The five easy steps to design space mastery.
October 19, 2009
October 18, 2009
Dilation and vision.
Artists: Vincent VanGogh
The Café Terrace at Night
The illusion of receding space is a dilation called “perspective.”
In fact other illusions of 3 dimentions called “projections” are dilations as well.
Dilation as “fractal” or “iteration” or “hologram”
Any space within a dilation can be a new dilation or “fractal” or “iteration” or “child” copy of the original like a holograph.
October 2, 2009
Dilation in Babylon about 1900 B.C.
I’ve read that this cuneiform tablet is an instructional for scribes. It is thought to be 3,700 years old.
Graphic designers have been around for awhile.
“While the tangram is often said to be ancient, the earliest known printed reference to tangrams appears in a Chinese book dated 1813, which was probably written during the reign of the Jiaqing Emperor.[1]” The o.5 dilation inscribed lower right in the clay tablet above could easily have produced the geometry of a tangram 3,700 years ago in Babylon.
