Well, most of what you do flies right over my head! :D Though I do recall tesseracts from A Wrinkle in Time. Heh.
Also, math is so NOT my strong suit that I just have to nod appreciatively when you say "a slope of tan(π/8)" and pretend I didn't actually get all the way to some form of college-level calculus. How I managed, that, I'll never really know and it seemed to have all been lost along the way since then.
I'm impressed with your "short version" - it sounds quite complicated, or at least very specialized! I'm embarrassed to admit that I wondered if there was a "plug-and-play" graphic image maker. The fact that much work went into making the image is the reason I'd give attribution/credit - though the result is public domain, getting to the result required your expertise, time, brainpower, etc...
Meanwhile...
Hmm, "an elemental symbolic system where there are sixteen symbols, each with some of the four elements (fire, air, water, and earth) are either present or not present." Now that's interesting!
I'm working with 25 combinations because Spirit is regarded as one "elemental" component in the modern Ogham tradition. The schematic I'm trying to discover or locate (if there is one) has to arise out of some of the pairings' specific qualities. This schematic might not be possible given what I know so far about the ways the elements combine, but that's essentially what I've been gnawing on for awhile now. Also trying to see links and disjunctures, transitions and relations between the 25.
I may end up needing to at least dip into the descriptive text on geomancy, just to see how elements and their combinations are conceived. While some of that is likely to be non-Druidical in nature (and thus different from my Ogham-derived system), there's probably some "genetic" similarity (both coming from Western occultism) that might be useful to explore.
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Date: 2020-10-11 08:35 pm (UTC)Well, most of what you do flies right over my head! :D Though I do recall tesseracts from A Wrinkle in Time. Heh.
Also, math is so NOT my strong suit that I just have to nod appreciatively when you say "a slope of tan(π/8)" and pretend I didn't actually get all the way to some form of college-level calculus. How I managed, that, I'll never really know and it seemed to have all been lost along the way since then.
I'm impressed with your "short version" - it sounds quite complicated, or at least very specialized! I'm embarrassed to admit that I wondered if there was a "plug-and-play" graphic image maker. The fact that much work went into making the image is the reason I'd give attribution/credit - though the result is public domain, getting to the result required your expertise, time, brainpower, etc...
Meanwhile...
Hmm, "an elemental symbolic system where there are sixteen symbols, each with some of the four elements (fire, air, water, and earth) are either present or not present." Now that's interesting!
I'm working with 25 combinations because Spirit is regarded as one "elemental" component in the modern Ogham tradition. The schematic I'm trying to discover or locate (if there is one) has to arise out of some of the pairings' specific qualities. This schematic might not be possible given what I know so far about the ways the elements combine, but that's essentially what I've been gnawing on for awhile now. Also trying to see links and disjunctures, transitions and relations between the 25.
I may end up needing to at least dip into the descriptive text on geomancy, just to see how elements and their combinations are conceived. While some of that is likely to be non-Druidical in nature (and thus different from my Ogham-derived system), there's probably some "genetic" similarity (both coming from Western occultism) that might be useful to explore.