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How to Draw Three People in a Botanical Garden

AARON is a program designed to investigate the cognitive principles underlying visual representation. Under continuous development for fifteen years, it is now able autonomously to make “freehand” drawings of people in garden-like settings. This has required a complex interplay between two bodies of knowledge: objectspecific knowledge of how people are constructed and how they move, together wi...

The Garden of the Forking Worlds

On July 9, 1985, by happenstance, I exchanged a few words with Jorge Luis Borges. It was the morning after my wedding and before taking off to our honeymoon, my wife and I went to greet my parents who had come from Tucumán to Buenos Aires, and were staying at the Hotel Dorá, on Maipú Street. My mother grabbed me by my arm and took me to the dining room. All the tables were empty, except for one...

Trees, forests and jungles: a botanical garden for cluster expansions

Combinatoric formulas for cluster expansions have been improved many times over the years. Here we develop some new combinatoric proofs and extensions of the tree formulas of Brydges and Kennedy, and test them on a series of pedagogical examples.

Botanical Garden of Irreducible Automorphisms of Free Groups

We give a classification of iwip outer automorphisms of the free group, by discussing the properties of their attracting and repelling trees.