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 […]
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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.
Altair Designs and Jules Bourgoin. Bridges MathArt 2025.
Jules Bourgoin was a master of Early Islamic visual logic.
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 […]
3D THINKING PRE-ORDER FOR APRIL/MAY 2018
PRE-ORDER NOW! Available Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK. and through other major distributors. Link for Book Description Second Description and Reviews
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 […]
A Geometry of Early Islam – Nesting Polygons
“3D Thinking” Page 190, 191: There are a number of Islamic design methodologies of which the “Nesting Polygon” method is one. The method places an arrangement of polygons within a polygon and continues infinitely placing the same but scaled arrangement within each polygon as it appears. The method was used to generate a lattice from […]
A Geometry of Early Islam – ABJAD, Circles and a Door
“3D Thinking” Pages 175 to 177 Islamic Geometry: This Seljuk period door dates from 13th-century Anatolia and stands as a possible example of a use of numeric values to communicate a message. The door’s design is based the Islamic “close-packing circle” method of design – in this case an arrangement of close-packing circles within a pentagon. The two primary numbers […]
