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From The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind, by Michael C. Corballis:
Irving Biederman ... has proposed a set of 36 generalized cones that he calls geons, which is short for "geometric ions". He suggests that this basic vocabulary is sufficient to generate virtually all of the shapes we know, at least to the point at which they can be recognized. The geons are chosen, moreover, so that they are as discriminable from one another as possible, even when rotated into different orientations.
I liked the name and "geonetics" was already taken, so GEONius it is!
Our plaster ceilings at home have a repeating flower pattern made by rotating a circular brush back and forth while the plaster is wet. When the sun is at the right angle, one of the petals on one of the flowers looks like a big-beaked penguin in a Nehru jacket - or maybe that's just my Linuxishness tweaking my perception! (I added the buttons and the eyes!)
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Dare Call It Treason" by Vincent Bugliosi in The Nation | GTML-generated HTML (Gihan Perera / Bruno Beaufils) |