Saturday, June 6, 2015

Chaos Wheel




The Chaos Wheel is simply a mandelbrot set. As if it were a gobo...a cut out that is placed in front of a theater light to cast a shadow.
Also, they are like wheels that can spin on a center axis or a gobo, which is usually coal black, might have a center pin or rivet.
Or imagine as if the Mandelbrot set was in a graphic design program and it had a window in the largest strange attractor. Its really very simple to see...imagine placing two of the same meshes over each other, and spinning them around. There is a kind of increase in complexity to the point where there is maximum obstruction of vision.
So, there are three overlayed and two are spun or adjusted to a fix spot after being turned there on a center axis.
The idea being the most chaos is overlayed in a most obstructive way, one is fixed, two is like six degrees and the third wheel is like 269 degrees.
Chaos times three, but this rhetoric, really. So, the most chaotic way of aligning the three shapes is juxtaposed with the most balanced way of aligning the three wheels. Aesthetics trumps complexity when it is a result of simplification.
So, there is also this kind of chaos wheel, as implied by the already enumerated time phases and doublings and so on.
Think of the five images all having similar compositions yet each a different object more or less not related. The idea is not to perfect the problem but just come up with a solution that fits for this moment:
Fish
Leaf
Slow motion chain (famous Futurist image with a dog)
A womans belly
A lozenge shaped enigma moving through metallic hydrogen like a dolphin.

These composition are all about the same scale, maybe some slightly smaller others slightly larger than a bell curve of three in the middle, etc).

This represent a graphic transition, but a simple frequency. So, when two images do match each other in composition as identified by comparing light and dark shades or a Histogram, and finding a match.
This occurs randomly at this point, but if aligned with the time scales mixing here and there within otherwise realistic 30 fps video, this phasing look can be activated for motion scenes across the five channels simultaneously.
This is already done in a number of movies.
Movie editing technique notes...to build a kind of list according to a methodology that is based on theater first, so the editing technique is left to the dregs.

Its not necessary to try and plan and plot this out, you see. Its just the game rules and setting allowing a time table to be set and referenced backward. So the fracturing narrative, which will fracture most when it is first discovered in game that the Oracle Device can fracture reality, it will do a bunch and then come back around to trying to keep a narrative.

This first instance will be quite long and may dominate overlong in the theater. However, there is a stretch of time enabled by the recording itself, so that editing can erase game tedium.
It should be humorous and really does have potential for some humor. Its the kind of humor that might be more ingame so it fails most often, but then it might not. Some players have good game.








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