----- Original Message ----- From: Kirby Urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:21 am Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] RE: Pygame, gameMaker etc.
> > > As you well know, my tendency toward pugilism has not > disappeared - just > > evolved. > > > > For example -- > > > > I have been until now resisting sparring with you as to Fullerian > > geometry. There seems to be an obsession with regularity - in > the > > Euclidian sense. Rigid motions of regular shapes - and in that > sense it > > always seems to me to represent a pre-modern (non-Kleinian) > conception > > of geometry. > > Sparring OK by me. Sidetrip: Maybe a book about men of science and athletics. Niels Bohr, for example, was on the Danish National soccer team. His brother, a physicist colleague, while overshadowed by Niels in the laboratory - apparently outshown him on the field, being considered the premier soccer player in Denmark at the time. All according to my sources - which I hope I can reconstruct if challenged. Einstein I suspect, on the other hand, is not someone yuo would want batting clean-up. Art > > There's a filter here: what's easy enough for Kirby to program? That > narrows things drastically. I focus on the regular stuff because > that'swhat's easiest for me to code. > > Fuller's goal, on the other hand, was to come up with a coherent > geometriclanguage (a prose form) that'd describe whatever: trees, > stars, dust > mites... > > The concentric hierarchy stuff I dwell on in my hypertoons is > regular/rigid(except the jitterbug plays on joint flexibility) and > embeds in a frozen > lattice of CCP spheres. Crystallography mostly. Plus a basic > grounding in > coordinate systems and spatial relationships. Geometry 101. > > http://www.mathforum.com/kb/plaintext.jspa?messageID=3696497 > > Kirby > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
