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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Color Bodies

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:15 am

The above L2(23) is closely related to the "Seventh Seal" color bodies implied
by the conclusion of Cameron's classic Parallelisms of Complete Designs.

One such color body, from the set of 105 Klein quadric lines in brick space . . .

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Combinatorial Visualization

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:54 pm

A related theorem —

Monday, December 29, 2025

Octad Art — Bricks, Cubes, Flowers

For the bricks of the title, see other posts tagged Brick Space
For some cubes* and flowers, see below.

Combining features of the above two images, one might picture the 24
cells of the 4×6 array underlying the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator
(MOG) as each containing an eightfold cube, pictured as above with seven
of its subcubes showing and an eighth subcube hidden behind them.

The seven visible subcubes may be colored, as in the Curtis image of
the Klein map, with seven distinct colors… corresponding to the seven
edge-colors used in the Curtis-Klein map. Each of the seven visible
subcubes in a cell may also be labeled, on its visible faces, with a symbol
denoting one of the 24 points of the projective line over GF(23), just as the
faces in the Curtis-Klein map are labeled.  The hidden subcube in each cell
may be regarded as also so labeled, by the MOG label of the cell's position.

There is then enough information in the array's eightfold cubes' colors and
labels to construct the seven generating permutations of M24 described by
Curtis, and the 24 array cells may be regarded as now containing 24 distinct
entities — which perhaps might be called "octoids."

Those desiring a more decorative approach may replace the 24 labeled cubes
with 24 labeled "flowers." Each flower — like the map's symmetric seven
"petals" and the central "infinity heptagon" they surround — forms an octad.

Related Illustrations . . .

* See as well posts tagged Mathieu Cube . . .

Related material — 

The 56 triangles of  the eightfold cube . . .

The Eightfold Cube: The Beauty of Klein's Simple Group

   Image from Christmas Day 2005.

Post last revised:  December 30, 2025 @ 21:30 E.S.T.

Thursday, November 20, 2025

On Brick Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:24 pm

A question suggested by NotebookLM in the "Diamond Theory" notebook,
and its answer today by NotebookLM —

How are algebraic, combinatorial, and geometric structures unified within the Brick Space model?

The unification of algebraic, combinatorial, and geometric structures within the Brick Space model is achieved through its role as a graphic, isomorphic representation of key finite geometries, particularly the projective spaces PG(5,2) and PG(3,2), and their fundamental relationship via the Klein correspondence

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The term "Brick Space" originates from the arrays, or "bricks," coined by R. T. Curtis as component parts of his Miracle Octad Generator (MOG)

. These physical or graphic arrangements serve as a concrete visualization (or model) of highly abstract mathematical structures

.
1. Geometric Unification
The Brick Space model provides a geometric foundation for combinatorial objects through direct visualization of finite geometries defined over the two-element field, GF(2)
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Modeling Projective Space: The Brick Space model is the natural geometric setting for the MOG's components, which may be regarded as forming both the 5-dimensional projective space and the 3-dimensional projective space
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Visualizing PG(5,2) and the Klein Quadric: The model visually represents the space, which has 63 points, by partitioning these points into 28 points lying off the Klein quadric and 35 points lying on the Klein quadric

. The geometry of is linked to the concept of the 8-set

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The Klein Correspondence: The geometric relationship between and is formalized by the Klein correspondence

. The model, developed as a brick space, is analogous to the "line diagrams" construction of found in the Cullinane diamond theorem

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Lines and Points: The Brick Space implicitly models how the 35 lines of correspond to the 35 points on the Klein quadric in
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2. Combinatorial Unification
Combinatorial structures, primarily partitions of sets and block designs, are mapped directly onto geometric entities within the Brick Space framework
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Partitions and Lines: The central combinatorial equivalence involves mapping partitions of sets to geometric objects

. The 35 combinatorial structures arising from permutations of diamond tiles (related to the bricks) are isomorphic to the 35 lines of . These 35 structures also mirror the 35 square patterns within the original MOG

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Partitions of the 8-Set: The lines correspond to the 35 partitions of an 8-set into two 4-sets

. This same framework connects to the 105 partitions of an 8-set into four 2-sets, which are essentially the same as the 105 lines contained in the Klein quadric

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Latin Squares: The combinatorial property of orthogonality of Latin squares (specifically, order-4 Latin squares) is unified geometrically by corresponding exactly to the property of skewness of lines (non-intersecting lines) in

. This provides a geometric dictionary for abstract algebraic combinatorics

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3. Algebraic Unification
Algebraic structures, rooted in finite field theory and group theory, govern the behavior and symmetries observed in the combinatorial and geometric models
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Binary Field : The foundation of the geometry is the Galois field of two elements, (binary arithmetic: )

. The algebraic rules of dictate the structure of the affine and projective spaces represented by the bricks

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Binary Addition (XOR): The line diagrams used to formalize the patterns (related to the bricks) can be "added" via component-wise binary addition (XOR)

. The closure property of lines in is represented algebraically by the fact that the three line diagrams corresponding to a pattern always sum to zero ()

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Group Theory and Symmetry: The massive permutation group (of order 322,560) that transforms the visual patterns is isomorphic to the affine group

. This group, which explains the pervasive symmetry found in all -images, is the automorphism group of the underlying finite geometry, establishing the algebraic control over the system's geometric and combinatorial properties

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Ring Theory: The patterns can be endowed with algebraic structure to generate an ideal within a ring of symmetric patterns, leading to an infinite family of "diamond rings" isomorphic to rings of matrices over

. This links the geometry to the machinery of abstract algebra

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M24 Connection: The affine group is identified as the octad stabilizer subgroup of the Mathieu group

, linking the visual patterns and the underlying geometries to the abstract world of sporadic simple groups, coding theory (Golay code), and lattice theory (Leech lattice)

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The Brick Space model, therefore, functions as a visual tapestry where graphic arrangements (geometry/visualization) encode set partitions (combinatorics) that behave according to the rules of binary algebra ( and affine groups)

. The entire structure is unified by powerful isomorphisms relating these three mathematical domains through finite geometries like and .

Monday, November 3, 2025

The Monolith Mystery

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 1:25 pm

Transcript of NotebookLM video
"The Mystery of Brick Space" —

Okay, so our first clue
0:35
comes from the movies. You've got
0:37
Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A 
0:39
Space Odyssey. And this … this bizarre
0:42
black monolith just shows up. It's this
0:45
object of perfect almost unsettling
0:47
geometry that always signals some huge
0:50
leap in evolution. And what's really
0:52
wild is that while Kubrick was filming
0:53
this, minimalist artists like John
0:55
McCracken were creating nearly identical
0:57
sculptures totally independently of the
1:00
film. 

Scholium 

Related material 

From a post for the opening of Cullinane College
on January 29, 2003:

"Young man sings 'Dry Bones'"

Illustrations:

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101228-ThePrisonerTrial.jpg

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101228-ThePrisonerEandE.jpg

See as well "Monolith" in this  journal.

Bullshit fans may also enjoy "the monolith to El" 
in James Michener's archaeology epic The Source :

Levels of Tell Makor, from Michener's 'The Source'

Sunday, November 2, 2025

The Mystery of Brick Space . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:42 pm

. . . is the title of a NotebookLM video now on YouTube —

See https://youtu.be/6zUKg4dNEbM .

The current NotebookLM summary for the Diamond Theory notebook, the source of the above video —

"These sources comprehensively explore the deep connections between finite geometry, particularly the projective spaces PG(3,2) and PG(5,2) over GF(2), and various topics in combinatorics, group theory, and coding theory. Central to this discussion are the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) and the Cullinane Diamond Theorem, which model highly symmetric structures like the affine group AGL(4,2) and the sporadic Mathieu group M24 using geometric figures such as 4×4 arrays or 'brick space.' The geometry of PG(3,2), described as the 'smallest perfect universe,' is shown to be crucial, relating to concepts like Conwell's Heptads, Klein correspondence, spreads, and mutually orthogonal Latin squares (MOLS), which also have applications in error-correcting codes and quantum information theory involving n-qubits. Ultimately, these texts demonstrate how abstract mathematical symmetry is intrinsically linked across algebra, geometry, and visual art, often leveraging automorphism groups to reveal structural invariants."

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Brick Space Update

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:22 pm

Last night at the museum . . .

Today . . . The Mystery of Brick Space

Brick Art

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:29 am

The previous post, on a Han tomb brick, suggests a review . . .

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Architecture: Alt-Modernism

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:36 pm

A search for "Modernism" in this journal yields . . .

Related material —

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

The Mind Trick in the Attic

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , , — m759 @ 4:54 pm

"In my experience, every kind of writing requires
some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and,
when it comes to essay composition,
this rectangle is mine."

Zadie Smith in The New Yorker, Sept. 22, 2025.

A mind trick that is perhaps less self-soothing —

The dimensional reduction above, from six  affine dimensions over
GF(2) to four  dimensions, is, like a similar reduction in the previous post,
done by considering only even-sized subsets, then considering as elements
only the boundaries  between these subsets and their complements . . .
and the Galois (XOR) sums of those boundaties.

Annals of Dimensional Reduction:
“Six Dimensions into Three”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 5:57 am

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="six+dimensions+into+three"

The above link is for fans of Richard J. Trudeau's "Story Theory of Truth."

And then from pure mathematics, there is the reduction from eight dimensions
into six of Diamond Theory, in passing from the eight-dimensional affine space
over the two-element Galois field to the six-dimensional affine space used in
Diamond Theory to represent the five-dimensional projective space PG(5,2).

See other posts tagged Klein Space.

Some less demanding reading

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Contra Steiner

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:07 am

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Points

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:49 am

"What do you get with that card?"

"Big Top points."
 

Cicero, In Verrem  II. 1. 46 —

He reached Delos. There one night he secretly   46 
carried off, from the much-revered sanctuary of 
Apollo, several ancient and beautiful statues, and 
had them put on board his own transport. Next 
day, when the inhabitants of Delos saw their sanc- 
tuary stripped of its treasures, they were much 
distressed . . . .
Delum venit. Ibi ex fano Apollinis religiosissimo 
noctu clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque anti- 
quissima, eaque in onerariam navem suam conicienda 
curavit. Postridie cum fanum spoliatum viderent ii 


 

Ex Fano 

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

“Only by the form, the pattern . . . .” — Four Quartets*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 10:16 pm

Related reading — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="The+form,+the+pattern"

Sunday, July 13, 2025

For Harlan Kane — Space Devs!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:36 am

Selected sneak previews . . .

IMAGE- Frank Langella and Liam Neeson in 'Unknown'

Monday, June 30, 2025

Four-Color Fano

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:21 pm

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Brick by Brick

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:21 am

From the Log24 post "Hollywood Geometry" of March 6 —

From the Instagram of osullivanstudios on March 6 —

From a Log24 post of May 10

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Six-Set and Eight-Set:
I Ching* and Brick Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:25 pm

Earlier . . .

Today . . .

* For a connection with I Ching  geometry,  see  a different 8×8 array.

Friday, May 9, 2025

Pictures at 11:  M24.space

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:00 pm

The new URL m24.space forwards to . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=brick-space .

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Deep Search Result

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:21 am

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Annals of Bulk Apperception:  Belgium Date

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 1:06 pm

Brick Song

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:34 pm

Prologue — "Teaching a brick to sing"

The teacher . . . Emily Blunt in "Fall Guy" . . .

Vide  her karaoke version of "Take a Look at Me Now."

Hybrid Art: Box Parts

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:54 am

From https://anyflip.com/choem/ednv/basic ,
a 3×3 table of ASCII box-drawing characters
yields, using Microsoft Classic Paint, a 2×2 box.

For some other box art, see the University of Ghent . . .

Friday, April 11, 2025

Brick Space: The Yellow Brick* Road Now and in 2014

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:20 pm

Now —

… and in 2014 —

* "Brick" is a term coined by R. T. Curtis that denotes any of the three
4-row 2-column arrays that form his 4-row 6-column Miracle Octad Generator.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

The Fano Entity … in Brick Space

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:40 pm

Monday, March 31, 2025

Endings

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:14 pm

LA Times obituary yesterday

"Glover performed in many plays, TV shows and movies,
including portraying Duffy in the 1974 drama "Chinatown,”
the villain Mr. Wint in the 1971 James Bond movie
“Diamonds Are Forever” and Feldman in the 2001 drama
Ghost World.”

Better Duffy and Walsh than Wint and Kidd.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

For Patricia AnnetteThe Krazy Kat* Game

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:18 am

https://www.facebook.com/patricia.annette.31521301

* . . .

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Aaron

Filed under: General — Tags: , , ,
— m759 @ 10:01 am 

See earlier Log24 posts now tagged Aaron, about
the clash of Aaron Swartz and JSTOR, as well as
JSTOR in today's previous post, and an enthusiastic
post by @marrific yesterday on a different Aaron.

See also "A Tale of Two Intersections," about Venice,
CA, and St. Augustine's Church, New Orleans, LA. 
For a connection to the phrase "Where Madness Lies,"
used recently as a podcast title by Aaron Webman,
see the life of St. Augustine's parishioner George Herriman,
creator of "Krazy Kat."

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Annals of Brick Space . . .
Not-so-free Masonry

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:23 pm

A Google search today for "brick space" —

Related art apparently suggested by the phrase "building blocks"

A Mystery Popup

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:35 pm

The recent URL cubebrick.space forwards to . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=brick-space.

The web posts so tagged are, as one would expect,
NOT in the Harvard Library system.  I was therefore
somewhat surprised to see the following popup today —

Clicking on the "Get article" link yields . . .

This metadata is actually quite helpful, as the cited article
does, in fact, give good references for what I have called,
using a term from the "Miracle Octad Generator" of R. T. Curtis,
"brick space" — the finite projective space PG(5,2).

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

“Old men ought to be explorers” — T. S. Eliot

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:22 am

See cubebrick.space.

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