> The bottom line on Surrealism: ...
>
> The bottom line on Escher: many algorithmic approaches to his visual
> style could be done. Some are mathematically more demanding than others.
Bottom lines? On art? Hmmm. I wonder what Picasso's Net After Tax Profit
Margin was?
The fact that some folks wandered into the area of mathematics when
talking about Escher is simply an aside to the main discussion. Escher is
not just mathematics. The way he used mathematical concepts in the course
of his artistic expression, much as other artists use a paintbrush, shows
that he was a unique artist. It makes him remarkable, but it isn't all
that he was.
To sum up Escher by saying that we can duplicate his math, is like saying
we can copy Da Vinci by using the same type of canvas he did. Where Escher
went with mathematics is much more interesting than the fact that he used
them.
Poor old Escher. Tossed into the math bin and ignored. :)
> So having exhausted both of these subjects, would anyone care to take
> on a thornier narrative problem, say, "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare?
Lord Polonius
What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet
Words, words, words.
...
Lord Polonius
The actors are come hither, my lord.
Hamlet
Buz, buz!
Here's an idea that interests me. What if there was a place where you
could be sitting, talking to a friend, and in wander two actors (or
automatic people, under computer control), who are acting out Hamlet? You
could pause and listen to a few lines, as you would pause and listen to a
few bars of whatever music is playing in the room.
Or maybe a place where you must wear period costume, and speak
Elizabethan English in order to be accepted?
Maybe I'll design a Polonius to follow me around and say inane things, so
I can verbally toy with him, occasionally. :)
Hmmm. Where do you plan on hanging out in Cyberspace, Brandon?
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