The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67998   Message #1144033
Posted By: Mr Red
23-Mar-04 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Venn Diagrams - WHY?
Subject: RE: BS: Venn Diagrams - WHY?
Leenia - Zwicky's Morphology would work better the fabric choices. It is more like a pile of kiddies blocks. Imagine the eastern side of each brick is written an age category. Any one vertical column of would have one age.
tot, kid, teen, twenty, married, ditto with kids, grandparents, silver sewers, dotage.
the north face of each brick could be gender, again same in coumns, differing from column to column.
male, female, androgenous, TV, neutral
and looking down the tops would bear the patterns
tartan, lines, paisley, floral, cloudy, geometrical, William Morris, etc

Now that pile of bricks has a brick for every combination of those groupings above.

This is just an aid to visualise a mathematical process in tangible imagers. But some of us see it better that way.

Yer venn diagram gets a bit difficult to complete combinations in more tha two dimensions. This at least works for three. After that you have to imagine multiple piles of bricks.

There could be mortar bricks than meets the eye......