Welcome to French Emblems at Glasgow. This website gives you access to all the French Emblem Books of the 16th century, along with their Latin versions when appropriate. While the seed of the emblem as a genre was sown in Germany in 1531, it flowered and developed in France during the 16th century, and it was from there that it spread throughout Europe.
The graphic at the top of the page is called a glider. It's a pattern from a mathematical simulation called the Game of Life. In this simulation, very simple rules about the behavior of dots on a grid give rise to wonderfully complex emergent phenomena. T
The graphic at the top of the page is called a glider. It's a pattern from a mathematical simulation called the Game of Life. In this simulation, very simple rules about the behavior of dots on a grid give rise to wonderfully complex emergent phenomena. T
We haven't had an emblem that represents the entire hacker community...This is a proposal that we adopt one — the glider pattern from the Game of Life.
We haven't had an emblem that represents the entire hacker community...This is a proposal that we adopt one — the glider pattern from the Game of Life.