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In the Details

For the late novelist P. D. James, author of, among other things, The Children of Men . Michael Caine in the film of that book — Detail — Raven's Progressive Matrices example —  A…

Art Photography

The New York Times  this morning: Lucien Clergue, Master and Promoter of Art Photography, Dies at 80. Clergue reportedly died on November 15. From Log24 on that date— Un-Art…

Mathematics and Narrative

Mathematics:  Galois-Plane Models. Narrative: "The Dreaming Jewels."

A Tetrahedral Fano-Plane Model

Update of Nov. 30, 2014 — It turns out that the following construction appears on pages 16-17 of A Geometrical Picture Book , by  Burkard Polster (Springer, 1998). "Experienced…

Class Act

Update of Nov. 30, 2014 — For further information on the geometry in the remarks by Eberhart below, see pp. 16-17 of A Geometrical Picture Book , by Burkard Polster (Springer,…

Euclidean-Galois Interplay

For previous remarks on this topic, as it relates to symmetry axes of the cube, see previous posts tagged Interplay. The above posts discuss, among other things, the Galois projective…

"What Reality?"

"We tried to create new realities overnight, careful sets of words that resemble advertising slogans in memorability and repeatability." … Our Most Important Product …   "Omega is…

Homemade Aesthetics

Continued from Tuesday, November 18, 2014 International poster for the 2010 film "Black Swan"— "Death is a black swan." — Graciela Chichilnisky

Metaphysician in the Dark

Continued from Friday, November 21:

Remarks on Reality

Wallace Stevens in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (1950) on "The Ruler of Reality" — "Again, 'He has thought it out, he thinks it out, As he has been…