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Virtual Me, Virtual Myself, and Virtual I
I eventually had to ask myself the following question. Can I make a Virtual Me of myself? Somehow imitate the idiosyncratic
and illogical processes of my brain as I'm working with computers. Better yet to be more talent than me. Moving in this direction I learned that it helps to have a system where you have procedures to make many changes automatically. Some of these procedures should be similar to how my mind probably works. Chaos theory or a random number generator brings us closer. The use of such things had the promise of variations in visual dynamics I would not ordinarily think of. It takes me so long before I can find anything that clicks. The Virtual Me works much faster than me. That is, the time it takes for me to type in a parameter change, correct my mistakes to see what happens. Even functions and choice of objects can be made by the Virtual Me. It important to note that the Virtual Me has all of my software tools which are the special functions in AL. Other tools were developed over a period of fifteen years. They deal with the geometry of objects such as fragmentation and representation as lines or ribbons. There are special functions that make copies of objects and their positions in space, shaders dealing with surface properties, cameras, lighting and more. Remember, my objects also have behaviors.
The Supreme Advisor of Digital Art
I finally asked the Virtual Me to play with random numbers, chaos theory, snoise, message passing, copycat and anything that is illegal in
creating works of digital art. Perhaps there is some kind of secret underground activity in the computer world, which is necessary to create works of digital art.
It may take a sinister and evil spirit to do this. The Virtual Me has computer code that does everything wrong. With the Virtual Me
working the computer I can leave for the day. There is no doubt in my mind that it's best to have the Virtual Me in charge of creativity.
He's younger, smarter and full of energy so that his procedures and the creative process continue all night. In the morning I begin my
day with a review of what took place the night before. The Virtual Me also knows there is no single solution regarding the creation of digital art. I now watch the
Virtual Me making these decisions from a broader perspective. I find several hundred different solutions to the same problem.
At least one of them will click. When there is this click, then I say stop to the Virtual Me or wait and let me look at your script and
the parameters. How did you do that?? Now once I find the click then I have found something and the computer doesn't exist anymore.
It is no longer command lines and parameters to me.
I forget what I'm doing at a technical level because I finally know where I'm going. Everything becomes alive and exciting.
There is a feeling of something magical, poetic and even sensitive. Now I am a Picasso or a Pollack! Better yet,
the Supreme Advisor of Digital Art and Computer Animation!
-- Charles Csuri
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