There's something quite Mobius (as in Jean Giraud) about some of those, particularly the robed women, and the plain of solids.
Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022)
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#12There's something quite Mobius (as in Jean Giraud) about some of those, particularly the robed women, and the plain of solids.
I'd love to capture Bragdon's style with image generation. It's really quite magical, and it'd be amazing to see more of it.
I did some more reading on Bragdon, and we tore down [1] his architectural magnum opus. Quite disappointing.
[1] https://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/tag/bragdon-station/
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#13Something about this feels like a comedy of manners about a recent fad for some section of mathematics instead of, say, learning Hungarian, blazing like smallpox through a set of the gentry ... combined with a touch of the Lovecraftian horror of revelation of subjects too large for a brain only recently post-simian, more tuned to hurling rocks than visualization of the perambulations of higher-order Platonics through…
I have to say I don't understand much of your reply except for the Lovecraftian part, but I found it particularly geeky.
I think I followed the whole thing, and quite enjoyed it. But not very HN.
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#14There's something quite Mobius (as in Jean Giraud) about some of those, particularly the robed women, and the plain of solids.
I'd love to capture Bragdon's style with image generation. It's really quite magical, and it'd be amazing to see more of it. I did some more reading on Bragdon, and we tore down [1] his architectural magnum opus. Quite disappointing. [1] https://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/tag/bragdon-station/
Removing the theosophy from his work may make it more palatable (and ultimately more sensible).
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have to say I don't understand much of your reply except for the Lovecraftian part, but I found it particularly geeky.
I think I followed the whole thing, and quite enjoyed it. But not very HN.
Hunh. And here I would have thought that Hinton cubes were quite topical.
I wasn't entirely unserious about the fad, either. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions was made in 1884 and for a while, speculation and attempts at visualization of higher dimensions were popular. Hinton coined "tesseract" in 1888, and by 1904 his book The Fourth Dimension introduced his cubes. In one of Martin Gardner's books I had found a letter discussing a potential downsides of such studies, that some began to inescapably visualize the exercise progression which went along with Hinton's cubes, much to the dismay of a few afflicted.
The Thirteenth Duke of Wybourne, however, is from The Fast Show; I do a passable impression.
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#16Something about this feels like a comedy of manners about a recent fad for some section of mathematics instead of, say, learning Hungarian, blazing like smallpox through a set of the gentry ... combined with a touch of the Lovecraftian horror of revelation of subjects too large for a brain only recently post-simian, more tuned to hurling rocks than visualization of the perambulations of higher-order Platonics through…
that was fantastic, very enjoyable
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#17Something about this feels like a comedy of manners about a recent fad for some section of mathematics instead of, say, learning Hungarian, blazing like smallpox through a set of the gentry ... combined with a touch of the Lovecraftian horror of revelation of subjects too large for a brain only recently post-simian, more tuned to hurling rocks than visualization of the perambulations of higher-order Platonics through…
One of my favorite HN comments of all time.
I feel like this all happened just out of frame in a flashback sequence in The Invisibles.
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#18The handwritten font (hmm does such a phrase even exist?) in his drawings is great, not very readable, but great.
I think that you should say "script" instead of "font". Font is for typesetting. Script is (often) for handwriting.
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#19I look at his work and feel love. What a great guy. Such depth, breadth and sensitivity. Forget collecting art. I think I'd rather collect artists. And he was a theosophist!
It’s funny, I found the images somehow quite unsettling. Maybe it’s just that they look like drawings associated with magical work. Which, reading the comments here, they might be.
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#20Something about this feels like a comedy of manners about a recent fad for some section of mathematics instead of, say, learning Hungarian, blazing like smallpox through a set of the gentry ... combined with a touch of the Lovecraftian horror of revelation of subjects too large for a brain only recently post-simian, more tuned to hurling rocks than visualization of the perambulations of higher-order Platonics through…
More from the 13th Duke of Wybourne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCf1FMmHHWY