The symbolism and creative process behind the graphics used to feature this series of articles (Ravenous Wolves). *** Impossible dimensions, tessellations, fractals, and animations created by fluctuations in the mind's perceptions of the #Figure / #Ground. *** (see article: The Grasp of Gestalt *** OpEdNews . com /populum/page.php?f=The-Grasp-of-Gestalt-by-Dom-Filanowski-Covid-19-211118-818.html

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"Ravenous Wolves" image:

An astute observer may have noticed that the cover art for the Ravenous Wolves series is not a depiction of a wolf but that of a spider - a #WOLFspider. The female wolf spider carries her egg sac until the offspring hatch out and crawl onto her abdomen, where they remain for a brief period of motherly protection. Covered in spider silk, the egg sacs themselves are protected from the elements by one of the strongest, most durable materials on earth - out of all the wolves to wear fleece.

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"EstablishMent Web of Lies" image:

The "EstablishMent Web of Lies" image depicts a symbol of the EstablishMent hiding behind a silk-covered egg sac, a "Five-Dimensional Web of Lies", which is also the title of the opening article for the "Ravenous Wolves" series. This article happens to be the most informative in relation to current events. Remarkably, the web / egg sac image was created by superimposing two separate line segment graphics, geometric designs that are interesting in their own right.

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In fact, these primary designs were interesting enough to be used as the cover art for two other articles within the Ravenous Wolves series. It is rather ironic that a lotus flower and a dandelion could be combined in the formation a spider web, but there are no limits to the superimposition of graphic material. The geometric significance of "Ravenous Artwork - Lotus Flower" and "#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" will be detailed below.

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Perhaps the most interesting aspect of "EstablishMent Web of Lies" (#MentWeb) is the chaotic uniformity of the piece. At first glance, it would appear as though the line segments are not based on any form of regular geometry. But the mind does start to pick up on impossible dimensions (think of the numerous staircase pieces by MC Escher, but a simplified version) in addition to regular geometric shapes, particularly the 5- and 6-pointed mullet (star), which originate from the lotus flower and dandelion pieces respectively. The 5-pointed mullet is more noticeable if the piece is rotated 90 degrees, giving the mullet a vertical orientation and left-right symmetry. This #LeftRightSymmetry is likely the reason why the mind is more likely to pick up on the 5-pointed mullet in that orientation.

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Admittedly, the superimposition which created the #MentWeb was purely accidental. All the designs used in this series were originally created about 20 years ago but were never officially applied to anything. The author was saving this work in his arsenal for something although he did not know what it would be. "Five-Dimensional Web of Lies" was originally published with a bland title, but the author decided to go in a different direction, utilizing his arsenal of optical art (#OpArt) to promote the series.

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Shortly after changing the title name, the author had intended to use the artwork from "New Spiritual Order, 5-D Awareness" to represent the #MentWeb. However, when looking through the various layers of an old vector file, the author stumbled upon the superimposition by having both layers turned on simultaneously and was blown away by the result. The rest - is hist'ry.

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"Ravenous Wolves" image,

#RavenousWolf_KamaLaHarris image, &

#RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump image:

These three pieces use a tessellating spider design that was inspired by the little sister of the author's former girlfriend, many moons ago. She was in elementary school at the time and was assigned a tessellation project in art class. When the author was on break from college, he decided to create his own tessellations based on a hexagon. This annoyed the girlfriend's little sister, who thought the author was competing with her, so he gave her some inspirational advice that she would one day have the ability to create something even greater. In addition to the spider design, there were also multiple tessellating #Bee and #Moth pieces created around the same time (early 2000s).

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Basing these tessellations on a hexagon, as opposed to a square, gave the interlocking relationship another dimension of difficulty because a hexagon has six intersecting edges, along three axes of symmetry, as opposed to four edges along two axes. This can most easily be illustrated with the little green, khaki, and brown spiders that form the fractal amalgamation of the same design in #RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump. The little spiders look slightly distorted due to having a different offset or stroke thickness, but the interlocking line segments of these spiders are identical to the line segments that form the conglomerate spider.

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#RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump is both a tessellation and a fractal design. A tessellation is a geometric design with tiles that form an interlocking pattern which can be repeated for infinity in all directions. A fractal is a geometric pattern that infinitely repeats at different levels of magnification. In this particular design, the pattern can be repeated infinitely in two separate ways, by tiling and by scaling.

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In addition to "EstablishMent Web of Lies",

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#RavenousWolf_KamaLaHarris and

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#RavenousWolf_DonaldTrump

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both incorporate the EstablishMent symbol as part of the design because both politicians (along with Clinton, Biden et al) have worked together in a coordinated effort to intensify working class partisanship.

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"New Spiritual Order, 5-D Awareness" image:

As previously mentioned, this piece was initially intended to be used as the cover art for "Five-Dimensional Web of Lies", but the author discovered the effects of superimposing the lotus flower and dandelion pieces and went with the more appropriate visual representation of a web. Although it might be difficult to see this at the moment, the spiritual realm is not limited to the forces of evil. Therefore, an optical art piece that demonstrates impossible dimensions could be used to represent the forces of good, or it could be used to represent the forces of evil, depending on which one is more appropriate.

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"New Spiritual Order" is fractal, and it has impossible dimension effects. If an observer stares at the piece long enough, the line segments start to pop out as if they were a three-dimensional representation, but the objects formed in the mind could not exist within three spatial dimensions, hence the term "impossible" dimensions. If the observer stares at this piece long enough, the dimensionality starts to animate, something an observer confirmed without being conditioned.

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The piece was created with an octagon that circumscribes two 4-pointed mullets, one with an orthogonal orientation, and one with a 45-degree rotation. The interior points of the two 4-pointed mullet #Compass pattern intersect with the exterior points of the smaller 8-pointed mullet. The interior of the 8-pointed mullet forms an octagon, which means the entire piece could be scaled down to the size of that interior octagon to create a fractal pattern.

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"#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" image:

As previously mentioned, this piece and another one were superimposed to form "EstablishMent Web of Lies". "#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" is based on a dodecagon, a 12-sided polygon. Each line segment that makes up the dodecagon was used to form an isosceles triangle, and the inner points of the 12 triangles were connected to the center point of the dodecagon.

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Additionally, there are two 6-pointed mullets with exterior points that intersect with the dodecagon vertices. One of the 6-pointed mullets has a vertical orientation, and one has a horizontal orientation. The intersecting silhouette of the two 6-pointed mullets forms a 12-pointed mullet. And the intertangled mesh created by the two mullets and twelve triangles creates the impression of a dandelion seedhead (#Puffball).

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"Ravenous Artwork - Lotus Flower" image:

The arrangement of line segments used to create "Ravenous Artwork - Lotus Flower" (the cover art for Ravenous Artwork) were superimposed with the line segments which comprise "#GnG_Reciprocity - Dandelion" to create a third line segment graphic, "EstablishMent Web of Lies".

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On its own, the #LotusFlower stands out as a fractal #OpArt design, and the author chose to display it with a 90-degree rotation (relative to its layout in "EstablishMent Web of Lies") so that the 5-pointed mullets have a vertical orientation and #LeftRightSymmetry.

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Because twelve is divisible by four, an orthogonal dodecagon (12-sided polygon) either has 4 vertices at its extents, or it has 4 line segments at its extents. An orthogonal decagon (10-sided polygon), on the other hand, has two points (or vertices) at its extents in the horizontal, and it has two line segments at its extents in the vertical (or vice versa).

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An orthogonal decagon either has a vertical orientation and left-right symmetry, or it has a horizontal orientation and top-bottom symmetry.

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Conversely, an orthogonal dodecagon does not have a separate orientation for the vertical / horizontal because it simultaneously has both left-right and top-bottom symmetry. Twelve is divisible by four, and ten is not.

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The #LotusFlower design is based on a decagon, a 10-sided polygon that circumscribes an upright 5-pointed mullet and its mirror image, an upside-down mullet that also has five points. The interior vertices of the upright mullet intersect with the exterior vertices of another mullet that has been scaled down and mirrored. This process was repeated three more times (#UprightNest), and the outer upside-down mullet contains four nesting mullets as well (#UpsideDownNest).

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The #UprightNest and the #UpsideDownNest were superimposed before being framed by a decagon to form the completed #LotusFlower design, which has a 10-pointed mullet at its center and a 10-pointed polygon at its extents. Therefore, the design is fractal. The entire piece could be copied and scaled down so that the vertices of the new decagon intersect with the 10 interior vertices of the old, 10-pointed mullet at the center of the original design.

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Authors Website: https://domp.blog/

Authors Bio:

Neologist, absurdist, menial laborer, CERTIFIED PROPAGANDIST - working to FIGHT AGAINST propaganda

AS in Graphic Design; "BS" in Manipulation (Psychology) s/; Master of Science in Reality s/

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Greenbelt Overhaul Alliance of Levittown (GOAL): 2021 - 2023

Appointed board member; serving Lower Bucks County with refuse removal, educating the public, and working with other local organizations and municipalities to the benefit of the community and the environment; volunteer at periodic cleanups since 2016

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The Knights of Columbus, Advocate for Pokrova Council: 2019 - present

Elected Officer position; liaison between the Council (13561) and the community; organized coordination between the Council and GOAL/EAC

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*I never had the opportunity to meet Dale Frazier, the founder of GOAL who passed away in 2015, but I was very close to the former president of GOAL, Edmund Armstrong. Before his untimely death, Ed was working on developing "#microcontroller based, water-level detectors that would, in real time, bounce water levels off of cell towers with the information being available via the Internet."

#microcontroller:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/tNPZv8fpAg9m5fCs/

Ed passed away in 2023, and the organization was dissolved shortly thereafter. The eulogy I gave at Ed's funeral tastefully joked about his lack of faith and made reference to my coordination efforts between Pokrova Council and GOAL (link below). Several of his family members praised the eulogy and thanked me for giving it afterwards. Also in attendance at the funeral was the son of the Commanding Officer who sent Ed to the brigantine before his dishonorable discharge for insubordination, a punitive separation of which he was proud (I admire Ed for his courage and perseverance). Ed was kind and respectful enough to wait until after the Commanding Officer's son had walked away (I met his son at a GOAL cleanup before Ed's passing) to tell me the story about his so-called "duck dinner."

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/apobFGJJyLjkNp7X/

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Bristol Township Environmental Advisory Council: 2019 - 2022

Appointed board member; advise elected officials of the local municipality on issues that relate to the protection of natural resources; de facto member since 2016; banished from Municipal Complex in 2021 due to vaccination status (attended virtual meetings when possible in addition to GOAL meetings at private residences; GOAL and BTEAC typically held joint meetings in the Bristol Township public auditorium)

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#Petitioned the Philadelphia Free Library to provide virtual access to the Oxford English Dictionary: 2018

Shared by Peter Gilliver (OED editor, lexicographer) on October, 6, 2024

https://x.com/dompfil/status/1843152929278034398

#FreeOED4PA #WordsHavePower #PowerToThePeople

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#RecentEvents regarding October 9, 2024 (please click on all the "bubbles" to view all the tweets in each thread):

https://x.com/dompfil/status/1844257092695359629

https://x.com/dompfil/status/1845748669833707990

https://x.com/dompfil/status/1846704450544849160

https://x.com/dompfil/status/1847194421521006820

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The Knights of Columbus Food for Families Program: 2018 - present

Transport nonperishable goods from St. Mary's Parish in Bristol to Mother's Cupboard, a pantry at St. Michael's parish in Tullytown / Levittown #KOCfood4families

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Provided free campaigning services for local Green Party candidates: 2017

https://x.com/dompfil/status/1840310700285051138

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St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church (adjacent to the Bristol Township Municipal Complex): 2016 - present

Church usher; collection of offerings; light candles; turn out lights and lock doors; aid elderly parishioners down steps; Eucharistic Adoration (monthly meditation IN THE PRESENCE OF God)

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Bucks County Technical High School: 2002 - 2014

Chairperson of the Educational Advisory Committee, in which the curriculum of attending students is discussed for revisions and improvements; #AdvocatedFor every high-school graduate to have a comprehensive understanding of gestalt theory principles

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ARTICLE: #TheGraspOfGestalt by Domp Filanowski

https://web.archive.org/web/20240928085109/https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?f=The-Grasp-of-Gestalt-by-Dom-Filanowski-Covid-19-211118-818.html

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SERIES: #ThePhiladelphiaChronicles by Domp Filanowski

An in-depth critique of partisanship and its destructive nature in the context of Covid-19

https://web.archive.org/web/20240928085041/https://media.muckrack.com/portfolio/items/15081312/Series-The-Philadelphia-Chronicles-12-05-2021.pdf

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My #TwoResponses to Gabriel Shipton's (Julian Assange's brother) X-post: "What would you say if you were Julian?"

1. https://x.com/dompfil/status/1840742334561984880

2. A continuation of "The Philadelphia Chronicles" research (8 pages long)

"Please read beyond the first few items as they lead up to a much stronger case below (e.g., 2009 #ECDC Public Health Guidance; Meryl Nass, MD bio). . ."

https://x.com/dompfil/status/1840744602493407326

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Gabriel Shipton's post:

https://x.com/GabrielShipton/status/1838646098057138669

PACE hearing on Assange, detention and conviction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzHktIKyt-w

Kevin Gosztola's transcript of the PACE hearing below (Gosztola is THE whistleblower journalist -who, unlike some MSM reporters we know, was capable of staying awake while covering the Manning trial; check out his book, "Guilty of Journalism. . ."; also, please support his website, Shadowproof.com; the man works very hard, and his coverage has become an invaluable resource; Gosztola and Kiriakou both signed my book at the 2023 Busboys and Poets presentation; transcript below):

https://thedissenter.org/julian-assanges-speech-to-pace-strasbourg/

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Gender dysphoric #PhillyBoy; unabashed Catholic; lifelong proponent of the Second Amendment who #VoluntarilyRelinquished all his firearms out of a legitimate concern that he may one day be "suicided" by the state, for speaking truth to power

https://web.archive.org/web/20240221003913/https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/sttism.htm

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#AaronSw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc

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In solidarity with Tavis Smiley and Michael Render, AKA Killer Mike. . .

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#TavisSmiley #Solidarity #KillerMike

#ElevateBlackVoices #AmplifyBlackVoices

#CreateHealthyWorkspaces #SenseOfNuance #EndUpBeingGuilty #GuiltyByAccusation

#MeTooMisAppropriation #MeTooMisAprptn #P_BS

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#Amdt2MilitiaOfThePeople

#WellRegulated #SelfRegulated #WellOiledMachine #FineTunedAbleBodied

#OED1stEdition #RegulateDefinition2

#NonviolentResistance #2ndAmdtLeverage

#UnderstandingNotTNT #NoStrongerInTheirHands #ThePeopleNotTheState

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#IntuitionDignityEnough

#AntiStateSolidarity #InternationalSolidarity #CommonStruggle

#ParaTodosTodoParaNosotrosNada #EverythingForEveryoneNothingForUs

#UnMundoDondeQuepanMuchosMundos #AWorldWhereManyWorldsFit

#HigherGround

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#NewSpiritualOrder

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