Continens Est Formalius Contento (I Girigogoli)

Come la maggior parte degli uomini, tanto parlando quanto scrivendo, hanno parole e frasi favorite e abituali maniere di
dire che introducono nel discorso talora senza intenzione, ossia senza avvedersene, e non di raro anche dove non ci stanno, cosi quasi ogni pittore ha certe maniere abituali eh' egli mette in mostra e che gli sfuggono senza che egli se ne accorga....

Ivan Lemolieff
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Aphorismatica (3)

Symbols

Symbols, as far as one knows, do not fill themselves with their own intentions.


Flux

To say with meaning, “Everything is in flux”, as Heraclitus did anciently, is to say, among other things, that one is in flux too, and that even the meaning imparted to the sentence, “Everything is in flux”, is—in flux. In that case, is not everything not in flux as well?


Prophet Of Humanitas

Among the chimpanzees there appeared a prophet, arrow-eyed and with Florentine fingers. He signed: “Brothers and sisters, Humanitas is written so”—then wrote the following character in the air forwards and backwards, so that the congregation could read it from both points of view, his and their own:



There were grunts of approval among the chimpanzees, many mimicking the character in the air, some signing the strokes forwards, some backwards, some backwards and forwards as if that were the complete form of the character. There was a long round of applause. The prophet of the chimpanzees then added—signing gingerly with mordant fingers—“But a caveat”. There was silence. “It only counts”, continued the prophet, “When you have the upper hand and the humanity you recognize is someone else’s.”


Illumination

One illumination is becoming conscious of one’s own masks, including the mask of thinking oneself conscious.


The Future

Logic is not the application of logic, just as physics is not applied physics. Unless the rules of logic themselves are constantly in flux, then what is true about the future, as Aristotle saw, is that in the future the future will remain quite as conditional as it is in past or present. What this means put as simply as possible is that what was not going to happen the day after tomorrow yesterday is not going to happen tomorrow today.


Duality

As Kant saw, the prime duality in regard to the physical world is not what is and what is not, nor changing and unchanging, nor up and down, nor even here and there, but left and right.

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Variations On The Stadium (Animated .GIF Versions)

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N.B.: The above are small, very abbreviated versions in animated .GIF to meet file size requirements of the off-blog hosting site for animated .GIF.

Image size, length in frames, and colors have been severely reduced while still trying to maintain as much of the original integrity of the files as possible.

Reducing animated .GIF size to meet file size requirements is a complex process, involving both color compression and other procedures. Though some software algorithms are fairly successful in reducing animated .GIF image size and sorting colors--to generate thumbnails, for example--many other algorithms often mutilate .GIF files under JPG/JPEG-MPEG or Flash compression beyond all reognition.

However good the automated algorithms, a manual process fit to the specific image and animation always has the advantage.

In the cases above, for example, one went through several discrete steps, reducing image size, eliminating marginal frames, using a custom visible palette of 256 colors, and then reducing the colors adaptively from 256 to 150.

A still image from the original file, intended eventually as a segment in video, follows. Click on the image to view at full size and resolution: