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tcaudilllg · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject:

I had an intuition recently that artists perceive flows of cracking light energy--the kind you see in videogame graphics (like spells) and in comics--by visualizing the force currents that exist in our world, but don't produce light. To see the world in terms of force is kind of like seeing it in terms of those toys with the magnet shards that you organize with a magnet of the opposite pole to make pictures with. Or to see it in terms of a magnetoscope. Imagine the wind breaking forth light as it hits the trees, or a radiant shockwave echoing across the surface of a table after you pound your fist against it.

I intuit, that just possibly, given that it has proved so difficult for we as a race to bend the flow of light in mid-air, that any mechanation that could produce the bends of light we see in the visualizations of magic and energy that we see in games and comics, would indeed produce the effects we associate with those visualizations. That is to say, for us to see the image of something as light, in midair, it must have physical correspondence, and that the producer force of such a light pattern as we could see in midair is dual to the physical reality of the pattern. So to say, if in midair I were to see the pattern of light that corresponds to that which would reflect off of you, then in effect I would be witnessing you relative to myself, and experimentally there is congruence between the "you" as a pattern of light, and the "real" physical you.

So if we understand what artistic origin of these graphical effects is, is it legitimate to critique them?

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Mandrake · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:40 am Post subject:

more psuedo philosophy. It's a common trait to people that enjoy post-modern literature and are usually english majors of some sort. Mister Frosty used to spout similiar sorts of nonsense from time to time. It's basically all just intellectual hot air made to sound impressive but actually has no substance, mostly because of his innarute understanding of such things.

Like his whole things on substrings and planks.
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biggerUniverse · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 5:05 am Post subject:

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Bjorn · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

I actually thought it was quite an amuzing read.

tcaudilllg · Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:23 am Post subject:

Guys, I was trying to explain, from the perspective of the unconscious, why we see the effects we do in videogames, and why there is so little originality. I mean, look at Paladin's Quest: horrible graphics, weird music, strange style. And the reason we see those things as "horrible" and "weird" and "strange" is because our mind looks at it and realizes that it has no basis on logic, conscious or unconscious. To live you've got to know that you live, and you can only know that you are alive in a concrete world that allows you to have knowledge, don't you think? We look at Paladin's Quest, and see that things don't add up from an unconscious perspective of "completeness". Just like you hear a lie from somebody, and you know that they're leading you on, and you know what their intentions are, but you know in a way that you don't know how to put your finger on it, that you are correct in your assertion that you are being led on and lied to. Art is the same way: the mind pieces together the parts that are missing when you try to make something, and if you don't make it just so, then it doesn't seem real to you, and it doesn't seem real to everybody else. That is, I think, more than anything else, the mark of a talented artist: to be able to imagine something that is not real, and render it such that it seems real on its own terms.