Week Three

GENERAL UPDATE:

The rest of the week (since my mid-week post) has felt rather unproductive - not for lack of time or effort - have been up until 1 or 2 in the morning working at this.

I've gotten some new ideas and added to chapter 1 (Playfulness) and polished it. I've fully outlined chapter 2 (Pattern) and have more than a third of it written. What is bogging me down is creating images, of which there are many in this chapter.

I've worked with the drawing program on Word as well as the "paint" program on my computer with little success. I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I created the Pascal's Triangle Modulo 2 above by copying hexagonal graph paper and coloring the first 16 rows by hand, scanning it, uploading it, shrinking it, printing 3 copies, cutting and taping, scanning, uploading, shrinking, printing 3 copies, cutting and taping, scanning, uploading and shrinking.

That's totally PATHETIC and feels like a waste of time; after all that work it also came out crooked, but I don't have access to a better method for creating my own images(not that I know of anyway). For the second half of the week, my readings have consisted of my browsing (side bar) and my research of details for the chapters and checking out the links you sent on.

I appreciate your email and have enjoyed the links you suggested. I'm intrigued by L. E. J. Brouwer. I also especially enjoyed the book review from the New Yorker! What fun! On the poetry site I was not able to find what I was looking for . . . will try again.

When (if?!) things settle down for both of us, I'd like to talk about the non-endpoints in the Cantor set. I've had some new insights in the last couple weeks but need to wrestle with it more, but I guess this is getting ahead of the game as it is supposed to be my next study that is on fractal geometry.