Poioumenon A Definition en.wiktionary.org A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself). Bo Burnham: Inside literaturemakingartself-reference
Hofstadter's Law An Idea by Douglas Hofstadter en.wikipedia.org It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. On the "Building" of Software and WebsitesDeadlines are bullshitParkinson's Law recursionself-referenceplanningtime
Caustic Engineering An Article by Geoff Manaugh www.bldgblog.com Show image 0 Show image 1 A piece of milled plexiglass acting as a projecting lens; via the Computer Graphics and Geometry Lab at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne New milling techniques applied to glass and plexiglass panels could be used to “create windows that are also cryptic projectors, summoning ghostly images from sunlight.” [Pauly and Bompas] hope that the technique will be used in architectural design, to create windows that mould sunlight and throw images or patterns onto walls or floors,” which, if timed, milled, and manipulated just right, could produce a slowly animated sequence of images being projected by an otherwise empty window during different times of day. Caustic (optics)Architectural Caustics opticsflightcaustics