Pythagorean Palaces: Mathemagicians, number-forms, and Architectura Imaginalis with Emily Moyer
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The Cartesian Coordinate System and Its Origins
The Cartesian coordinate system is most commonly used in computer graphics, computer aided design and geometry related data. The process goes like this from the ether to the mind, to verbal expression, to a medium, so paper or a program or a small model,. Architects would build small models for a reason, to the actual manifestation or the building in the case of architecture. Architecture is an actual field of study with people who have actually written books about this concept. I'll tell you one. So again, they were practicing divination as architects back then; it's very interesting.
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