{"id":50558,"date":"2016-06-07T19:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50558"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:49:25","slug":"on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50558","title":{"rendered":"On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; omega worms in science and scripture ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>As regular readers know, I am interested in <strong>Omega <\/strong>&#8212; the End, in &#8220;alpha and omega&#8221; terms &#8212; so I was naturally intrigued by this tweet, with <strong>Adam Elkus<\/strong> kindly put in my twitter feed and those of others who follow him:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you are a worm scientist and know what a &quot;omega turn&quot; is, please help fill out our survey! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a0JggSHEiH\">https:\/\/t.co\/a0JggSHEiH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OpenWorm (@OpenWorm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenWorm\/status\/740222237458989060\">June 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a &#8220;worm scientist&#8221; but wanted to know what an <strong>omega turn<\/strong> is, so I browsed around a bit and found this diagram: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/journal.pbio_.1001529.g007.png\" alt=\"journal.pbio.1001529.g007\" width=\"530\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/journal.pbio_.1001529.g007.png 530w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/journal.pbio_.1001529.g007-300x232.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><br \/>\nDonnelly et al, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1001529\">Monoaminergic Orchestration of Motor Programs in a Complex C. elegans Behavior<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Now please don&#8217;t imagine I know what that means to a worm scientist &#8212; I was expecting something more like the worm in the lowest section of thIs <strong>Beatus Apocalyps<\/strong>e:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/B_Facundus_230v-1.jpg\" alt=\"B_Facundus_230v\" width=\"438\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/B_Facundus_230v-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/B_Facundus_230v-1-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or maybe this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Beatus-worm-turns.jpg\" alt=\"Beatus worm turns\" width=\"442\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Beatus-worm-turns.jpg 442w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Beatus-worm-turns-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from a different <strong>Beatus <\/strong>manuscript, where it appears the worm has turned quite a few times.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>In the unlikely event that I should attempt a translation of <strong>St John<\/strong>&#8216;s revelatory vision on the Isle of Patmos into science fiction, be assured that I shall include a reference to that image among my illustrations, with a footnote perhaps, pointing to Mark 9.48:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, however, my appreciation for all things apocalyptic must give way to another interest of mine, that of the pervasive use of [node and edge] graphs in our contemporary world. Here again is the central column of that image: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/journal.pbio_.1001529.g007-middle-1.png\" alt=\"journal.pbio.1001529.g007-middle\" width=\"438\" height=\"717\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/journal.pbio_.1001529.g007-middle-1.png 438w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/journal.pbio_.1001529.g007-middle-1-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It interests me here as yet another illustration of the degree to which <strong>graphs serve as a fundamental substrate of our understanding of the world<\/strong> &#8212; and hence my continuing interest in their use in <strong>game board design<\/strong> &#8212; both of which I&#8217;ve been exploring in other posts in this series:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2014\/03\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-preliminaries\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: preliminaries<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2014\/03\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-two-dazzlers\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: two dazzlers<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2015\/08\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-three\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: three<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2015\/09\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-four\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: four<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47254\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: five<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50254\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: six<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50508\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: seven<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>After the glamour of <strong>Beatus<\/strong> manuscripts and <strong>PLOS <\/strong>worm diagrams, it may seem almost a let down to turn to <strong>irregular polyhedra <\/strong>&#8212; but the move from two-dimensional graphs to their three-dimensional cousins is a short one, and since we live in what at least appears to be a (spatially) three-dimensional world, one which should also be considered in terms of game board and concept-modelling design.<\/p>\n<p>The following illustration &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/irregular_polyhedron3.png\" alt=\"irregular_polyhedron3\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/irregular_polyhedron3.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/irregular_polyhedron3-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; and accompanying video, from <strong>Filip Visnjic<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/openframeworks\/irregular-polyhedron-study-1-vertex-edge-and-volume\/\">Irregular Polyhedron Study #1 \u2013 Vertex, edge and volume<\/a>, may accordingly be of interest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120787464\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/120787464\">Irregular Polyhedron Study #1<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/bgstaal\">Bj&oslash;rn Gunnar Staal<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; omega worms in science and scripture ] . 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