313 Triangular Fascism


PG recently finished a sticker picture. The name of the image is 313 T Fascism. The T is for triangle. They have triangles in Texas and Tennessee.
Originally, the design was a graffiti inspired group of geometric shapes. There are no curved lines in this image…all the lines are straight. This made the final assembly much easier than usual, and created far less scrap. To make up the difference, image 314 will be all curving lines.
At some point in the design process, all the shapes were rendered into triangles. This gave the picture some unity that was lacking when four and five sided polygons were in the house. This conversion of the picture to an all triangle affair suggested the concept of triangle fascism.
There are 52 triangles in 313 T Fascism. Some of them have 90 degree angles, and all the trigonometric qualities therein. Due to the asymmetric nature of the image, it is assumed that all 52 triangles are scalene, or having three different side dimensions and angles. PG is not about to measure the triangles to find out for sure, and is comfortable with the possibility of an isosceles, or even an equilateral, triangle in the midst .
PG had a Geometry teacher in tenth grade named Cofield. She said, without elaboration, that the Pythagorean theorem…the triangle happy cornerstone of mathematics…can be disproven. She was a volunteer in LSD experiments, and said a good glass of whiskey would do more for you.
You could not have triangles without 3. This is a remarkable number. If you divide a number, that is not a multiple of 3, by 3, then you get an eternally repeating decimal of either .333 or .666. The cipher 3 is made of three lines, held together by two semi circles.
The number three is prominently used in religion, mythology, science, and dining. It is the first odd number after one, and is a prime number. When combined with 5 and 8, 3 is a side of a golden triangle. The world as we know it today would not exist if it were not for three.


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