Angle/quotes/2/23/2024

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In developing the image, some artists focus on the shapes created by the interplay of light and dark values on the surfaces of the body.
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Another approach is to loosely construct the body out of geometric shapes, e.g., a sphere for the cranium, a cylinder for the torso, etc. Then refine those shapes to more closely resemble the human form.

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You draw with your finger or the mouse. sketchometry then converts your sketches into geometrical constructions that can be dragged and manipulated.
sketchometry is free of charge and can be used both at school and at home.

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The oldest human marking found to date is an abstract zigzag pattern engraved on a shell, created by an early hominin, Homo erectus, half a million years ago in Java, Indonesia [1]. The earliest known drawing from our own species, Homo sapiens, is also abstract: a crisscross pattern engraved on ochre around 73,000 years ago from Blombos cave, South Africa [2]. This abstract drawing predates by about 30,000 years the earliest known figurative painting, a hunting scene discovered in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia [3]. These findings show that, from our earliest beginnings, humans have produced patterned abstract designs. Such designs can be found across cultures, ages, and media: in the Girih patterns used in Islamic art and architecture, in the textiles woven by the Incas, in the decoration of Celtic jewellery, in Chaco Canyon’s ceramics, in Maasai shields, or in modern quilt, wallpaper, or fabric designs.

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The Greeks derived their name for an angle from the word "gōnia" (γωνία) in their language, which means "corner" or "angle." The term "gōnia" was used to describe the meeting point of two lines or the space between them that formed an angle.Jul 1, 2023

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The word angle comes from the Latin word angulus, meaning "corner". Cognate words include the Greek ἀγκύλος (ankylοs) meaning "crooked, curved" and the English word "ankle". Both are connected with the Proto-Indo-European root *ank-, meaning "to bend" or "bow".

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Another piece of evidence arises from developmental data. Preschoolers and even infants have been shown to possess sophisticated intuitions of space (Hermer and Spelke, 1994, Landau et al., 1981, Newcombe et al., 2005), spatial sequences (Amalric et al., 2017), and mirror symmetry (Bornstein et al., 1978). Indeed, preschoolers’ drawings already show a tendency to represent abstract properties of objects rather than the object itself. Although they look primitive, drawings of a house as a triangle on top of a square, or a person as a stick figure with a round head, suggest a remarkable capacity for abstracting away from the actual shape and attending to its principal axes, at the expense of realism. Numerous tests leverage this geometric competence to assess a child’s cognitive development by counting the number of correct or incorrect abstract properties, for instance when asked to draw a person (Goodenough, 1926, Harris, 1963, Long et al., 2019, Prewett et al., 1988, Reynolds and Hickman, 2004). There is some evidence, however limited, that this ability may be specifically human: when given pencils or a tablet computer, other non-human primates do not draw any abstract shapes or recognizable figures, but mostly generate shapeless scribbles (Saito et al., 2014, Tanaka et al., 2003).

A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes,
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Even though they look and sound very similar, even though they are commonly misspelled or confused in English, “flush out” and “flesh out” start from different concepts and, consequently, define different actions. The first expression refers to forcefully making an animal or a person get out from where they were hiding, while the second is used with the meaning of completing, fulfilling or adding up more important elements to something.

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Notes: we make up drawings, we make up words-by combining things we know...angleangle...must be a word for that...invent...create...that little drawing geometry program is gold...one could trace a figure, then translate it into geometric shapes...that's what artists are trained to do...it's one trick, crib, of many to make drawings-translate-TranslateGeometry...for savant artists, drawings just come out all of a piece, or some such...and we are all savants as infants...it may well be the best time for schooling is our earliest years!...first is Geometry-for tomorrowmorrow...

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