Enzymind Labs

dealing with trivialities of mortal existence this morning. Shopping, laundry etc.

Got my ebay microscope today. Its sort of a mixed bag but it may work well if i can get a few replacement components. It appears that the ocular is not the original one hence the 60x and 100x designations on the same microscope. So at this point I'm assuming the ocular was from a similar type of inspection microscope that had a 10x objective. And so the current microscope is a 60x.

naw I wasn't saying extrapolate into NEW dimensions -just fill up more of the dimension that you already have since they won't be fully filled by the picture data alone. Just a way to maximize the search space available. but since you bring it up its intersting to think about extrapolating dimensionality too. so say there is a dimension which describes the fractal dimension of a pic from 0-3d in theory couldn't the dimensionality be increased by extrapolating the number corresponding to fractal dimension past the known values 4,5,6,etc. Not sure what a 5.76 fractal dimension would mean but i think its theoretically possible. One problem is if each dimensions is infinite then how to you determine the start and endpoints of the visible color series -Make it cycle infinitely? and how to logically coregister abstract dimensions -deatals that i will leave to the cobler and tailor. might have to anchor all the dimentions to the actual images in the data base to maintain relativity.

Photosynth is a new image processing technology from Microsoft that takes a collection of images (say, of a famous location), analyzes them for similarities & rebuilds the location in virtual space for the user to fly though, zooming in on details, panning around like a 3D Hockney piece. Video of how it works here. posted by lilbrudder at 10:02 AM PST - 41 comments

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visual spatial learning and education methods that integrate right brain functioning may be critical for the next generation of scientific breakthoughs where current methods have stalled or been unsuccessful.

added this to about 'enzymind '

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Enzymind is focusing on using right brain 'bisociative' visualization methods to better utilize left brain 'associative' logical functions in order to aid research into one of the 21st centuries most pressing scientific topics: complex systems.

bisociative: intersection of two separate domains of knowledge.

    Found these depth of field composites that I put together using Space:

ant_1_composite_b

ant_2_composite_b

ant_3_composite_b

from the same series of PSR's photos that he used to make these composites using CombineZ. The Space ones look pretty good side by side, except for background blanks and some edge artifacts. I was careful not to include some planes that had detail not relevant to the ant subject. They still can be improved, and I had to do it in pieces (couldn't fit all planes of the full image in memory).

Misc notes on creativity

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kostler's bisociation and creativity

Brain based visual research

four (I's) steps of creativity

been thinking about/trying to observe a couple aspects of vision

1.) closed-eye imagery.  It seems as though I can perceive, when I close my eyes in a dark room, what appears to be rgb noise.  That is across the field of view, about the diameter of a pinhead at arms reach, what appears to be mostly red and green, noise. rapid, maybe around 10hz (alpha?) flickering like looking at white noise on a tv.  That's the canvas.  Superimposed on that, is some kind of imagery.  They tend to be glowing, drifting shapes.  Frequently the are the result of after-image effects of looking at something bright, but if I've been in a dark room fr a while, just closing my eyes, tends to -if I focus my attention on it- 'patterns' -show lots of expanding squares/diamonds. Lines.  Maybe a mandelbrot like glob every now and then.  All these thing usually fuzzy edges, and when i try and 'look' at the or center them in my field of view, they tend to move in erratic directions.

Been playing around with some indexing software from ibm called marvel .  I've been marveling at how much i don't like it, how little information it provides after doing index/sort, and the vagueness of the interface.  Might come in handy for something I just don't know what -maybe as a thumbnail creation tool.  Maybe give it a try if you feel like but start with like 50 photos, default is 1000 and takes a long time. 

What the hell is this 'we will even do all the tedious research for you..." maybe I should hire them to figure out general aspects of self organizing principles in the natural world. This add showed up in my gmail account due to the text serching data mining 'feature' of gmail. not sure if i like that.

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Wow those excerpts on number theory/aesthetics are VERY interesting thanks for posting that. I have been considering changing the enzymind slogan from 'online complex systems laboratory' to 'welcome to the edge of chaos' but I still want to keep a certain tone of scientific rigor or else I think the edge of the concept will be lost. Number theory is one of those many topics that have caught my interest while exploring various areas of math. The most striking area of number theory for me are fibonacci series/spirals. Also the whole concept of 'imaginary numbers' is really deep and I got a little taste of if from that dvd i mentioned which covers many of the big conceptual areas of math.