Unsquare Dance Encore
So, from the previous offering based on Brubeck's jazz melody, the question was asked, what is the total number of squares in the image above. The suggested total was 30 squares. One is the total diagram, 16 small ones, 9 composed of four adjacent small squares, and 4 composed of nine adjacent small squares. With overlap of course.
But some people claim that the diagram contains 25 more squares for a total of 55.
Where do they see the extra squares? Here is their story.
The spaces between the small squares, best seen in the diagram as illuminated lines dividing the image in half both vertically and horizontally tell the story.
Even if the lines that separate each of the squares are only microns thick, one millionth of a meter, where they intersect and where they connect with the boundary of the overall diagram, they do form microscopic squares.
Fantastic, you might think, yes. Logical, you must think, yes.
What we see in life is a function of what we have trained ourselves to see.
Ask a professional arborist about your favorite wood lot and you will get a detailed description of everything from the ground cover, to the spacing and variety of hard and soft wood trees, right up to the tree canopy as well as, no doubt, the interdependence among all of the flora living there. Details
Ask a trained geologist about an oft visited outcropping of rock and a story of the veins and seams that streak the surface of the rock as well as the rock's origins, igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic will unfold. Details.
Details add dimension to life's experiences.
And details derive from the doing. Get out to your "there" and focus on the details.
Become a Michael Campbell, the main character in the novel, CAPISTRANO. Fix your sights on a new horizon, a personal goal, and revel in the process of adding detail to desire.
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