stbenge wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> First off... sorry, it's not 3D. What you see before you is an on-going 
> project of mine. The goal is to render a field in which endless pictures 
> can be seen. The pictures are made up by your own mind. Therefore, some 
> effort is required to view this image. Not too much effort though! It's 
> best to just gaze calmly, to see what your mind produces.
> 
> The purpose for this? To peer into the subconscious. I believe the 
> subconscious mind is a very creative thing, and that this sort of 
> meditation can help tap into it.
> 
> The effect is achieved by applying a repeat warp (with horizontal 
> mirroring) to a pattern. That pattern is skewed in the x+z direction to 
> vary the effect across a distance, while still maintaining some 
> semblance of symmetry at a local level. That pattern is then copied and 
> added to itself in a function, with different sizes and translations for 
> each instance. A little bit of pigment_mapping is then applied to 
> achieve an aesthetic quality. It is then all placed onto a z-facing 
> plane. It's based (somewhat) on the Rorschach ink blot test.
> 
> I'm interested to know what pictures you guys see in this. I wonder if 
> you will see something here, even if you're not the type to normally see 
> faces in trees and such.
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
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It is a compelling image in it's own right.

The idea of course has lots of pedigree
Leonardo, famously, but I expect you knew that:
http://www.mirabilissimeinvenzioni.com/ing_treatiseonpainting_ing.html

I am also reminded of, I think it was Darren New, posting once about 
research into how music stimulates common brain regions in diverse human 
groups.

I had a group of brain researchers in my taxi one night and I mentioned 
that research/book to them.  I mentioned to one how it called up the 
question for me of how someone even recognizes that something is music. 
Surely it was cultural and context-driven.  His reponse was [to the best 
I can recall] that certain research indicated that humans would reacted 
to repeated fragments of sounds in the same way as to music.  But I 
didn't get much detail, the conversation took that turn just as he was 
getting out of the car.

And, now that I am going, wasn't the virus in Snow Crash and visual pattern?

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