Diagrammatic Forms

an interface for the Laws of Form notation system


In the 1969 published book Laws of Form author George Spencer-Brown states a command:

Draw a distinction

This interface allows to notate drawn distinctions in the diagrammatic form of the cross and the re-entry. A nested feedback system of how humans de-sign meaning. The Laws of Form are not only a mathematic concept, but a diagrammatic notation system consisting of two lines drawn together. The distinction is marked by a vertical line from which one side is indicated by a horizontal line from the top of the distinction.


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References

| Distinction cross() |

| Re-Entry *cross() | Pro-Entry /cross() Re-Entering the outside of a distinction |

| Hide Cross !cross() | Empty Cross _() | Space between Words cross_cross() |

| Equal Sign ' = ' is equal to '!=()' Within the system everything is a distinction, even the equality. For alternatives such as the assignment operator ' := ' write '!:=()' |

Expressions

George Spencer-Brown

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Dirk Baecker

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Input

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Diagram

Export

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Credits

This interface is part of the PhD thesis of Kim Albrecht at the institut for art and media, european media studies, University of Potsdam.

References

George Spencer-Brown, Laws of Form, 1969, Allen & Unwin

Dirk Baecker (Hrsg.), Kalkül der Form, 1993, Suhrkamp

Felix Lau, Die Form der Paradoxie, 2005, Carl-Auer Verlag

Dirk Baecker, Kulturkalkül, 2014, Merve

Copyright © 2020 Kim Albrecht