Nazca Lines: Spirals and Labyrinths

This will be my only post for 2021 as I’ve been working on my new book all to do with visualization and imagination in the arts and architecture; through time (almost complete). This post is from my 2020 paper given at Bridges Math/Art 2020. Two animations and one illustration sequence. The Nazca giant-geoglyph spirals that […]

Labyrinths Mysteries and Methods

Just posted a video supplement to my 2020 Bridges Paper “Labyrinths Mysteries and Methods,” on my youtube channel rogerburrowsimages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5td10JrcrU. The link to the paper is http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/202… The paper and the supplement present five methods for constructing labyrinths that can be used to create ancient labyrinths or used to create new ones as far as […]

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VISUAL LOGIC: FIRST SIGNS – ICE AGE TO 3,000 BCE

“3D Thinking” Page 15. Evolution of signs towards symbols from 70,000 to 5,000 years ago – where the European ice age ended around 14,000 years ago. We see directional lines that criss-cross to form triangular shapes, shapes composed of directional lines that appear rectangular, linear arrangements of dots, ‘bell’ like enclosed shapes, feather like forms, […]

VISUAL LOGIC: McGURK EFFECT

“3D Thinking” Page 22 The McGurk Effect: An example of how our brain forms perceptions from fragmentary sensory information. Here, from a BBC 2 program, Prof Lawrence Rosenblum pronounces the word “ba” continuously. The video shows his mouth pronouncing “ba” but then the video shows his mouth changing to pronounce the word “fa” – but […]