Inworldz Wizardry - The E8 Polytope

"Because the Wizard is a wizard."

Wizard Gynoid, mathematical muse, has managed another first: rezzing and linking a 7,153-prim object in Inworldz and setting it rotating. Without crashing anything, I might add.


Wizard Gynoid: The E8 Polytope is the most elegant, most sophisticated and complex geometrical object known to mathematicians. There is beauty in its elegant symmetry.

Miso Susanowa: ach its bootiful!

Wizard Gynoid: you think?

Miso Susanowa: ya I do ^_^



Wizard Gynoid: up until recently no one had seen it, because it had to be calculated using a super computer. Plus there's the multi-dimensional aspect to it. This is the 3D shadow of an 8-dimensional object, so it is only one "rotation" of that 8-dimensional object. It happens to be the most elegantly symmetrical rotation, because it shows all 240 vertices points, plus there is a "tunnel" that runs through the object vertically, surrounded by concentric circles of vertices points.



Miso Susanowa: You've been working on them in VWs for how long?

Wizard Gynoid: I've been working on the E8 Polytope in Virtual Worlds since 2008, when I did the Rezzable Visions show. That was a much simpler version; in fact a copy of that is on the ground on my Wizard sim here in Inworldz. That one is also linked into one object and set rotating, but it's only about 1,400 prims. This one must be some kind of record...

Wizard Gynoid: and you saw how fast and how flawlessly that rezzed using Phlox

Miso Susanowa: Yes, it was amazing after watching the Klien bottle assemble twice [in Second Life] - that took over an hour.

Wizard Gynoid: This wouldn't be possible in Second Life.

Miso Susanowa: Didn't you also have the E8 somehow rezzed into RL crystal or something?

Wizard Gynoid: Yes, I had this laser etched into a crystal cube. Which you can purchase as a matter of fact.

Miso Susanowa: annnddd... link pls? :)

Wizard Gynoid: http://www.bathsheba.com/crystal/e8/

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Watch the video to be amazed at the speed with which the Phlox script engine calculates and assembles this incredibly-complex object (but really, take the You Tube link, as embedding compresses the video here and it's nasty with artifacts; at You Tube, raise the quality to 480p)

The E8 Polytope in Inworldz
Wizard Gynoid
(with script consultation by Desdemona Enfield)

Link to You Tube video (better quality)

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Video: Three-Ring Circus

updated: The Director's Cut

You Tube Link (better viewing)

All this began well before the last few weeks: last February Wizzy and I were poking around the LEA sims, which had been announced to great fanfare by M and then kinda... were pending... for awhile. So we wondered what was up with them, and having some idle time on our hands we took a map TP there.

We found the beginnings of what became Avatar Games, and since rez was on we left Bryn some of her dahls and took some photos - it was kind of a love-tease to Bryn Oh and Rose Borchovski. Honestly, it was a goofy homage or whatever. In the same vein I did this photo. I mean, they're dolls. You play with them.

It could have just as well been Rose's Susas if they were dolls. I can't begin to remember how many times I saw the "Phillip Linden Noob" dressed up and places in crazy places.

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After all, we didn't make the dahls; they were given freely by Bryn and Wizzy and I are just wacky. Since the dahls are high-prim (68 prims each) the LEA sandbox is about the only practical place to make such a thing, and that's what we thought the LEA sandbox was for, so we used it.

Read any darker meaning into this you want; the circus is just a weird play dollhouse. We played with the dahls before and had fun; like playing Barbies (especially because we can make all the props and outfits, not have to buy them).


You can read Crap Mariner's blog and see some great photos he took on Flickr.

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I've posted another small video of the build "Storming Heaven" done for Betty Tureaud's 'Tower of Babel' in Inworldz.

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Machinima, UWA last call, Art110 and friends

CITY

Link to You Tube: better resolution and size

I finally got around to filming CITY, which was first created in early 2009 and shown at the Brooklyn Is Watching open-rez area, where it remained for an (unusual) 6 weeks and was written about by Siri Woodget (who took fantastic pictures). CITY won Honorable Mention for Immersion in the January 2010 round of the UWA 3D Art & Design Challenge, and was shown once more at Pirats Art Network gallery in November 2010 (where my good friend Apmel amazingly bought one and has written about it several times). I even wrote a dab about it myself.

CITY is filled inside with light and movement and takes some exploration and some forebearance for the integral sound. Here is the display card for CITY:

"I lived in Los Angeles for 18+ years, most recently on Hollywood Blvd. & LaBrea, just one block catty-corner from the famous Mann's Chinese Theatre and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Los Angeles is a stage show; a Hollywood production. The city looks lovely and shiny from a distance or on television, but that reality is lived by less than 1% of its population. Most of us live in a "behind the scenes" reality of filthy streets, unresponsive or missing police, no air conditioning, crime, mini-mall blight, high unemployment, racism, virtual slavery (undocumented but useful workers) and incredible noise. This city is never quiet. It is never still. It is not 'Baywatch' or 'The OC.' Everyone doesn't live in Santa Barbara or have a pool.

This piece is about illusion being just as much a part of "real life" as anything "illusionary" in SL.

The sound for this piece was recorded out my own apartment window between 12-3am on various occasions; at times the sound in my apartment exceeded 130db! The side photos were taken in my apartment and outside it. The floor and ceiling are overlays of traffic patterns on the all-encompassing freeways, as are the flowing parts of the "star."

To experience CITY fully, please right-click the glowing star and SIT; Mouselook is recommended."

I am very pleased to have learned enough machinima to help you experience CITY the way that I feel it. I have entered this machinima in the MachinimUWA IV : Art of the Artists contest.

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Note: because of some of the comments I have read on machinima pages, I'd like to clarify that except for the two whiteout transitions to the wall photograph sets, there are no special effects in this machinima - what you see is what you can experience yourself from inside CITY, especially in Mouselook mode.

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CITY: Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the machinima consists of the soundscape of CITY mixed in to an adaptation of a 138-track soundpiece of mine called "The Angel Is Aerodynamically Sound" which I have worked on now for two years. I have no keyboards, so everything is hand-done, note by note, sample by sample, in a sequencing program. It features many world instruments and voices.

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Big Winter

Big Winter is now showing at the last UWA 3D Open Art Challenge *sniffle*

I cannot begin to describe what Jayjay, Quadrapop and FreeWee Ling have done for the arts community through this program in three years. Beyond myself, I know that they have encouraged so many artists to show for the first time and brought much of the arts community in Second Life together to meet, view each other's work and to have a rallying point for community.

I am very sad it is coming to an end.

Corcosman Voom has also taken a nice photo of Big Winter.

PS: if you right-click on the figure, you will sit on the rocks and stare at her; good for photos :)

SLurl: Big Winter @ UWA

my good friend Apmel has written two very nice posts about Big Winter:

Heartbreaking Cooling [when she showed at Kelly Yap Galleries]

At the last UWA 3D Challenge, where he has awarded me the unofficial Gallery Villa Apmel Award in a tie with ush Underwood's Popeye the Sailor's Heritage ^_^

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Art 110

My students from Cal State University at Long Beach's Art 110 Virtual Art Galleries program are busy building the galleries for their artists; I can't wait to see them done!

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... and finally, just cuz, here's Trill Zapatero as the Magical Ballerina Horse...



... Wizzy Gynoid demonstrating her mastery of zazen by sitting on Rod Humble's Sparkle Pony Linden Bear...


... and finally, one of Lalo Telling's friends sent him this scan from a real menu:

Miso to go!! ^_^

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