novel. The dies natalis
(in the Roman Catholic sense) of the above Birth of the Chess Queen
author, on the other hand, was reportedly November 20, 2019.
Following a link in this journal from November 20 leads to remarks
that might interest the subjects of an upcoming film, "The Two Popes."
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Sunday, December 1, 2019
Space Song
From this journal on the above date — April 13, 2014 (Gray Space) —
Review of Seeing Gray , a book by pastor Adam Hamilton
of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City—
“Adam Hamilton invites us to soulful gray space
between polarities, glorious gray space that is holy,
mysterious, complex, and true. Let us find within
our spirits the courage and humility to live and learn
in this faithful space, to see gray, to discern a more
excellent way.”
—Review by United Methodist Bishop Hope Morgan Ward
The above flashback was suggested by CBS Sunday Morning today —
See also Romanesque in this journal.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Pediments of Appearance
Part I —
A search for images of Wallace Stevens's "Pediment of Appearance"—
Part II —
A geometric analogue of the pediment—
Note that the above cross also appears in
Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
Part III —
An echo of the above geometry—
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