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United Colors of Benetton: babies

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black [LEFT] >< white [RIGHT]

United Colors baby

[reinterpretation of image]

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Kit White

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“Eliminate the nonessential.  Every work of art should contain whatever it needs to fulfill its decriptive objective but nothing more.  Look at the “leftover” parts of every composition.  Successful images have no dead spaces or inactive parts.  Look at your compositions holistically and make sure that every element advances the purposes of the whole.”

[quote from White Kit, 101 Things to Learn in Art School, MIT, Cambridge Massachussets, 2011]

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Leonardo Da Vinci: Last Supper: context & detail

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rightup: when viewed from side of refectory: lines in perspective of refectory match lines in perspective of painting  [WHOLE]

><  leftup: all lines in perspective in painting point to Jesus: first symmetry

>< rightdown: second symmetry between hands of Jesus and Judas

>< leftdown: hands of Jesus and Judas simultaneously grasp bread [PART]

 

[reinterpretation of Il Cenacolo or L’Ultima Cena, Leonardo da Vinci, 1498]

Charles & Ray Eames: Mathematica: infinity

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rightup [WHOLE] >< leftdown [PART]

Each boy is 1/2 as high as the next larger boy.  The sequence of heights forms a geometric progression; there are infinitely many boys in the picture, but if they stood on each others heads, the tower would not be infinitely high, even though there are infinitely many boys, the tower would only be twice as high as the first boy.

[text from the exhibition ‘Mathematica’, by Charles and Ray Eames, 1961]

[reinterpretation of collage by Charles and Ray Eames, for the exhibition ‘Mathematica’, 1961]

Charles & Ray Eames: Mathematica: discrete >< continuous: examples

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[LEFT]: DISCRETE: The left side of the egg, and the music box, vary in clearly defined steps.  The spots froming the egg are either black or white.  The music from the music box jumps from one note to another with nothing in between.  Variations of this type are called ‘discontinuous’.  In a discrete process, there is a jump between one state and the next.  Ordinary decimals form a discrete sequence, because the change from one to the next is at least one decimal digit.  A computer based on the rules of decimal calculation is called a digital computor.

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[RIGHT]: The right side of the egg, and the slide trombone, vary in a continuous, uninterrupted gradation.  The tones in the photograph of the egg blend smoothly from one to the other.  The trombone can slide from one note to another.  Variations of this type are called ‘continuous’.  In a continuous process, one state merges imperceptibly into the next.  Some continuous processes are analogous to others, because the underlying mathematics is the same.  A computing device based on such an analogy is called an analogy is called an analog computor.

[text by from the exhibition ‘Mathematica’, by Charles and Ray Eames, 1961]

 

[reinterpretation of text by Charles and Ray Eames, for the exhibition ‘Mathematica’, 1961]

Charles & Ray Eames: Mathematica: discrete >< continuous

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[LEFT]: DISCRETE: The left side of the egg, and the music box, vary in clearly defined steps.  The spots froming the egg are either black or white.  The music from the music box jumps from one note to another with nothing in between.  Variations of this type are called ‘discontinuous’.  In a discrete process, there is a jump between one state and the next.  Ordinary decimals form a discrete sequence, because the change from one to the next is at least one decimal digit.  A computer based on the rules of decimal calculation is called a digital computor.

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[RIGHT]: The right side of the egg, and the slide trombone, vary in a continuous, uninterrupted gradation.  The tones in the photograph of the egg blend smoothly from one to the other.  The trombone can slide from one note to another.  Variations of this type are called ‘continuous’.  In a continuous process, one state merges imperceptibly into the next.  Some continuous processes are analogous to others, because the underlying mathematics is the same.  A computing device based on such an analogy is called an analogy is called an analog computor.

[text by from the exhibition ‘Mathematica’, by Charles and Ray Eames, 1961]

 

[reinterpretation of collage by Charles and Ray Eames, for the exhibition ‘Mathematica’, 1961]