On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: fifteen
[ by Charles Cameron — surprise, surprise — this isn’t the #15 I expected and predicted ]
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In Two eminently watchable TV series by Hugo Blick I looked at narrative artistry as an approach to understanding complex problems — and I do mean complex, the Israeli-Palestinian and Hutu-Tutsi errh, situations..
Here, we consider artistry of another sort — polyphonic, graphical, yet still clearly artistic in execution ..
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Here’s a drawing from Victor Papanek‘s Notebook — and very notebook it is — courtesy Roelof Pieters:
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Compare the above with this example of Mark Lombardi‘s fine art “conspiracy” graphs from his book, Global Networks:
We’re getting positively calligraphic here, and approaching the scope of one of those Song dynasty scroll paintings that feature (am I right? memory, imagination!) a hermit disappearing into his cave in some obscure not quite corner of the scroll, while thunder wreaks havoc on armies by a river in almost center field..
Speaking of which..
Ah, but we’re straggling away from our topic: On the felicities of graph-based game-board design. The point is that the arts have many inventive ways to approach complexity.
I mean, we could start with Hamlet..
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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 On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: nine On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: ten On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: eleven On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: twelve On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: thirteen On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: fourteen
January 31st, 2019 at 2:48 am
Yes! The hermit is here! The hermit is here! — I have been musing about the hermit in the design of things recently. And these designs are marvelous, Charles. Thank you!