Seeing:
from Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Shape: Talking about Seeing and Doing by George Stiny
from Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
The Dot by Armin Hofmann, poster by Tony Pritchard
The Snowman by Wallace Stevens
Teaching to See Like a Mathematician by Walter Whiteley
Edward Tufte's website, including the film Teaching to See about Inge Druckrey
Properties:
Shape
How to Guard an Art Galley by T.S. Michael
Polygon Triangulation by Subhash Suri
Is Every Polygonal Region Illuminable From Some Point? by Victor Klee
Polygonal Rooms Not Illuminable From Every Point by George W. Tokarsky
Position
Packing Pennies in the Plane by Bill Casselman
Erich's Packing Center by Erich Friedman
Geometric Packing Problems by Joe Malkevitch
Can You Do Better? by Bill Casselman
Packing Problem on Wikipedia
Size
Taxi! by Joe Malkevitch
Taxicab Geometry: An Adventure in Non-Euclidean Geometry
by Eugene F. Krause (I have copies)
Some problems and solutions for square grid-based fire spread simulation
by David Caballero
Explorations into Euclidean and Taxicab Minimum Distances by Hudson Cooke
see also: taxicabgeometry.net
Connection
Sperner's Lemma on Cut the Knot
Sperner's Lemma on Wikipedia
The Hairy Ball Theorem via Sperner's Lemma by Tyler Jarvis and James Tanton
Game Theory and Math Economics: A TCS Introduction by Christos Papadimitriou
Dimension
Learning to Appreciate Dimension by Kenji Ueno
Geographic Coordinate System by Jim Riesterer
Coordinate System on Wikipedia
Curved Space Geometry by Rafi Moor
Definitions:
from Definitions in Mathematics by Zalman Usiskin et al
Words by Alan Lightman
from Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos
Definitions from Euclid's Elements
An Euler diagram of types of triangles
from Creswell's Geometry (1819)
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