Shape

97 There Is No Vocabulary—Well, Almost
in checkerboard fashion. Try the shape
again, and notice how these orthogonal alternatives clash. You can’t see four squares at
once—at least while you’re looking at three. What should I try now?
This kind of problem looks hard. I can combine shapes, so that they don’t share
parts—maximal lines are discrete—but this won’t work. Neither the triangles nor the
squares in the shapes
have any parts in common. I’ll just insist that shapes don’t touch. That takes care of
everything I’ve shown so far. Are there any other problems? Well, shapes are still unrestricted.
Suppose I try the vocabulary
in which every shape is a pair of squares just like my angle brackets h and i when they
match up. Now the shape
is two shapes from my vocabulary in three different ways