> Behalf Of Kirby Urner > We all installed Pygeo and played with the examples for awhile (Islamic > Patterns especially).
Those are from a book called Islamic Patterns by Keith Critchlow, who I think you told be worked with Fuller, What I am playing with there in my own mind - and just playing, nothing very well achieved - are algorithms as patterns realizing visual patterns. I do a "drawing" in a non-algorithmic manner, sort of how one might draw it by hand, and then try to duplicate the same drawing taking an algorithmic approach. Meant something to me at the time, but as I say, wouldn't expect that something would be communicated by what is actually there. As it happens had lunch yesterday with an Islamic friend. Who was explaining to me something about yesterday as a Holy Day in the faith, but one in which Sunni and Shiite practice and ideas diverge vehemently, it being a holiday having something to do with the succession to the Prophet, which is in particular, apparently, the branches diverge. And why it seems to be a day of fraternal fighting. He was also trying to convince me it was an important Jewish holiday, because I believe in the context of the event being celebrated in the Islamic faith, it was considered to coincide with an event in the Jewish calendar. Wasn't aware of yesterday as a significant day in the Jewish calendar, but that doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't. Python. I it was really a business discussion. He has a technology background. Oracle sys admin mostly. But he has lost touch as a hands on guy, is having trouble making a living, and this was something of a strategy session. He wanted me to look at a product that he is interested in supporting and selling. It's a Business Mapping tool, part of a Business Process Management suite developed out of New Zealand. Hot stuff. And we start it up, and I see in the status bar, quite out of the blue "...initializing Python". More digging, it is developed in Delphi, with Python embedded as a glue piece, and with a wonderful little tool to walk people who may not know Python through the process of writing Python glue scripts. Anyway... Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
