Dozenalism

Adventures in Numbers, Measurement, and Math
 

Dozenal Multimedia


By and large, this dozenal web site is text, sometimes rather dense text. This page accumulates the more visual media available on this site relating to the dozenal system. This includes graphics and animations, and hopefully soon even video. It is hoped that this multimedia material will help dozenalism reach a wider audience.

Graphics

Dozenal Logos
Dozenal Shape Logo An interesting logo showing the shapes which work especially well for the dozenal system. The background shape is a unniligon (in decimal called a dodecagon); this is followed by a hexagon, then a quadragon (square), then a trinagon (triangle). Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
Hammond's Colored Dozenal Shape Logo Suggested by the DSGB's Don Hammond in No. 1 of The Dozenal Journal back in 1191, this logo was intended as a sort of dozenal "coat of arms," described in heraldric terms, and intended for embossments on buttons and the like. In addition to shapes, this logo shows dozenal's relationships to the primary colors. Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
Other Dozenal Images
Image of piano keyboard
		showing the logical simplicity of dozenal musical
		notation and the craziness of our current system. An image depicting a piano keyboard, numbered in simple logic according to dozenal numeration. Beneath the keyboard are the note letters in our current illogical and needlessly complex system. An excellent way of showing how simply dozenal really is, when someone seems overwhelmed due to being unused to it. Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
TGM Images
TGM Clock Image An image of a clock showing hours, unciaHours, and biciaHours. An excellent way of displaying the advantage of dozenal timekeeping. Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
TGM Protractor The TGM protractor, graduated in Pis and unciaPis. Contains inside it three trinagons (triangles) showing the sums of the angles equal to 1;0 Pi. Duplicated from the original TGM booklet. Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
TGM Speedometer A TGM speedometer, showing in the outside loop speeds in Vlos; the middle loop, speeds in miles per hour; and the inner loop, speeds in kilometers per hour. An excellent way of showing the common comparisons of speeds between TGM and the older decimal systems. Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
TGM Weather
		Thermometer A TGM weather thermometer, showing temperatures in tregrees, degrees Celsius, and degrees Fahrenheit on a basic weather scale. Tregrees are an auxiliary unit based off the core TGM unit, the Calg. Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
TGM Thermometer A full TGM thermometer, showing temperatures from absolute zero in quadquaCalg, kilokelvin, and kiloRankine. Written in Metapost, available here in png; other formats available upon request.
Other Scientific Images
Mendeleev
		Periodic Table of the Elements, with dozenal atomic
		numbers and atomic weights A complete, Mendeleev periodic table, available in png and pdf. Developed from a decimal periodic table written in LaTeX (specifically, tikZ) by Ivan Griffin, and generously released under the LPPL. Complete with atomic weights and the other normal information contained on the periodic table.

Animation

Unquagram (dodecagram)
		drawing, animated An animated demonstration of the drawing of an unquagram (called, in our current illogical system, a dodecagram). Drawn in Metapost, available here as animated gif or as a Flash animation produced with swftools.
Animation of
		inscribing unquagon (dodecagon) in circle An animation of the process of inscribing an unquagon (called, in our current illogical system, a dodecagon) in a circle using a compass and straightedge. Licensed CC-BY-SA by its author, Aldoaldoz, and posted on Wikipedia.

Video