Subliminal Ryoanji
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Don’t miss this wonderful reading of one of the great gardens of the world, the Zen rock garden of Ryoanji.
“Hidden tree” the secret of Zen garden
Emma Young, New Scientist
The unknown designer left no explanation for the layout of the garden, thought to be created shortly after 1499, during a period of innovation in the visual arts in Japan.
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Posted to Architecture • 2002.09.26 (Thu) • 10:30
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Posted by dsandler 2002.09.27, 02:35
This really is an interesting discovery; it is reminiscent of ancient Greek use of the golden ratio in architecture. (The medial section, and its cousin, the Voronoi diagram, happen to be valuable tools in the field of path planning, which involves algorithms that help compute a navigable path (example: a robot) through a field of obstacles. I wonder if the appeal of the pattern in the garden’s medial axis relates to some subliminal human urge to draw mental maps of obstacle-filled spaces, and that in this case the unconscious map we make has an appealing tree shape!)
Posted by Pascale Soleil 2002.10.02, 01:59
I completely disagree. This neither interesting nor useful. Please read my comments on this at:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100595/2002/09/26.html
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