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Unicode Diamonds

The following figure, intended to display as a black diamond, was produced with HTML and Unicode characters. Depending on the technology used to view it, the figure may contain gaps…

Film and Phenomenology

Continued from All Hallows' Eve, 2014. Last year's Halloween post displayed the Dürer print Knight, Death, and the Devil  (illustrated below on the cover of the book Film…

A Simple Group

The previous post's illustration was  rather complicated. This is a simpler algebraic figure.

Brit Award

"The Brit Awards are… the British equivalent of the American Grammy Awards." — Wikipedia  Detail of an image from yesterday's 5:30 PM ET post: Related material: From a review: "Imagine 'Raiders of…

Words and Images

The words:  "symplectic polarity"— The images: The Natural Symplectic Polarity in PG(3,2) Symmetry Invariance in a Diamond Ring The Diamond-Theorem Correlation Picturing the Smallest Projective 3-Space Quilt Block Designs

High and Low Concepts

Steven Pressfield on April 25, 2012: What exactly is High Concept? Let’s start with its opposite, low concept. Low concept stories are personal, idiosyncratic, ambiguous, often European.  “Well,…

Putting the Con in Conceptual

Edward Frenkel in The New York Times , in an op-ed piece dated Feb. 20, 2015 — "… I suggest that we regard the paradoxes of quantum physics as…

Chevalier

For Eustace Tilley … … A 1950 example of Galois coordinates .

Inside the White Square

Review: Monday, November 7, 2011 The X Box Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 10:30 AM    "Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs, quoted in The New York Times Magazine  on…

Valentine Dance

For Eliot and von Franz — "A dance results." — Marie-Louise von Franz      in Number and Time