On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: nine

October 9th, 2016 by Charles Cameron

Bill, who is himself the author of Beethoven’s Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture, notes “Jamie loves music, and his dad is a rock-and-roll drummer, so’s his older brother Nick, I believe.” And here’s the clincher — he then asks:

In what way are these drawings like drum beats?

So that’s two examples of novel visual representations of musical pattern in just two days, earlier this week.

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Enough for now — onwards to On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: ten — a long, fascinating post IMO, long enough that I’m glad this is a Sunday.

Earlier in this series:

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: preliminaries

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: two dazzlers

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: three

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: four

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: five

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: six

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: seven

  • On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: eight

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    1. Grurray:

      October 10th, 2016 at 2:51 pm

      That Jimi Hendrix graph reminds me of this concert poster from a show he did in Germany:
      https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/5b/07/c7/5b07c70422e2b321b57c68274ced4884.jpg
      That perm he wore really drove the kids crazy, I guess.
      It’s funny that the other graphs seem so oddly fitting also.
      Rock Me Baby looks like the basic blues scaffolding of Red House with the cluster in the middle just emerging, but more ordered and deferential.
      The original members of Pink Floyd were all architecture students, and it’s been said that training in structures shaped how they constructed their songs. It shows in that graph.
      Crossroads being about the interaction of heaven- first as he “asked the Lord above” – then the present middle that is empty and abandoned as “everybody passed me by” – until finally descent to the bottom where he implores, “believe I’m sinking down.”

    2. Charles Cameron:

      October 10th, 2016 at 7:57 pm

      Said poster:
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      Thanks, Grurray!

    3. Grurray:

      October 10th, 2016 at 9:20 pm

      Speaking of Königsberg, you probably heard Russia just deployed short range missiles there capable of attacking Poland, in violation of the 1987 INF treaty. This is to deter NATO missile defenses in Poland and counter new combat battalions permanently stationed in the Baltics. Maybe we should be graphing out all the recent ‘tit-for-tat’ going on in Eastern Europe.