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Phi Movement

 

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A more elegant experiment to demonstrate the Phi phenomenon or effect originally made use of two parallel line segments with a gap between them. By displaying them in alternation, there is a rate at which we start to perceive the two separate segments as a single line moving back and forth, however that remains unclear (see: wikipedia talk-page reference). We are perhaps more familiar with the effect as the spinning pinwheel, wait cursor, or chaser-lights lining the perimeter of theatre marquees.

What is peculiar about the phenomenon is not only that it works in creating the illusion of motion between recognizably static elements. Continue reading “Phi Movement”

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Synchronous Sortilege

Coincidental Connections

In the spirit of things non-linear, an interesting coincidence just occurred. Attempting to re-enable comments, in light of the previous post, I visited my site from the computer of a friend already logged-in to WP. Given how comments were not readily working from that account, I offhandedly searched for “future release temporality” from their reader. The top result was:

— Source: https:// environmentalcritique. files.wordpress.com/ 2016/07/

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Fireflies like Stepping-Stones

Fireflies Across the Border

Intermittently flashing, they carve free-flowing paths of light through dark time. Each spark signals an evanescent route of moving  steps run-through by matching rhythms calling forth immanent reproduction. Leaving no trace except immediate direction to those already there, they are semaphores to an alternate world, passages from the future of a traveling autonomy.
 


 

The metaphor is derivative, a reproduction from a more articulate source. I cannot find the corresponding reference in the text I thought it was from.

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Concrescent Loops

SYNCHRONOUS primordium

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A random selection of more or less recent audio loops.  In common, they share a healthy dose of aleatoric production methods making sure that every performance is significantly different. Even though the shared recordings are static replicas of a particular variation, they all represent unique renditions of entirely unrepeatable performances.

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Retracing Previous Methods

 A Reminder to Not Postpone

Animation renders in preview, then post.

In conversation, when I was describing the effect, it occurred that there could be an application for it as a surveillance tool. It compresses frames both spatially and temporally so image sequences can be monitored more efficiently, at a higher rate and with individually modifiable layers. The images themselves are not compressed, the sequence is (however the sample above was further compressed several times by the publishing platform.)