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Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Coloring Brick Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:24 pm

Aiello's Mural Style —

Cullinane's Abstract Style —

Cayley superline  of the Klein quadric in PG(5,2)
is actually a plane of the quadric.  Any such plane can be
pictured as a set of seven partitions of an 8-set into four 2-sets,
with the partitions satisfying certain geometric conditions.
A prototypical example of such a set: the four-colored bricks 
numbered 1 through 7 at left in the picture below.

Lucy’s Legacy

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:31 am

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Today’s Google Notebook AI Summary

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:30 pm

https://notebook.google.com/notebook/
62ad8daa-277e-4fea-a680-9b209883f232

These sources examine the Cullinane diamond theorem, a mathematical framework that links visual symmetry in 4×4 tiled arrays to the abstract principles of finite projective geometry. By applying a specific group of permutations to these two-color patterns, the research demonstrates that every resulting image maintains a consistent geometric or color-interchange symmetry. This work establishes a deep correspondence between combinatorial partitions of an 8-set and the 105 lines of the Klein quadric within the projective space PG(5,2). Furthermore, the sources connect these patterns to advanced topics such as the Mathieu group M24, the Miracle Octad Generator, and the Leech lattice. Beyond pure mathematics, the text explores how these structures manifest in quilt designs, Walsh functions, and the geometry of logic. This synthesis reveals how elementary graphic arrangements act as tangible models for complex sporadic simple groups and error-correcting codes.

Monday, April 6, 2026

Annals of Academic Politics:
Waymark Art

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:10 pm

For some related remarks on art illustrating the geometry  of latin squares,
vide  The Order-4 Latin Squares.
 

Friday, January 30, 2026

Waymark* for January 30

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:58 am

* See the term "Waymark" in this journal.

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Annals of Cultural Appropriation:
Waymark for Erewhon

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 7:09 am

260127-Elliott_Smith-memorial-mural-in-LA.jpg

In 2004 —

See as well this  journal on the above upload date, 7 August 2010 —

The Matrix ReloadedCamp InceptionRift Designs .

Cultural Waymarks:  In the Fold

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:16 am

"the reflection in the water showed an iron man"

is the line of verse by Elliott Smith that lay hidden
in a fold of cloth on the breast of Soundwavesoffwax
in an Instagram post yesterday.

Related meditation —

Tony Stark in  The Avengers , May the Fourth, 2012

Monday, January 26, 2026

Incidental Cultural Waymarks*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:38 am

collider.com/kate-mara-sci-fi-movie-the-astronaut-
streaming-hulu-february-2026

* See as well Waymark in this  journal.

Friday, January 23, 2026

Waymarks

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:09 am

See as well this  journal on October 11, 2003.

A Summerfield Waymark Prize:
MacLean for McLaren

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 1:37 am

Earlier:

Friday, January 16, 2026

From a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:58 am

The date on a cartoon in the previous post — Sept. 19, 2019 —
suggests a review of the same date six years later . . .

See as well other posts now tagged Cullinane AI .

Related concept: "ghostly heptagons" —

Related art —

See this journal on the day of Becket (not Beckett), 2025.

Friday, September 19, 2025

Waymark Memorial

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:35 am

Monday, March 21, 2022

Candidate for the Waymark Prize

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:26 am

The previous post suggests a review of
a Log24 post from
 August 22, 2020 —

From a web page —

From YouTube, for the Church of Synchronology 

For some context, see Holocron  in this journal.

Friday, March 18, 2022

Found† in Space*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 9:42 pm

* See Box16.space, Box16.group, and Box16.art

Not so found See Waymark Prize .

Friday, October 26, 2018

Saying More: Pathmark, Hallmark, Waymark

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:11 pm

The previous post (Pathmark Meets Hallmark) suggests
a review of the Waymark Prize in mathematics.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Piece Prize

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 6:15 pm

The Waymark Prize from 'A Piece of Justice' (1995) by Jill Paton Walsh

The Waymark Prize Mystery - 'A Piece of Justice' (1995) p. 138

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Building a Mystery

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:02 pm

Notes on Mathematics and Narrative, continued

Patrick Blackburn, meet Gideon Summerfield…

From a summary of a politically correct 1995 feminist detective novel about quilts, A Piece of Justice

The story deals with “one Gideon Summerfield, deceased.” Summerfield, a former tutor at (the fictional) St. Agatha’s College, Cambridge University, “is about to become the recipient of the Waymark prize. This prize is awarded in Mathematics and has the same prestige as the Nobel. Summerfield had a rather lackluster career at St. Agatha’s, with the exception of one remarkable result that he obtained. It is for this result that he is being awarded the prize, albeit posthumously.”  Someone is apparently trying to prevent a biography of Summerfield from being published.

The following page contains a critical part of the solution to the mystery:

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06B/PieceOfJustice138.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Compare and contrast with an episode from the resume of a real  Gideon Summerfield

Head of Strategy, Designer City (May 1999 — January 2002)

Secured Web agency business from new and existing clients with compelling digital media strategies and oversaw delivery of creative, production and technical teams…. Clients included… Greenfingers  and Lord of the Dance .

For material related to Greenfingers  and Lord of the Dance , see Castle Kennedy Gardens at Wicker Man  Locations.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Sunday December 10, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm
On This Date

“… in 1896 Alfred Nobel,
the inventor of dynamite and
founder of the Nobel prizes,
died in San Remo, Italy,
at age 63.”

— “Today in History,”
by The Associated Press

… And the Nobel Prize
     for Bullshit goes to…

David Titcher,

author and co-producer of
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear.


First Runner-up

A Piece of Justice.

From a summary of the novel:

The story deals with “one Gideon Summerfield, deceased.” Summerfield, a former tutor at (the fictional) St. Agatha’s College, Cambridge University, “is about to become the recipient of the Waymark prize. This prize is awarded in Mathematics and has the same prestige as the Nobel….”

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Wednesday December 6, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:15 am
Mathematical Imagery

From the current
American Mathematical Society
“Mathematical Imagery” page:

AMS Mathematical Imagery

From today’s New York Times:

Rosie Lee Tompkins obituary

“Rosie Lee Tompkins, a renowned African-American quiltmaker whose use of dazzling color and vivid geometric forms made her work internationally acclaimed despite her vehement efforts to remain completely unknown, was found dead on Friday at her home in Richmond, Calif. She was 70.” —Margalit Fox, NY Times 12/6/06
Tompkins was found dead
on December 1, 2006.
 From Log24 on that date:
The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06B/061201-DayWithout.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

That entry contained an excerpt from
Tom Wolfe’s The Painted Word

“What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of The New York Times saying: In looking at a painting today, ‘to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial.’ I read it again. It didn’t say ‘something helpful’ or ‘enriching’ or even ‘extremely valuable.’ No, the word was crucial….”

Related material:

Diamond Theory
 
and a politically correct
1995 feminist detective novel
about quilts,

A Piece of Justice.

From a summary of the novel:

The story deals with “one Gideon Summerfield, deceased.” Summerfield, a former tutor at (the fictional) St. Agatha’s College, Cambridge University, “is about to become the recipient of the Waymark prize. This prize is awarded in Mathematics and has the same prestige as the Nobel. Summerfield had a rather lackluster career at St. Agatha’s, with the exception of one remarkable result that he obtained. It is for this result that he is being awarded the prize, albeit posthumously.”  Someone is apparently trying to prevent a biography of Summerfield from being published.

The following page contains
a critical part of the solution
to the mystery:
The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06B/PieceOfJustice138.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Meanwhile, back in real life…

It is said that the late Ms. Tompkins
liked to work while listening to the
soundtrack of “Saturday Night Fever.”

“It’s just your jive talkin’
you’re telling me lies, yeah
Jive talkin’
you wear a disguise
Jive talkin’
so misunderstood, yeah
Jive talkin’
You really no good”

These lyrics may also serve
to summarize reviews
of Diamond Theory written
in the summer of 2005.

For further details, see
Mathematics and Narrative.

 

Friday, June 16, 2006

Friday June 16, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:00 am

For Bloomsday 2006:

Hero of His Own Story

"The philosophic college should spare a detective for me."

Stephen Hero.  Epigraph to Chapter 2, "Dedalus and the
Beauty Maze," in Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, S. J.,
Yale University Press, 1957 (in the Yale paperback edition of
1963, page 18)

"Dorothy Sayers makes a great deal of sense when she points out
in her highly instructive and readable book The Mind of the Maker
that 'to complain that man measures God by his own measure is
a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;
he has no other yardstick.'"

— William T. Noon, S. J., Joyce and Aquinas (in the Yale paperback
edition of 1963, page 106)

Related material:

  • Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
  • Jill Paton Walsh's detective novel A Piece of Justice (1995):
    "The mathematics of tilings and quilting play background
    roles in this mystery in which a graduate student attempts
    to write a biography of the (fictitious) mathematician
    Gideon Summerfield. Summerfield is about to posthumously
    receive the prestigious (and, I should point out, also fictitious)
    Waymark Prize in mathematics…but it soon becomes clear
    that someone with evil intentions does not want the student's
    book to be published!
    By all accounts this is a well written mystery…
    the second by the author with college nurse Imogen Quy playing
    the role of the detective."
    Mathematical Fiction by Alex Kasman,
    College of Charleston

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INTEGRITAS, CONSONANTIA, CLARITAS.

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