time as a method of coordination/synchronisation

time as a method of reaching new solutions
-going through the imaginary to extrapolate infomation applicable to the real.

time compared to perspective
-straight line perspective abstract of real (simplified so we can perform analysis)
-non-linear time abstract of real? (complicated in form)
-personal perception of time translated to mass perception of time (simplified in nature)

nature of linear time
-context is of linear time is time itself
-before and present segments give particular wisedom to after
-it is convenient to look at time as a linear progression since it bears directly applicable resemblence to our real time. The projection of immediate future events can be strongly related to present events and adjacent past events.
-however if we were to make correlations between several events of a particular nature (eg, change of architecture, change of government, change of cultural beliefs) we cannot limit our scope to a linear depiction of time.

First chapter of Perspective as symbolic form - Panofsky

Psychophysiological space: "perception does not know the concept of infinity; from the very outset it is confined within certain spatial limits imposed by our faculty of perception. And in connection with perceptual space we can no more speak of homogeneity that of infinity. p 30

perspective drawing - "expressions of ideal relations" p 30.

"there is a fundamental discrepancy between "reality" and its construction." p 31

objectively straight vs. subjectively curved. p 34, c.f. Kepler.


Last monday, the issue about producing population came up.
-a large group of people represent a large virtual population?
-a small group of people represent a large virtual population?
-a individual controlling a group of people? flocking? multi-controlled (like controlling an army in starcraft?)
-a individual responsible for producing a group of people? with/without ghosting? with ghosts + collision?
-the problem that is faced is a question of the best representation of real people.
in the case we take 30 people on a simulated scenario their reaction will be true for 30 people
then when we take a 2nd set of 30 people on the same scenario with the 30 re-instated as NPAs, the reaction of the 2nd set will be true for 60.
it continues that as we build up a population, the last 30 people will have acted in reaction to a population around them.
we could then phase out the initial redundant data (eg, the 1st set, 2nd set)
the problem then occurs: the 1st set would have chosen direct straight lines to exit. since such space was vacant. by removing them, we make a gap in a crowd which will attract a new set to "fill" the gap.


second chapter of perspective as symbolic form - Panofsky

Elaborates on "antique" angle perspective - one which projects onto a curve, rather than a plane (eg, linear perspective).
"The paradoxical phenomenon that so long as antique art makes no attempt to represent the space between bodies, its world seems more solid and harmonious that the world represented by modern art; but as soon as space is included in the representation, above all in landscape painting, that world becomes curiously unreal and inconsistent, like a dream or a mirage."
-p 42-43.
"Did antiquity have perspective?" or "Did antiquity have our perspective?"
-p 43.
reference to "Dasein" p 44.
""aesthetic space" and "theoretical space" recast perceptual space in the guise of one and the same sensation: in one case that sensation is visually symbolized, in the other it appears in logical form."
-p 45.