Diagonals of an ellipse

I have been watching Norman Wildberger’s videos on all things mathematics for about 10 years. To say that I have learned a lot is the understatement of the decade. His most recent video is a recorded talk from July this year titled “How Chromogeometry transcends Klein’s Erlangen Program for Planar Geometries”. It is fascinating throughoutContinue reading “Diagonals of an ellipse”

Virtual furniture at the right scale

Our imagination is a powerful cognitive skill. When I walked into the living room of my new apartment, I experienced a rectangular empty space with a dusty concrete floor and hollow sounding acoustics. But in my mind I was already furnishing and decorating. I imagined a blue carpet on the floor, the walls lined with bookcases, a largeContinue reading “Virtual furniture at the right scale”

Upgrading vision system OVS-0

I am right-eyed. A phenomenon also called “master eye” or “ocular dominance”. So my left eye is the lazy one. And I don’t think it was properly treated when I was growing up. What I remember is that I saw double while reading: two images floating on top of each other. I could not fuse the two images into oneContinue reading “Upgrading vision system OVS-0”