Aodh Macs Blog

A Rule for the Accentuation of Ancient Greek. Figure 1:   A Greek flag that I coded in SVG. Figure 2:   What the above image looks like when exported as a PNG file You may view the code, and the vector image itself, for the above depicted Greek flag at my CodePen account. Figure 3:   ἡ λύρα Genitive: τῆς λύρᾱς or: hē lúra Genitive: tē̃s lúrās. 1st-declension feminine noun. The lyre. The lyre is very often used to symbolise Ancient Greece. Nouns are Persistent , whereas Verbs are recessive: Nouns are Persistent [1] : When it comes to Ancient-Greek accents, the acc

The Phi Quadrilateral. Phi Quadrilateral a b x y c d      Figure 1:   A Phi Quadrilateral that I coded in SVG.  I believe that these are used for perspective.  The first quadrilateral will have its base line-segment at the bottom of the canvas, in the foreground.  A second quadrilateral - scaled to 0.618033988... the size of the first, will have its base equal in magnitude to the top line segment of the original quadrilateral.  This second quadrilateral has its base at the top line segment of the first quadrilateral.  Quadrilaterals are stacked atop each other until they vanish at the vanish

The Qamats Vowel in Hebrew. The Qāmats: A Qāmats is a Nikkud symbol [1] . Qamats Hebrew Vowel Figure 1:   A Qamats symbol that I coded in SVG. Figure 2:   What the SVG image in Figure 1 looks like when exported as a PNG. Figure 3:   The SVG code that generated the vector image: Figure 1 . A Qāmats is a Hebrew vowel that denotes a long-a sound [2] . The Qāmats-hey (-ah) [3] suffix, in Hebrew, usually denotes a feminine noun, and is a feature of such girl’s names as ‘Leah,’ [4] . which, I think, means ‘soreness,&

Basilikon Doron Basilikòn Dȭron: The Royal Gift Figure 1:   The title page of the Basilikon Doron . King James VI of Scotland (19 th June 1566 – 27 th March 1625) - later King James I of England - became fluent in Latin and Greek at an extremely young age. He wrote a book entitled: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [1] . or: BASILIKON DORON , which means: The Kingly Gift , in 1599.  This book is addressed to his eldest son, Henry Frederick (19 th February 1594 – 6 th November 1612) , and it is a book advising him on how to become a good monarch. [1] .  βασιλοκὸν δῶρον or basilikòn dȭron , The Kingly Gift, The Royal Gift .  /bɑ.ˌsɪ.lɪ.ˈkɔn ˈdoː.ron/

How Long is a Piece of String How long is a piece of string?  This is very often touted — by non-philosophers, mostly — as being one of the ultimate philosophical questions.   The preceding question, after which this blog-post is entitled, is generally regarded as unanswerable. However, in our case, the question can indeed be answered, as this piece of string — coded in SVG — is 77 lines long! Figure 1:   A piece of cotton string that I coded in SVG. Figure 2:   As we can observe from this code-shot, the SVG file that has produced the piece of string depicted in Figure 1 is 77 lines long. Figure 3:   What the vector image, depicted in Figure 1 , looks like when saved — or exported —as a PNG file. You may observe the source-code of the above-depicted piece of string at my Codepen account .

Figure 1:   a very ergonomic  looking office chair! The Ancient-Greek noun, τὸ ἔργον or 'tò érgov' means 'work;' whereas the Ancient-Greek noun, ὁ νόμος or 'ho nómos' means 'custom,' 'law;' and the Latin 1st-and-2nd-declension adjectival suffix, '-ica, -icus, -icum' means 'of.' From the above Ancient Classical words, we derive the English noun, 'ergonomics,' which is the study and application of workplace comfort, safety and hygiene with a view to improving the contentedness and well-being of staff.