{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Three Model Organisms For Taste","description":"(a continuation of yesterday\u2019s post) Reddit Vexillology Vexillology is the c. elegans of aesthetics - the simplest model organism that lets us observe dynamics of interest. I haven\u2019t read enough MFA books to do more than relay the thoughts of my betters, and you probably haven\u2019t either. But anyone can have opinions on flags. If you\u2019re like me, you learned the following code of good flags: They should be so simple that a child could draw them. No images, no \u201cbusy\u201d areas, and - for God\u2019s sake - no text The rule of tincture: \u201cnever put metal on metal, or color on color\u201d. In medieval heraldry, \u201cmetals\u201d were yellow and white (sometimes implemented with literal gold and silver) and \u201ccolors\u201d were every other color (except black, which is a \u201cfur\u201d and has its own rules). A good flag shouldn\u2019t have a metal touch another metal, or a color touch another color. So the French tricolor (blue then white then red) is okay, but a hypothetical (blue then red then white) tricolor wouldn\u2019t be okay, because blue would be touching red, which would be \u201ccolor on color\u201d. Every so often, a US state will decide that its flag is politically incorrect and sponsor a contest to design a new one. Then online vexillologists will go over the entries, savaging any that violate the code. \u201cLook how busy this one is! It has four different colors!\u201d \u201cOh god, this one literally included text! Can you believe it!\u201d They\u2019ll moan and scowl and ask why everyone can\u2019t be more like Indonesia. Good old Indonesia, they know how to follow the rules: https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/three-model-organisms-for-taste ","author_name":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/sscpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"