Olympic Rings 2012

Photograph Quiz:

Photo no. 92:- What is this creative art piece called? Who created it? What has it to do with my trudging?

Dear Blog,

     As you can see from my little quiz, the creator of this artistic work liked his squares. [If you are really clever Blog, you will know that they are cubes!! How come did I hear you cry????] Did you notice that there is a square inside a square, the inner square being surrounded by four identical trapezia. [trapeziums to you Blog] Or, if you want to look at it in another way, there is a square outside a square, the outer square surrounding four identical trapezia. [trapeziums to you Blog] Whatever.

Now the big question is …. Was the creator of this artistic work a friend of Schlegel or just a passing acquaintance??? And the second even bigger question is …. Has the creator of this artistic work read my letter to you about Olympic Rings???? Let’s face it, all this poor artist has managed to do is use a couple of colours and just used four different squares to create a mathematical group ….. making the assumption that he knew that he was creating a group? Bit boring???? Bit of a boring picture really?? Yes Blog … think about it. Four squares four times …..

 Try to keep awake Blog

Just look at how the square arrangement moves diagonally (say). Not much excitement there then??? If you had shown him my master piece on Olympic Rings Blog, he would have realised that he could have used his two colours in the same way as the Olympic Rings intersect, for ‘colour’ read ‘intersect’.  …. Are you getting excited Blog, starting to salivate at the possibility of witnessing genius at work yet  again??? For an intersect of a colour on the Olympic flag being on top, assume a black trapezium, and for an intersect of a colour on the Olympic Flag being underneath assume a white trapezium.  

Wake up, Blog. Bear with me.

‘Using binary, a ‘1’ to indicate a crossing over and a ‘0’ for a crossing under for each intersection, there being eight intersections in each pattern of rings …’ but now we only have four trapezia instead of those eight intersections so taken in order travelling clockwise starting on the left vertical, we only have to consider a black trapezium or a white trapezium. Suddenly this boring picture is springing into life, whato Blog? The ‘crossing over [on top]’ that is ‘1’, being black and the ‘crossing under [underneath]’ that is ‘0’, being white. So the total possibility in binary is

1111

1010

1100

1011

1101

1000

1110

1001

0110

0001

0111

0010

0100

0011

0101

0000

Which when inserted into the pop picture, is much more interesting, isn’t Mr Artist Man???

So, without wishing to send you completely to sleep, Blog, or to give you nightmares, ….. Blog. BLOG. BLOG.BLOG. BLOG. Come back here. This is interesting. Sit down, shut up and pay attention. Listen and you might learn something.

When I told you about the Olympic Flag Blog, I only illustrated the exciting bit on  intersections, I did not tell you about the possibly arrangement of colours ….. ‘cos it would have taken up too much space in my letter to you. Similarly if we use the Olympic colours in one square

Viz:-

and tried to consider the arrangement of colours, it would take up too much space in my letter to you Blog. Something of a challenge for you to do Blog??? I wonder if this artist chappie knew he was copying the Olympic Flag when this chappessie [nearly gave you a clue there Blog!!!] did his [her] pop picture. Better watch out mateyboy [mateygirlie], because the Olympic Committee will be after you for breach of copyright. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!!

Wait ‘til the Olympic Committee see my t-shirt, they will go apoplectic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 Colin

PS I reckon I can sell my t-shirts and earn a fortune for the charity for disable children,  Tiny Tims Children’s Centre … interested in buying one Blog??????????????