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- 1. Manifesting Futures Monument An Improbable Monument by Frances Ting
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Editor's Notes
- Introduction
- Conventional Monuments
- Visualization of Lady Justice as a 3D holographic display at Union Square
- Conventional, accepted ways of doing things were once new… if old methods no longer work for us, we can make new methods that do.
- My improbable monument was based on these three interrelated concepts, that are personally significant to me and I think, appropriate to share in our current society.
- First, ideals and values. Sociology tells us that environmental adaptations, historical factors, social and economic evolution, and contact with other cultural groups are what shape how we think. This monument allows everyone’s input, It allows us to change our mindframes because it doesn’t keep us stuck in obsolete ways of thinking. American ideals and values is a pretty big concept, let alone talking about global ideals and values. By expressing a variety of values and ideals through physical representation for all to see, will allow us as as a city to become more aware, accepting and unified.
- Next, the concept of time… I’ve always had a difficult time with how I was taught to regard time and what I’ve felt inwardly about it. In school, in church, in society, it’s implied that time started at some point, stuff happened in sequence and then there’s an end (or maybe like a ray, it doesn’t end at all and goes into infinity). This excerpt is a translation from a Buddhist text called the fundamental wisdom of the middle way. It’s a sort of koan to think about: paradoxically the past, present and future are one, but yet they are independent of each other. Manifesting Futures is about using the present to shape the future. What we think now paves the way for how our merely potential futures will turn out. I’m not saying to forget the past, but rather to stop dwelling on it. The achievements from the past, if they have any significance, will have a current effect. And the mistakes should be learned from and if possible, corrected.
- In relation to time, is what I feel binds the three concepts together, and that is the holographic universe theory.
- A holographic model of the universe implies that we are all connected, all a part of a big ‘pattern.’ Like a hologram, when one part of it is altered, every single part of the hologram is altered. Take a snowflake for instance– every part of the snowflake carries the pattern of the bigger snowflake. If the topmost tip was removed, all other parts of the bigger snowflake pattern would also lose the topmost tip. In relation, Manifesting Futures is about coming face to face with what we value internally, examining it, discarding it if it is not necessary or appropriate by letting it go into the archives, or continually displaying it if all are in agreement with the tenet being emphasized. The significance is, say one person feels compassion is an important value to consider… by us, as a collective, allowing and even encouraging him/her express that and us seeing the representation, we are all changed for the better because of it.
- Visualization of what the operating system of the underground public computer may look like. On one side, the main menu of monuments, on the other, a preview of the chosen monument to be displayed.
- An actual Video Wall for NASA and a 9X HD6400 video server
- Taken from Maslow’s heirarchy of needs, this can potentially be a way to categorize monument types available for browsing.
- This video is a demonstration of the actual 3d holographic display developed as a collaboration between USC and the U.S. Army. This video is from 2007 and since then, they’ve developed it so that it is capable of being utilized in live teleconferencing, though limited to one face at a time. This new development is what I have based the 30 second messages on. In the future, the monument could be potentially used for things like New Years’ Eve celebrations, important announcements and State of the Union addresses, among other things…
- Recently USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies developed a new display system that overcomes some of the classic limitations of 3d displays. This display is autostereoscopic, requires no special viewing glasses, omnidirectional, allows viewers to be situated anywhere around it, and multiview, producing a correct rendition of the 3d objects with correct horizontal parallax and vertical perspective for any viewer around the display. Applications include 3d teleconferencing, interaction with virtual humans and immersive 3d environments. The display consists of a standard PC, a high-speed DLP video projector, a spinning anisotropic mirror and FPGA circuitry to decode specially rendered DVI video signals (see Figure 1).
- The 3D display works by projecting high-speed video onto a rapidly spinning mirror. As the mirror turns, it reflects a different and accurate image to each potential viewer. The images are projected at over 5000 frames per second, resulting in 360-degree views with 1.25 degree separation up to 15 updates per second. In order to achieve high-speed projection, we use a specially coded DVI video signal. Instead of rendering a color image, each projector takes a 24-bit color frame of video and displays each bit sequentially as separate 1-bit black and white frames.
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