slimbits
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A million different ways to think about information.
grid paper
I used to doodle when I was bored in school. One that I would frequently come back to is one where I would draw 9 dots in a square and connect them randomly to make symbols. I'd usually start with basic shapes like squares and crosses but quickly found that I would have to think harder and harder to find new combinations. It became this kind of game I would play against myself where I would try to not repeat the same symbol twice.
At some point I had to ask myself: how many of these combinations are there?
The answer blew me away a little bit...
How could something so simple give way to
such a staggering array of variation in form?
It turns out the math is actually pretty simple
The bit is compromised of 9 dots. Each dot is positioned at the intersection of a square grid. Lines can be rendered by connecting two points. To avoid redundancy and limit the scope, I have structured the system so that a point passing through another point is considered two segments and not a single unbroken line. (ie. connecting points 1-9 is actually two lines 1-5 and 5-9)
This means that the system has 28 total possible lines that can either be displayed, or not.
So what could I do with this?
