This is interesting. I very much love your go-at-it-with-a-clean-slate manner. I deeply respect that in anyone in any discipline or endeavor. Buckminster Fuller comes to mind. I'm an illustrator who is far more right-brained than left, and respect math in that way. (So, Fuller's writing in his works strikes me as much as poetry as everything else it is.) I came to math from learning to draft in perspective, thanks to Howard J. Ashley's book, 'Accurate Perspective Simplified'. ex: http://zuma.vip.warped.com/acs/acs-p27.jpg That book was my only exposure to trigonometry in any formal sense.
Reading here -Well, I still have yet to consume and digest it all -touches on many things I could go on about, fontmaking in the least. (Recently, and still, I have yet to fully commit myself to leaving hand lettering behind and go full on with truetype fonts. I tried making my own at http://yourfont.com but found that was just a learning endeavor and would need to do it again, perhaps several times, before I got anything usable.)
I've explored my inner geek some years quite well but nowhere near your level. I love and miss 16 bit computers. With the advent of 32 bit computers and their differences, plus needing to focus on my central art and writing endeavors, I've left that behind sadly. As has so many. I'm glad to see someone like yourself who hasn't.
I suspect my works and their perspective couldn't be further from your interests, deeply rooted in psychedelia and psychotropic modes of cognitive experiences and works as they are, so this will likely be the longest comment I may ever make here. I'm definitely adding you though, and with great respect and encouragement.
My only direct comment on the circular approach is that it brings Fuller's spherical trigonometry to mind, that he derived to solve what I believe may have been a similar problem. I could be wildly wrong though, ignorant as I am. -The Golden Section too comes to mind, but hardly applicably.
I have to get back to work but in the future will be backreading in your LJ with relish, I am sure.
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This is interesting. I very much love your go-at-it-with-a-clean-slate manner. I deeply respect that in anyone in any discipline or endeavor.
Buckminster Fuller comes to mind.
I'm an illustrator who is far more right-brained than left, and respect math in that way. (So, Fuller's writing in his works strikes me as much as poetry as everything else it is.) I came to math from learning to draft in perspective, thanks to Howard J. Ashley's book, 'Accurate Perspective Simplified'. ex:
http://zuma.vip.warped.com/acs/acs-p27.jpg
That book was my only exposure to trigonometry in any formal sense.
Reading here -Well, I still have yet to consume and digest it all -touches on many things I could go on about, fontmaking in the least. (Recently, and still, I have yet to fully commit myself to leaving hand lettering behind and go full on with truetype fonts. I tried making my own at http://yourfont.com but found that was just a learning endeavor and would need to do it again, perhaps several times, before I got anything usable.)
I've explored my inner geek some years quite well but nowhere near your level. I love and miss 16 bit computers. With the advent of 32 bit computers and their differences, plus needing to focus on my central art and writing endeavors, I've left that behind sadly. As has so many. I'm glad to see someone like yourself who hasn't.
I suspect my works and their perspective couldn't be further from your interests, deeply rooted in psychedelia and psychotropic modes of cognitive experiences and works as they are, so this will likely be the longest comment I may ever make here. I'm definitely adding you though, and with great respect and encouragement.
My only direct comment on the circular approach is that it brings Fuller's spherical trigonometry to mind, that he derived to solve what I believe may have been a similar problem. I could be wildly wrong though, ignorant as I am. -The Golden Section too comes to mind, but hardly applicably.
I have to get back to work but in the future will be backreading in your LJ with relish, I am sure.
best regards
John Farwell
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma