Sunday, November 9, 2008

Shape shifter


So I was just thinking that "isn't it weird that the iris and pupil are round?"
Well, I guess that's more of a query than mere thought. Really though, they're basically circles, and I find that, in general, naturally occurring geometric shapes are pretty rare.
Then I was thinking that no Iris is perfectly circular (some pain-in-the-neck philosophers would even argue the concept of circular), so really it's not a circle. In the same vein you could be like "hey rob. Isn't the human shape just the same. If I show a little man figure, you know what it is, and the degree to which it resembles the actual theoretical human form is just semantics, because no-one, and every-one does (resemble the human form that is)." Then I was like, wouldn't it follow then that the human form is a geometric shape? But then, actual geometric shapes have that whole mathematical equation thing going for them.
Then I thought about water droplets, snowflakes, ferns, pine-cones, planetary bodies and honeycombs.
There's probably more.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Real GDP




Well the results of the doodle poll are in. It seems parallel lines, spirals and checker boards are the standard. There is something to be said for freakish hands though.