I’m going to finish off with a couple of stills taken from Charles and Ray Eames’ 1967 short A Computer Glossary or, Coming To Terms With The Data Processing Machine dealing with the subject of pattern recognition. Of course, the only time you’ll see a pawn in a corner square is just prior to being promoted to another piece on the eighth rank, which is clearly not the case here.

Charles and his wife Ray were American designers who had a healthy interest in science and used their artistic talents to create a large number of short films. The best known of these is probably the 1977 Powers of Ten, a realization of their 1968 A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe. The concept belongs of course to Kees Boeke who published his Cosmic View — aimed at a youth audience — in 1957. I read the book (borrowed from the library) in the early 60s and was sufficiently impressed by it to purchase a copy many years later as an adult — just to own it.