http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.10.002 0198-9715/ 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). ⇑ Corresponding author at: Spatial Information laboratory, Department of Spatial Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam, De Boe...

This article provides the original perspective on esotericism. Two author distinguishes between two polar directions of esotericism – "transcendental" and "latent" (mental); as well introduces postulates characteristic to first direction that in previous research received name "classical". The discusses what binds philosophy, religion, art; outlines common aspects these fields knowled...

A short, inductive proof is presented of the fact that a Hex board cannot be colored such that winning conditions are satisfied for both players. It is well known that the game of Hex, independently invented by Piet Hein and John Nash, always has a winner. In it, two players, Black and White, attempt to connect opposite sides—East and West or North and South—of a parallelogram tiled with hexago...

Overview. The game of Hex , invented independently by Piet Hein in 1942 and John Nash in 1948 [9], has two players who take turns placing stones of their respective colors on the hexagons of a rhombus-shaped hexagonal grid (see Figure 1). A player wins by completing a path connecting the two opposite sides of his or her color. Although it is easy to show that player I has a winning strategy, it...

Biographical notes: Piet Kommers is an Associate Professor at the University of Twente at the Department of Media, Communication and Organization. He chairs the IADIS conferences and the e-society conference and web-based communities conference in particular. In his work for UNESCO, he brings forward the blend between the nature and the culture of learning. He distinguishes the ‘new’ media as c...

Art Assessment: Strongly Like & Like 34 76%° 26% * Indifferent 46 52% 26% * Strongly Dislike & Dislike 20 45% 35% Note: 0Indicates statistical significance at the 0.05 level according to binomial test. A chi-square test was also performed for the contingency table relating preference and identification for all Ss, and, as might be expected from the preceding, preference and identification were ...

Mind is an extremely complex and important subject in Buddhism in general and in esoteric Buddhism in particular. It is partly due to the fact that Buddhism envisions liberation as based on the acquisition of a special wisdom, that is, a different cognitive approach toward reality. Such new cognitive approach is called in the Japanese tradition satori or kakugo, usually rendered in English as “...

Acknowledgments A Ph.D. thesis is the product of several years of work and, therefore, influenced by a lot of people. Here I would like to thank all of you who contributed, in one way or another, to me being able to finish this work. The following people deserve a special mention. First of all I thank Marc Uetz for the supervision during this trajectory. Starting with the final project of my ma...

We are proposing MOnDrianULOR, a system capable of producing visual forms based on the works of Swiss architect Le Corbusier and Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. The system produces visual forms that employ a rectangular harmonic division of the plane based on Le Corbusier’s Modulor principles and a coloring scheme that may use only primary colors so as to produce the strongest visual effect, as Mon...

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