Geometric Literature

giovedì 13 dicembre 2012

Shapes of poetry

Here is a nice site that can turn your writing texts into shapes, you can have spirals, waves, mazes and banners, here are some examples:

http://www.festisite.com/text-layout/#2,0

What is Phylotaxis?
The term Phyllotaxis refers to the patterns on plants formed by the arrangement of repeated biological units. In nearly all cases, the Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio occur in these arrangements. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature. This image of a plant is an example of Phylotaxis in nature

Phylotaxis is also a new site, we read in the description that it is an exploration of the space where science meets culture. If you want a completely new way to choose and read articles visit the site, you will find lots of "Seeds"representing the perfect synthesis of science and culture, agitate them and then pick a seed and ......Have a good read!

Phylotaxis

Shaping Emotions

How many emotions do you have? This and other answers in this interesting article on the web. Here is the link

Classification of Emotions

Can you give a shape to your emotions?

How would you represent JOY?

What about SURPRISE?

And TERROR?

giovedì 6 settembre 2012

Philosophy in shapes

Philosophy in geometrical shapes

Is it possible to explain philosophical concepts through geometrical shapes? According to a famous designer named Genis Carreras it is. Visit the site to know more.http://www.geniscarreras.com/philosophy.html

Literary genres

A simple map created by E. La Torre on the tool http://www.text2mindmap.com/

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http://faithbibleministries.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/figures-of-speech-a-brief-introduction/

IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-oxymoron/

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-hyperbole/

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-metaphor/

http://tx.english-ch.com/teacher/lyn/level-b/figures-of-speech-simile/

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Playing Games

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venerdì 24 agosto 2012

The Big Triangle (COMICS)

In Scott McCloud’s book "Understanding Comics" you will find his observations about what comics are and as we are interested in shapes to convey meanings and ideas here is the author's BIG TRIANGLE -
The link is a ppt with the author's explanations.