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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Horizon

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker  today, quoting
the late Clive James's description of

" … an adaptation of 'War and Peace' 'Dead ground is
the territory you can’t judge the extent of until you approach it:
seen from a distance, it is unseen. Almost uniquely amongst
imagined countries, Tolstoy’s psychological landscape is
without dead ground— the entire vista of human experience is
lit up with an equal, shadowless intensity, so that separateness
and clarity continue even to the horizon.' "

X Marks the Spot

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

From 'Models and Metaphors' by Max Black, Cornell U. Press 1962

History

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

For St. Andrew

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:45 am

'Where or When' lyrics

Date

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:56 am

A search result gives what is apparently the original date for
a story that Ars Technica  republished yesterday for Black Friday
(see previous post) —

Another story, also from November 25, 2013 —

Friday, November 29, 2019

Tech Drama for Stephanie*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:49 pm

* See Stephanies in this journal.
   See also Best Picture and, more generally, The Accountant.

Symmetry in Practice

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:03 am

Some  background for the previous post

Verifying Aitchison’s Cuboctahedral Generation of M24

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:06 am

Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24

Shown below are Aitchison's March 2018 M24 permutations
and their relabeling, with digits only, for MAGMA checking.

In the versions below, r g b stand for red, green, blue. 
Infinity has been replaced by 7 (because a digit was needed,
and the position of the infinity symbol in the Aitchison cube
was suited to the digit 7).

             (r7,r1)(b2,g4)(r3,r5)(r6,g0)
 mu0=   (g7,g2)(r4,b1)(g6,g3)(g5,b0)
             (b7,b4)(g1,r2)(b5,b6)(b3,r0)

 mu1 =  (r7,r2,)(b3,g5)(r4,r6)(r0,g1)
             (g7,g3)(r5,b2)(g0,g4)(g6,b1)
             (b7,b5)(g2,r3)(b6,b0)(b4,r1)

 mu2 =  (r7,r3)(b4,g6)(r5,r0)(r1,g2)
             (g7,g4)(r6,b3)(g1,g5)(g0,b2)
             (b7,b6)(g3,r4)(b0,b1)(b5,r2)

 mu3 =  (r7,r4)(b5,g0)(r6,r1)(r2,g3)
             (g7,g5)(r0,b4)(g2,g6)(g1,b3)
             (b7,b0)(g4,r5)(b1,b2)(b6,r3)

 mu4 = (r7,r5)(b6,g1)(r0,r2)(r3,g4)
            (g7,g6)(r1,b5)(g3,g0)(g2,b4)
            (b7,b1)(g5,r6)(b2,b3)(b0,r4)

 mu5 =  (r7,r6)(b0,g2)(r1,r3)(r4,g5)
             (g7,g0)(r2,b6)(g4,g1)(g3,b5)
             (b7,b2)(g6,r0)(b3,b4)(b1,r5)

 mu6 = (r7,r0)(b1,g3)(r2,r4)(r5,g6)
            (g7,g1)(r3,b0)(g5,g2)(g4,b6)
            (b7,b3)(g0,r1)(b4,b5)(b2,r6)

Table 1 —

                0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7       
           r    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8 
           g   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
           b 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 

The wReplace program was used with Table 1 above
to rewrite mu0-mu6 for MAGMA. 

The resulting code for MAGMA

G := sub< Sym(24) |
(8,2)(19,13)(4,6)(7,9)
(16,11)(5,18)(15,12)(14,17)
(24,21)(10,3)(22,23)(20,1),

(8,3)(20,14)(5,7)(1,10)
(16,12)(6,19)(9,13)(15,18)
(24,22)(11,4)(23,17)(21,2),

(8,4)(21,15)(6,1)(2,11)
(16,13)(7,20)(10,14)(9,19)
(24,23)(12,5)(17,18)(22,3),

(8,5)(22,9)(7,2)(3,12)
(16,14)(1,21)(11,15)(10,20)
(24,17)(13,6)(18,19)(23,4),

(8,6)(23,10)(1,3)(4,13)
(16,15)(2,22)(12,9)(11,21)
(24,18)(14,7)(19,20)(17,5),

(8,7)(17,11)(2,4)(5,14)
(16,9)(3,23)(13,10)(12,22)
(24,19)(15,1)(20,21)(18,6),

(8,1)(18,12)(3,5)(6,15)
(16,10)(4,17)(14,11)(13,23)
(24,20)(9,2)(21,22)(19,7)>;

G;
Order(G);
CompositionFactors(G);

The Aitchison generators passed the MAGMA test.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

The Zeitgeist Finger

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:30 am

(A title for Harlan Kane.)

Cartoon caption from The New Yorker  issue dated Dec. 2, 2019 —

“Someday I’ll buy a little place in the country
and take my finger off the Zeitgeist.”

This (along with the previous post) suggests a Log24 search for Zeitgeist.

That search concludes, appropriately for today, with a meditation 
on giving thanks.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

A Companion-Piece for the Circular Rectangle:

For the circular rectangle, see today's earlier post "Enter Jonathan Miller…."

The Square Triangle

Triangles are Square

A recent view of the above address —

Enter Jonathan Miller, with Circular Rectangle

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:03 pm

The late Jonathan Miller on the existence of the soul:

"The idea of a disembodied person makes no sense
at all, any more than the idea of a circular rectangle
makes sense."

Business Models

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:41 am

Yesterday's post on a recent sci-fi film suggests a look at LA news . . .

From the LA Times  Monday morning —

“He was working at the Children’s Television Workshop, as the treasurer or something, and I felt that wasn’t an important enough job for him,” Fuchs said. “At that time, we were doing a lot of acquisitions so he was buying music and concerts from around the world. I once asked him how he liked it, and Frank said: ‘I don’t know. There are no answers in this business.’”

Biondi is credited with helping establish the successful model of a premium subscription channel….

As opposed to an unsuccessful  model —

See also "High Life" (from a post of April 1 this year) —

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira l’ennui.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:15 pm

Earlier posts now tagged Coup de Dés suggest a current film review:

Aniara (2019)— 'A sci-fi film that has it all: Outer space, European ennui, and sex cults'

Alea Iacta Est*

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

Saturday evening's post Diamond Globe suggests a review of

Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24 —

Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24

     * A Greek version for the late John SImon:

«Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος».

Monday, November 25, 2019

Sunday in Valhalla

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:59 pm

Critic John Simon reportedly died at 94 on Sunday in Valhalla, N.Y. —

A search for Simon in this  journal yields

Wednesday March 10, 2004 — m759 @ 4:07 AM 

Ennui of the First Idea

“Language was no more than a collection of meaningless conventional signs, and life could absurdly end at any moment. He [Mallarmé] became aware, in Millan’s* words, ‘of the extremely fine line

separating absence and presence, being and nothingness, life and death, which later … he could place at the very centre of his work and make the cornerstone of his personal philosophy and his mature poetics.’ “

— John Simon, "Squaring the Circle"

A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé , by Gordon Millan

See also Cornerstone.

Far from Home

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:48 pm

Peter Parker : How could you do all of this?
Quentin Beck : You'll see, Peter. Peopleneed to believe.

From Sunday morning, a "green vault" hyperbolic paraboloid —

"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia

'Green Vault' hyperbolic paraboloid

A related image —

The Stars at Noon

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

See Bester + Stars.

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Hyperbolic Memorial

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:46 am

From "Back to the Saddle," a post of Nov. 23, 2010

"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101123-Saddle.jpg

See as well . . .

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Diamond Globe

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:23 pm

An image from All Souls' Day 2010 —

IMAGE- 'Permutahedron of Opposites'-- 24 graphic patterns arranged in space as 12 pairs of opposites

This is from earlier posts tagged Permutahedron.

See also
Wallace Stevens:
A World of Transforming Shapes
.

From that book (click to enlarge) —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111224-Perlis-500w.jpg

"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime.

Also from earlier posts tagged Permutahedron

The Mathieu group cube of Iain Aitchison (2018, Hiroshima)

The Oboe Connection

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:46 pm

For Harlan Kane

“… We found,
If we found the central evil, the central good….
… we and the diamond globe at last were one.”

— "Asides on the Oboe," by Wallace Stevens

This post was suggested by a death on the night of
Friday, November 22 — St. Cecilia's Day.

For the oboe connection, see an obituary.

Plan 9 in a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:59 am

In memory of Gahan Wilson, "too cool for  school" —

Notes towards the Definition of Box Office

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:20 am

Salzburg Requiem

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:59 am

Porsche.com on Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who reportedly
died at 76 in Salzburg on 5 April 2012 —

"The credo of his design work was:

'Design must be functional and functionality has to 
be translated visually into aesthetics, without gags
that have to be explained first.' 

F.A. Porsche:
'A coherently designed product requires no adornment;
it should be enhanced by its form alone.'

The design’s appearance should be readily comprehensible
and not detract from the product and its function.
His conviction was: 'Good design should be honest.' "

See also last night's 11:32 PM post, and posts tagged Structural Logic.

Friday, November 22, 2019

For Faustus on 11/22

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:32 pm

This flashback was suggested by today's essay
"The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus," by Andrew Marzoni.

Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu …

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:39 pm

Continued from October 29, 2019.

More illustrations (click to enlarge) —

The Virgin Field:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:45 am

 Representing Schoolgirl Space

From a book reviewed in the April 1923 
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society —

From a later book —

"Her wall is filled with pictures" — Chuck Berry

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

The Secret Life of Walter Minton

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:40 pm

For the late Walter J. Minton, publisher at G. P.  Putnam's Sons

"Walter graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey…."

New York Times  obituary, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019

See that school in the post Bloomsday Trinity of June 22, 2016.

Winners for Losers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:42 pm

After Rothko

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:52 pm

RED
_____________________________________________________________________________


 

GRAY
______________________


Arya on Rothko

“Experience is the best teacher,” they say.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:23 am

Related readings — Also from 11/08/2005 — A Constant Idea, and
some related posts
 that link to

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