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 throughout but my interest was piqued when at 25:13 he starts talking about ellipses.

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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 large table on the far end, and a comfortable couch near the window.Continue 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 one “percept” of the book in front of me. I could accomplish that fusion easily for normal objects that were further away than the words on a page at arm’s length.

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