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Engaging The Paradoxical: Zeno's Paradoxes In Three Works Of Interactive Fiction, Michael Z. Spivey Jan 2020

Engaging The Paradoxical: Zeno's Paradoxes In Three Works Of Interactive Fiction, Michael Z. Spivey

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

For over two millennia thinkers have wrestled with Zeno's paradoxes on space, time, motion, and the nature of infinity. In this article we compare and contrast representations of Zeno's paradoxes in three works of interactive fiction, Beyond Zork, The Chinese Room, and A Beauty Cold and Austere. Each of these works incorporates one of Zeno's paradoxes as part of a puzzle that the player must solve in order to advance and ultimately complete the story. As such, the reader must engage more deeply with the paradoxes than he or she would in a static work of fiction. …


Elements Of Art, Mike Doyle Dec 2017

Elements Of Art, Mike Doyle

The STEAM Journal

Through these paintings and my writing I share how elements of art and science overlap in the strokes of paint that create the perceptions of something familiar in our minds.


Illumination And Geometry In Islamic Art, Salma Marani Jul 1997

Illumination And Geometry In Islamic Art, Salma Marani

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


See-Duction: How Scientists And Artists Are Creating A Third Way Of Knowing, Howard Levine Jul 1997

See-Duction: How Scientists And Artists Are Creating A Third Way Of Knowing, Howard Levine

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.


Tilings In Art And Science, James E, Hall Oct 1995

Tilings In Art And Science, James E, Hall

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.