Scott Kim was born in Washington D.C. in 1955 and grew up in California. He is an artist, an author and a computer game and puzzles designer. Since his early years, he was interested in art and math. He did a BA in music and a PhD in Computers and Graphic Design from Stanford University. He was called "the Escher of the alphabet". Kim created the below picture as an assignment for a graphic design class. The assignment was to "Produce a flat design in two or more colors that has no background: that is, one in which the spaces between forms are as positive as the forms themselves (as in a checkerboard). The objective is to make all of the parts of your composition interrelate -- use all of the space and make it all work." Find out Kim's story behind the picture and the process of creating it. The following video is Scott Kim's 11-minute TED Talk where he relates the story of his career and shares some of his favorite games, puzzles, and ambigrams.
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Mr.T (as Achilles calls the tortoise), has a puzzle: A word with the letters 'A', 'D', 'A', 'C' consecutively in it.
Achilles also has a puzzle: a word that begins with 'HE' and ends with 'HE'. Mr.T finds out the solution for Achilles's puzzle and it is 'headache'. I figured this out because Achilles says to the tortoise: "so here's a case where having a headache actually might have helped you rather than hindering you.". Mr.T also figured out the solution to his puzzle and indeed it is 'headache'. The two puzzles had the same answer. The two puzzles form the word headache just like the black as well as the white animals form the picture Mosaic II by M.C.Escher. The black animals can be considered to be the figure of the picture and the white animals can be considered to be the ground of the picture and vice versa. Similarly, Achilles's puzzle can be considered to be the figure of the word 'headache' and the tortoise's puzzle its ground and vice versa. The "dialogue" for this chapter is actually a monologue in the eyes of the reader as only the parts spoken by Achilles are present. Achilles says: "I still can't get over the way Bach uses a single violin to crate a piece with such interest." in referring to Bach's sonatas for unaccompanied violin. He also says: "it seems a little strange that he(Bach) wouldn't have written out the harpsichord part, then and had it published as well..I see sort of an optional feature. One could listen to them either way with or without accompaniment. But how would one know what the accompaniment is supposed to sound like?...I guess that it is best to leave it to the listener's imagination..These sonatas seem to work very well indeed as they are." I believe all what Achilles has said above can be linked to the Dialogue "Unaccompanied Achilles". There is some sort of isomorphism between Bach's sonatas and the dialogue:
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