Gearing of the universes There's other stuff going on here; I don't remember all of it. Most of the large objects from duplications of the skysphere are revolving. Later the skysphere was revolving and the texture changed again; I didn't want my face in the sky anymore, I wanted Yamantaka's. But the image I think are fairly amazing now that the sphere and Alan Dojoji, who is Nikuko, are interacting. So things are going on in space that are fairly gravity-less, in some sort of freefall, although there's an object at the bottom of the skysphere which has been there for months and continues to remain in place. That seems to have weight. Weight of course is artificial but the skysphere appears as a sort of satellite. It's not, but it appears so. And if it were a satellite then an object in it wouldn't be free-floating, which it's not. Still, it's the only thing like that; the other objects float happily, as they do nearer the ground - as do the duplications and for that matter remnants of the skyspheres, all within the exhibition space proper, although extending upward and into the grounds in front of the building, some near the seawall but well above it. That's a feature of this particular virtual world, this floating - not to mention what appears to be a kind of perpetual, frictionless, energyless, motion of all the objects, some of which have been in a kind of hysteria, symptomology, for upwards of eleven weeks. Well, the motion isn't perpetual, of course; it's the result of client/server activity, protocols, code, programming, callups, and so forth. And that is fed from the electric grid, which draws on nuclear and coal energy for the most part - the motion, in other words, is the result of resource consumption. The energy is relatively miniscule, especially compared to the enormous amounts of energy it would take to move what seems to be close to a thirty-story apparatus, day and night, without monitoring or a caretaker. Of course I'm a caretaker of sorts, but I'm out of the space, have always been so. In any case, what you would see, should you choose to visit the space, is something even more marvel- ous than before, and you'd get to walk or fly around all of this without my presence, or anyone else's, no interference here - http://www.alansondheim.org/ full jpgs http://www.alansondheim.org/full.mp4 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
