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Does anyone have Roz Diamond's email - anyone, please? Thanks, Amy Amy Moxley 215 E. 15th Street NY, NY 10003 >From: Alan Penn <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Academic 'Family Tree' >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:52:57 +0100 > >Not quite I think. The example you give is a face edge dual of a polyhedron >- these can have self duals - the simplest to think about is a tetrahedron. >I think what you need for Mike's riddle is an edge vertex dual of the axial >graph. The problem is that taking a dual of a dual does not return you to >the original graph in the case of trees as the leaves (one connected lines) >disappear. The reverse process involves clique reduction (cliques are >replaced by nodes and shared nodes between cliques become edges). Actually >the issue here depends on what Mike means by "the same as".. > > > >Alan > > > > > >Isn't this just another way of asking for a self-dual network (i.e. the >graph and it's dual are isomorphic)? There's a lot of these about, graphs >that is, not axial lines, here's a pretty one attached below. The question >is how to get from the graph to the original axial line network, as, >obviously an infinite number of axial maps can produce the same graph >network. Funnily enough, Sheep has just produced some nifty code to do this >- you enter in the graph network and it provides the most probably axial >map. > > > >Is the book any good, by the way? ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > >I cannot resist it: a prize of our CASA book to anyone who can figure out >the following riddle. > >Show us the ultimate recursion - that "The tree must be composed of axial >lines in such a way that a space syntax graph of the tree is the same as >the >original tree itself " > >Come on Rui ! > >Happy Easter > >Mike > >:-} > >At 15:30 04/04/2007, Ruth Conroy Dalton wrote: > > > >For the purposes of a paper I am writing and, mostly, purely for reasons of >interest, I am trying to put together the 'academic family tree' for space >syntax. Many other fields have done this - the most detailed example is the >mathematical one, which can be found at >http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ > >Barsically, for those who don't know, one's academic 'parent' is your >doctoral supervisor (PhD, I'm afraid, masters do not count) and your own >students, upon successful completion, are your 'children'. So far I have >been putting together the primary UCL branches, but I'd now like to hear >from anyone who has a PhD which mostly uses space syntax methods (please >use >sensible judgement here), equally, if you have supervised such PhDs, a list >of your completed students. Once I have put this together, I will place the >results online, so that it can be searchable. > >So - if you ever wanted to know your parents, nephews, or second cousins >twice removed, then this is how to find out! > >Ideally I'd like > >Name: >Year of PhD thesis: >Title of thesis: >Supervisor: > >(But it's the name and supervisor that are most important) > >(In the American system, this would be the chair of your committee or in >the >UK system your primary supervisor). > >For those interested, > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_genealogy > >There are some good links from the Wikipedia entry. I particularly like the >neurology one. > >Just think - if we eventually have the full network, we could identify the >most 'integrated' individuals! > >By the way, my hunch is that we've made it to four generations already - >but >there may be a few surprises. Please respond. > >Regards > >Ruth > >-- > > ---------------------------- >Dr Ruth Conroy Dalton >Room 334 >The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies >University College London >1-19 Torrington Place >London WC1E 6BT >Tel. +44 20 7679 5924 >Fax +44 20 7916 1887 >---------------------------- > > > > > _____ > > >Michael Batty | CASA | University College London | 1-19 Torrington Place >London WC1E 6BT UK | Tel 44 207 679 1782 | Mobile 44 7768 423 656 | >email: [log in to unmask] | web: www.casa.ucl.ac.uk ><http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/> > > > > > > > ><< image001.jpg >> _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE Web site, company branded e-mail and more from Microsoft Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/