{"id":52711,"date":"2016-10-09T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52711"},"modified":"2016-10-09T17:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T17:00:20","slug":"on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52711","title":{"rendered":"On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; if the territory is graphical, so&#8217;s the map ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Terrain, with its named places and transportation links between them, is graphical, as illustrated in this map:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IS?src=hash\">#IS<\/a> info graph claims 53 suicide attacks for Sept 2016 in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash\">#Syria<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iraq?src=hash\">#Iraq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/niCVar6ArW\">pic.twitter.com\/niCVar6ArW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jasmine Opperman (@Jasminechic00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jasminechic00\/status\/784053652168269824\">October 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes me wonder how often graph theory (of the sort that gives us the <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/KoenigsbergBridgeProblem.html\">K\u00f6nigsberg Bridge Problem<\/a>, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2014\/03\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-preliminaries\/\">first post in this series<\/a>) is applied to troop movements &#8212; as it often is to public transportation (see the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52717\">tenth post<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>My next example of the use of a <strong>node-and-edge graphical design<\/strong> both puzzles and intrigues me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Development Directions is out! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R4I9mSZaQE\">https:\/\/t.co\/R4I9mSZaQE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FB?src=hash\">#FB<\/a> Stories via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mamaphlls\">@mamaphlls<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PublicSphereWB\">@PublicSphereWB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/clarissa_panama\">@clarissa_panama<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/poverty?src=hash\">#poverty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/aid?src=hash\">#aid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Razarumi\/status\/784038978068578304\">October 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It puzzles me, because I can&#8217;t quitec grasp what <strong>Raza Rumi<\/strong> &#8212; a very bright fellow &#8212; is up to in choosing this particular illustration. And it intrigues me, because once on a vision quest I glimpsed an outstretched eagle&#8217;s or hawk&#8217;s wing, with a similar graphical overlay of its structural essence. It&#8217;s a sight I&#8217;ve never forgotten, an exquisite linking of the real and abstract worlds, and one that I&#8217;m sadly ill-equipped to reproduce visually myself. Words don&#8217;t do it justice.<\/p>\n<p>** <\/p>\n<p>My third example, as you can see, is taken from a learned paper describing the use of graphs to illustrate musical compositions according to a strictly defined protocol:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;On the Modeling of Musical Solos as Complex Networks\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/facemelter?src=hash\">#facemelter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rockon?src=hash\">#rockon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RhMQR8I1vD\">https:\/\/t.co\/RhMQR8I1vD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/swnHg4XPq8\">pic.twitter.com\/swnHg4XPq8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Danforth (@ChrisDanforth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisDanforth\/status\/783279507901861888\">October 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What interests me here &#8212; aside from the fact that any of these digrams could be used as a board in a sufficiently complex <strong>HipBone<\/strong> or <strong>Sembl<\/strong> game &#8212; is that I ran across this particular paper within 24 hours of reading m&#8217;friend <strong>Bill Benzon<\/strong>&#8216;s account of his friend <strong>Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/strong> and his son <strong>Jamie<\/strong>, introduced in this tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/downssyndrome?src=hash\">#downssyndrome<\/a> Aesthetic investigations of a young man with Down syndrome. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CqTg88arVV\">https:\/\/t.co\/CqTg88arVV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Benzon (@bbenzon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbenzon\/status\/784032571864846336\">October 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" chlarset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bill&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/new-savanna.blogspot.com\/2016\/10\/jamies-investigations-part-1-emergence.html\">Jamie\u2019s Investigations, Part 1: Emergence<\/a> to which his tweet refers us &#8212; is illustrated thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Benzon-Jamie-Berube-01.jpg\" alt=\"benzon-jamie-berube-01\" width=\"354\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Benzon-Jamie-Berube-01.jpg 354w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Benzon-Jamie-Berube-01-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9, we read, has recently published a book about Jamie, who has Down&#8217;s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Jamie-Knows-Exceptional-Child\/dp\/0807019313\">Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up<\/a>, and it contains a series of Jamie&#8217;s drawings, of which this is one example. <\/p>\n<p>Bill, who is himself the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beethovens-Anvil-Music-Mind-Culture\/dp\/0465015441\">Beethoven&#8217;s Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture<\/a>, notes &#8220;Jamie loves music, and his dad is a rock-and-roll drummer, so\u2019s his older brother Nick, I believe.&#8221; And here&#8217;s the clincher &#8212; he then asks: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In what way are these drawings like drum beats?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that&#8217;s two examples of <strong>novel visual representations of musical pattern<\/strong> in just two days, earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Enough for now &#8212; onwards to <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52717\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: ten<\/a> &#8212; a long, fascinating post IMO, long enough that I&#8217;m glad this is a <strong>Sunday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier in this series:<\/strong><\/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>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50558\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: eight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; if the territory is graphical, so&#8217;s the map ] . Terrain, with its named places and transportation links between them, is graphical, as illustrated in this map: #IS info graph claims 53 suicide attacks for Sept 2016 in #Syria and #Iraq pic.twitter.com\/niCVar6ArW &mdash; Jasmine Opperman (@Jasminechic00) October 6, 2016 It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,662,526,627,1151,859,529,644,625,624,45,1078,1047,655,480,678,286,440,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-benzon","category-blog-friends","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-doubletweets","category-form","category-games","category-graphical-thinking","category-hipbone-analysis","category-hipbone-games","category-iraq","category-is","category-isis","category-mathematics","category-music","category-sembl","category-series","category-syria","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52711"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52785,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52711\/revisions\/52785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}