Seasonal Themes

The stores switch to Mithraic themes after Halloween, focusing on Saturnalia mixed with Biblical themes, and by Biblical I mean to include the BC parts. I'm thinking to focus on 

• "ornaments" (polyhedra), roping in the New Years Ball (which I presume will be the usual n-frequency icosa-sphere, but I should double check), and 
  
  
• Peace on Earth with ample use of the peace sign decal.

One of the torches I carry, meaning content I consider worth passing on to coming Gs, is that of Waterman Polyhedra. 

Steve Waterman and I were early collaborators on his conception of a sequence of polyhedrons of growing complexity, meaning of increasing numbers of verts and edges, as one goes more and more outward, increasing the radius. All the verts are IVM (CCP) balls, let's assume a nucleated packing. 

We employ a convex hull finding algorithm to maximize its roundedness (minimize convexity) to pick up all verts less than or max radius from the nuclear ball.

The Peace on Earth = Promised Land meme will be familiar to some of my readers as it pops up in these blogs pretty consistently.

I'm starting to look back on 2025 already, grateful for friends and fellow faculty I've crossed paths with.

Time Slice

Making Models

I've been reviewing my Cultural Engineering notebook, featuring Zoltar the homunculus, the potentially any-gender, genderless, dude or guy, with the worldly models and/or ways of thinking realistically about stuff. 

I link to my Cultagory Theory video towards the end of that Jupyter Notebook (not playable through Github however) something to dive into next, if exploring my specific tunnel system. 

You'll find Zoltar playing his actively inferring role (observing, responding) vs-a-vs Operation Popup also, the art gallery Flextegrity manifested around this time (October) six years ago.

We link Zoltar's plastic spherical enclosure to the OmniDirectional Halo of Synergetics, likewise spherical and meant to model the modeling process itself, as one of brain-transceiving mind, a metaphor based in the experience of ideas coming to us, fully formed sometimes, perhaps in a dream (perhaps in a daydream).

When imagining a spherical shell, one is likewise conceptualizing the "two sides of the same surface" convex outer side, vs concave inner side. Convexity mirrors a wider world out there (outer space), whereas concavity concentrates inward towards a central focus (perhaps an atom, perhaps a self).

Bracketing one's sphere-of-relevance (one's shell) are the adjacent Twilight Zones (Bucky sometimes uses that term) of the "tantalizingly relevant" (just out of reach), and what in retrospect we might call "low hanging fruit" once they're grasped and incorporated -- it's an ongoing process.