Tag: Design Cube

Würfel-Märchen

Continued from yesterday, the date of death for German billionaire philanthropist Klaus Tschira — For Tschira in this journal, see Stiftung . For some Würfel  illustrations, see this morning's post Manifest O.  A…

Manifest O

The title was suggested by http://benmarcus.com/smallwork/manifesto/. The "O" of the title stands for the octahedral  group. See the following, from http://finitegeometry.org/sc/map.html — 83-06-21 An invariance of symmetry The diamond theorem on a…

Sequel

A sequel to the 1974 film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot : Contingent and Fluky Some variations on a thunderbolt  theme: These variations also exemplify the larger Verbum  theme: Escher’s Verbum Solomon’s Cube…

Cube Partitions

The second Logos  figure in the previous post summarized affine group actions on partitions that generate a group of about 1.3 trillion permutations of a 4x4x4 cube (shown…

Thursday February 5, 2009

Through the Looking Glass: A Sort of Eternity From the new president's inaugural address: "… in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish…

Saturday May 10, 2008

MoMA Goes to Kindergarten "… the startling thesis of Mr. Brosterman's new book, 'Inventing Kindergarten' (Harry N. Abrams, $39.95): that everything the giants of modern art and architecture…