Readers often have questions. I thought adding supplements to the Visual Thinking and Seeing Through Time books as PDFs would help. This is the first! “From Sunflowers to God’s Divine Architecture of Life.” This supplement relates to Book 1, Chapter 5, Ancient Egypt. It also covers Book 2, Chapter 7, Ancient Greece. Additionally, it relates […]
Category: DIVINE PROPORTIONS
Explore Visual Thinking Through Time
Overview Visual Thinking, Seeing Through Time is a five-book series. It explores the development of visual logic from archaic humans through early civilizations. It continues into the age of artificial intelligence. The series examines how visual‑cognitive structures shape human reasoning across the arts. These structures affect architecture and geometry. This reveals deep connections between perception, culture, […]
Launch of ‘Visual Thinking’: Five Books on Art and Geometry
“Visual Thinking, Seeing Through Time” is a five-book odyssey through the human experience in Architecture, the Arts, and Geometry from the dawn of consciousness to the frontiers of artificial intelligence.
The Story of Visual Thinking—Geometry, Architecture, and the Arts. AI Audio Review.
An AI-generated 30 minute audio review of my latest book.
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 […]
Presentations & Workshops
PRESENTATIONS WORKSHOPS
A Presentation at the AAU in San Francisco, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmENxx1PToNtaGPfsVrkpQ Presentations: http://rogerburrowsimages.com/mission-statement/
FIRE ALTARS OF THE VEDAS – A LOGICAL PUZZLE FROM ANCIENT INDIA
“3D Thinking” Pages 67 to 72: Vedic Fire Altars present a logical puzzle for those building them. Firstly, the surface area has to be in direct proportion to the height of the individual whose task it is to construct the altar. Secondly, there is to be a precise alignment of the altar with the four […]
Geometry Ancient Egypt – Pyramid Proportions
“3D Thinking” Page 74 to 87: The slope ratios, dimensions, construction, and alignment methods, of the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt: THE SLOPES OF THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT Given the whole number traditions of ancient Egypt one would expect the slopes of the pyramids to be in whole number proportions too. Whole number grids of square […]
Geometry Divine Proportions
“3D Thinking” Pages 67, 75, 77, 210 to 213: Ideas of “Divine Proportions” originated in the distant past. For the Pythagoreans whole numbers resonated throughout the cosmos in sacred music, in geometry and in number. For the Harrapans of the Indus Valley they found expression in fire altars of different shapes but of constant areas […]
