CP in BC formerly known as JC,
Not now, but perhaps in the morning I can turn off the grid and get the
diagram and dimension a little more precise. But at some point the
pursuit of precision gets in the way of communicating the concept. I
am a committed believer in giving folks enough information to
understand my meaning, but not so much that I relieve them of
responsibility to think. It is weird how much we have in common. Hope
we meet at some point.
-jc
On Feb 2, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Cuyler Page wrote:
> JC,
> It always freaks me out that we share the same initials, at least we
> did when I was a youth, and this e-mail more than most, because it
> comes so close to describing my own experience as well as using my
> former name. Your use of it here made me jump for a moment, thinking
> that somehow someone knew my darkest secrets of thought. Later in
> life, a prof who didn't know my family name game called me by my
> middle name and for the first time I enjoyed having a "real" name to
> answer to.
>
> Re dimensions :
> Sorry, but 1-1/4" is not close enough. Workable for rough tasks, but
> not going to get you into Geometer's Heaven. The drawing does,
> however.
>
> Geometry is not quite Trigonometry, and the 1-1/4" strikes me as more
> like Calculus where one "approaches" the truth by little increments
> but never really arrives there.
>
> When I looked for clues in a friend's professional carpenter
> grandfather's big, well worn and well used Carpenter's Encyclopaedia
> of Practice from 1895, there was an enormous chapter dedicated to
> geometry and geometric constructions (layouts). The chapter was
> divided into strategies for making divisions, starting with bisecting
> and progressing on to divisions by every other number up to twelve.
> There was an inordinate amount of space given to the division by five,
> an enormous part of the book describing various ways to divide
> something into five parts using geometric means, but no mention
> anywhere in the book of the term "Golden Ratio". That division by
> five leads directly to and creates the Golden Ratio (also known as the
> Golden Section or Golden Mean), hence the number of craftsmen who
> might not know the name, but would certainly know the practice.
>
> cp in bc
> (formerly JC)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Callan
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:56 AM
> Subject: [BP] Corrected Golden, JC's Less than Sacred & A Tale of
> Ancient Evil and MO Evil in the Pursuit of Sacred Geometry
>
>
> <image.tiff>(In the olden days, long long ago, when architects
> designed with pencils and engineers did what they were told and all
> was right with the world, there was a tool called an Adjustable
> Triangle. A magic tool. In those days a younger and much more
> attractive JC, [Not that anyone noticed] would set his magic
> adjustable triangle to the diagonal of a golden rectangle. Then he
> would proceed to draw additional rectangles knowing that as long as
> each rectangle had the same diagonal, or its perpendicular, it too
> would be golden. Professor Weber may not have been pleased, but he was
> satisfied that he had beaten JC into submission, [which he believed
> was his duty]. With JC down, domination of the studio was complete,
> and all the designs produced by the studio were uniformly covered in
> golden rectangles.
>
> In the next chapter we will learn how in the final critique (ritual
> dual of egos and magic incantations), the evil Dr. Glasser managed to
> praise Professor Weber's powers as an Archeted, while he reamed the
> entire studio out very thoroughly for having allowed themselves to be
> uniformly beaten into submission.
>
> JC rarely agreed with the evil Dr. Glasser. The realization that he
> did agree, and exhaustion, and a little wine. were enough to get him
> good and drunk. Ahh the good old days.
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