I've invested more than my fair share in ridicule over the years (especially as a kid), so to see it returning to me
with interest as an adult ...feels as though some of the debt I've incurred in this life is being paid off a little bit at a time. That's a good feeling. Karma's only a bitch to those who fail to see her beauty.
That's not necessarily to say I'm not a dimwitted buffoon who takes himself too seriously, though.
Anyway, getting back to Rodin's
Quantum Numerology, while the nonagram in my previous post seems to illustrate width (via the 3 nine-pointed stars that appear to emanate from the center outward), depth (with the stacked-up triangles), and height (with the inferred 4-sided pyramid), what it doesn't represent is the overlapping cross-directional travel of the previous formula.
The challenge then, is to create an opposing directional flow that remains true to the underlying geometry ...and, at least to some degree, to the movement by fours.
For this, I think some restraints on the numerological reduction thing (without completely suspending it) may be in order.
As always, starting the next axis where the previous one left off (at 1), but
parenthetically restricting the numerological reduction here on out, the addition of 1 to all of the numbers 4 times around the perimeter would come to a close at 37 (1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+1=4, ...and so on to 36+1=37). Notice that 37 would correspond to 1's position on the chart, which makes perfect sense (since 3+7=10, and 1+0=1). The same would be true for all of the non-reduced numbers that had preceded it (36 would correspond to 9, 35 to 8, 34 to 7, all the way back to 1).
From 37 (and position 1), still refraining from numerological reduction
outside of the parentheses, we could start the next axis by moving in fours via subtraction and travel backwards along the very path used during the initial addition phase.
37-4=33 (3+3=position 6)
33-4=29 (2+9=11, 1+1=position 2)
29-4=25 (2+5=position7)
25-4=21 (2+1=position 3)
21-4=17 (1+7=position 8)
17-4=13 (1+3=position 4)
13-4=9 (position 9)
9-4=5 (position 5)
5-4=1 (position 1)
So, the subtraction axis would move: [1], 6, 2, 7, 3, 8, 4, 9, 5, 1
The synthesized movement would then flow:
1, 5, 9, 4, 8, 3, 7, 2, 6, [1], 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, [1], 6, 2, 7, 3, 8, 4, 9, 5, 1.
Addition of 4, addition of 1 by 4x around the perimeter, and subtraction of 4 ...would be the respective impetuses.
Notice the mirror symmetry between the first and third axises, despite the parenthetical restriction placed on the third.
This movement would result in 4 overlapping rotations in the same direction around the perimeter, as well as two perfectly overlapping nonagrams traveling in opposite directions.
