Begin discussing materiality of strings
Think of a worm made of strings
A space time worm that leaves a space trace
Each string is a loop that is a time point
Fused loops
Loops are like rubber bands not chains
Imagine colour gradation of loops into past and future away from current time point loop
Elementary parallelism: a formal decomposition, linear elements following eachother like parallels and distorting the object. The object is completely stretched out, as if elastic. The lines follow eachother in parallels, while changing subtly to form movement, or the form of the object in question.
[20]: save_nets(P, "figs/36-cell-hatch", force=True, fmt="png", hatch=True, dpi=600)
v_36cell = [
(1, 0, 0, 0),
(0, 0, 1, 0),
(0, -1, 0, 0),
(0, 0, 0, -1),
(1, 1, 0, 0),
(-1, -1, 0, 0),
(0, 1, 0, 0),
(-1, 0, 0, 0),
(0, 0, 1, 1),
(0, 0, 0, 1),
(0, 0, -1, -1),
(0, 0, -1, 0) ]
How did your collaboration with the Fano team at Imperial College come about? I was in Imperial College March 2007, for a meeting with someone in Material Sciences (concerning aluminium) and while I was waiting, I started reading the Imperial College newsletter.