Hypertoons on 3DTV

I've usually shared hypertoon reveries as a flat screen experience, as if on an HDTV.  You'll find an earlier blog post on LCD aesthetics.  However we need not confine our imaginations to such prosaic devices.  Won't 3DTV be here soon?

When you imagine a pixelated surface, do you think of squares or hexagons?  We can tell a lot about your personality based on that, just kidding.  As when tiling a bathroom floor, we have our reasons for going with one or another tiling pattern.

Space comes with "tiling" patterns too.  Instead of pixels, we have voxels?

When you imagine a voxelated volume, do you think of cubes or rhombic dodecahedrons?  I'd say a majority will think of cubes and don't know much about that other thingamajiggy.

However rhombic dodecahedrons are more neighborly in the sense of sharing more faces.  Cubes share six faces with neighbors (why we call them hexahedra).  Dodecahedrons (of this space-filling voxel kind) share twelve.

As soon as you start filling space with some repeated shape, you're likely to think "honeycomb" or even "lattice" whereas an engineer might think "space frame".  Different professions teach different words, but we all know what it means to "brick a volume" with some shape, even if said shape has all diamond faces.

The sculptors at Flextegrity Labs, the informal name for your builders' skunkworks, know all about modeling sculptures in 3D, given C6XTY and its progenitors came from a 3D imagination in the first place, via CAD and industrial processing.

Having the CCP (another name for our lattice, not a political party) pre-implemented in software, with each icosahedron or ball position selectively illumined, is a kind of 3DTV in its own right.

The sculpture supports its own weight.

We don't need to wait, to experiment with sound and light shows.  Our gallery was in the nightclub district, after all.

Who knows, perhaps 3D hypertoons could be in our future?

Or shall we say 4D, switching to the Bucky brand, wherein the Tetrahedron anchors our sense of "dimension" in a four directional volume, our "space"?  We've learned that "namespaces" coexist and that an either/or mindset may be unnecessary in the long run.

So sure, 4D it is.  Too.

Ramanujan Rocks!

You know me, I'm back to harping on some abstract stuff, wanting to make aesthetics matter.  Today I was talking about Ramanujan saying, in response to a Medium story:

Good one, got me thinking of the ballads, plays, sagas and epics that have mathematics in them. I favor bringing in some Ramanujan because now we have arbitrary precision software available (beyond calculators), so why not check out some of his wild convergences to thousands of places?

There's a lot of history (storytelling) behind just how far we can push our algorithms, to how many digits of accuracy. From Al Khwarizmi to Wolfram. 

We may not have proved why a given convergence works (some of Ramanujan's were famously opaque to proof) yet we're free to test them in empirical reality... 

https://archive.org/details/Ramanujan (actual ballad about the guy)

You probably know what I'm thinking of right?

Self Booting Startup

Everyone believes in the dream of booting, as we somewhat do that through being born, and we hope making it to adulthood.  All from a couple of cells.  We intuit that organizations work somewhat the same way, to develop critical mass and then take off somehow.  We explore for the right business model designs, the right chemistry.

Philanthropy for Everyone

The Coffee Shops Network is a philosophy based in the idea of Philanthropy for Everyone, meaning no matter how meager your means, you deserve opportunities to commit to projects that express your values in some way.  That your contribution might be amplified through higher scores, within some exciting game playing experience, is an added bonus, one could say thrill, giving you that added "chance to win big" possibility.

For those used to a Video Lottery, perhaps state permitted and used to raise funds for the state, winning the lottery is akin to having a fortune to divvy up among your lucky recipients. Their job, as a partial consequence, is to live up to their potential and prove their worth to investors.  However charitable ventures are not designed to reward with interest.  They're aiming to achieve specific results.  Successful projects tend to come with metrics:  ways to evaluate their success.

Gambling for Charity

Say I walk into a Coffee Shop and buy a bagel.  The purchases feed my gaming account, which I may pay into outright.  Once I've chosen a game, I have some ability to amplify more gift in accordance with performance, and some games help build skills I need anyway, such as typing faster, or recognizing rare birds.  I buy more coffee and play some more.  I rack up winnings for beneficiaries.  I am literally a hero.  The psychological benefits of giving to charity are well known.

You might object that I'm actually describing a lot of church operations here, in giving opportunities to amplify prayers with the right add-ons.  Philosophy has always been a close neighbor of the religions, given its focus on ethics and aesthetics.  Believing your contributions are actually doing some good requires some trust in the framework.  Do you actually see the crypto-currency going over the wire?  What assurances do you have that the transaction has gone through?

Clearly for a Coffee Shops Network to build out, it has to partake of solutions pioneered by FinTech, giving organizations ways to channel some token of value in ways that make sense to the power brokers.  If you're thinking "someone, somewhere is making money" you're probably thinking in terms of whether your generosity is being exploited or taken advantage of.  Possibly so.  In other words, we're back to whether you have trust in the organization. Those organizations that fall apart over time seem too much like pyramids.

Your Profile

Don't forget your profile matters.  Your record as a donor of winnings, a contributing player, may come back to haunt you, and take you into "deleted tweet" territory.  The social media aspect of backing effective projects is worthy of much exploration.  You may well develop imitators, but then some designs may give you backers.  In committing their winnings to your kitty, you get all that much more to forge ahead with.

Geometry of the Virus

Hypertoons Again (Autobio)

Hypertoon treatment would be ideal for communicating Synergetics, because of the partially overlapping scenarios configuration.

A hypertoon is like a spaghetti ball of short cartoons (animations) terminating in switch points where smooth segues (transitions) may occur.

Synergetics suggests lots of animated sequences, such as an octahedron turing into a "boat" and spiralling forward or backward ("arcing").  Does this scenario serve any useful scientific purpose?  As a Platonist, I'm just following the tetrahelix thread.

Another transformation is of course the Jitterbug, at the center of the Concentric Hierarchy as a unifying "bow tie Universe" pulsation device (one could say).  Telling the story of the Jitterbug and its "station stops" is traversing a kind of backbone, from which many side stories branch out.

In more recent autobiographical videos I talk about a Pycon in Washington, DC where I was scheduled to talk more about hypertoons. I actually did get to give such a talk, at a different Pycon in DC, if memory serves. Dawn joined me on that trip. When was that?

From LinkedIn (replying to an inquiry)

Kirby Urner  Today, 11:41 AM  [one typo fixed]

I have an open source business plan that investors technically don't need me to implement, however I offer consulting around these plans nevertheless. I'm referring to a "gambling for charity" model akin to church bingo or state lottery except the beneficiary is picked from a list supported by the house, a cause or charity. The player has nothing to lose and gains by keeping a public profile (= reputation). You'll see models approximating this one out there already. I brand around a specific decor (a look and feel). Anyway, it's all out there. Thanks for asking. Kirby Urner
4dsolutions.net Oregon Curriculum Network (OCN) Coffee Shops Network (CSN)

Flextegrity Instead of Rebar?

The art of mixing and pouring concrete is not the whole story, as rebar is integral to the design. Without rigid reinforcement, the hardened sludge has little value as a load-bearing material, but is conventional rebar the only option?

With Flextegrity, based on the CCP matrix, the designer has more control over both rigidity and volumetric displacement.  As cinder blocks prove, there's plenty of space, for space, in many an over-built design.

Consider C6XTY, made of rigidly interconnected hollow balls.  The total displacement is less than 74% of the total space (the pure CCP figure) but how much less?  A lot more than what rebar would occupy. 

A savings of 50% in concrete, while adding strength, might be just the ticket, given the right truss.

What schools of engineering are studying the combination of concrete and lattice trussworks? 

Is your construction company in the loop?

Here at Coffee Shops Network (CSN), we specialize in hypertoon reveries (spaghetti balls of connected scenarios) and the CCP (= FCC) is a kind of homebase for our explorations.

Of course we follow C6XTY, a set of stories, and Flextegrity, given our specialty.

Thanks to Lattice Gallery in Portland, Oregon for popping up during the holidays and showing Portlanders some of the possibilities.