Trying to lay out a Disappearing 9-Patch #quilt
Hallucinant ! As the French say.
I'm using a graphics program and my brain is still boggled. Such a simple function creates seemingly infinite repeating patterns. And if you add the possibility of both horizontal and vertical offsets to the offsets...
Our grandmamas may have been oppressed but it was not for lack of geometry and math skills, good lord. Anyone who could do this without a PC could run Ford or GM.
@MyWoolyMastadon @briankrebs I totally agree but as someone who started resistance lying 25 years ago let me say that it gets progressively harder to keep track of qualifying 'security' answers as the technological vice grip tightens. Take notes for future you. At this point a birthday and mothers maiden name I gave offhandedly in 1997 has become my internet standard. Same thing with software licenses to a made-up random acronym. I don't think I could tell the truth now if I wanted to.
Florine Stettheimer. The Cathedrals of Art, 1942.
Secular altarpiece, cutting satire. This very good article is a thorough discussion and contains many details in close-up.:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/florine-stettheimer-cathedrals-of-art-three-things-
