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[1] From: "Rabkin, Eric" <esrabkin@umich.edu> (65)
Subject: RE: 16.643 Visualizing dynamic experience of time?
[2] From: Mickie Husted <mickiesstory@yahoo.com> (9)
Subject: Re: Visualizing dynamic experience of time? (fwd)
[3] From: Stephen Ramsay <sramsay@uga.edu> (13)
Subject: Re: 16.643 Visualizing dynamic experience of time?
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:49:01 +0100
From: "Rabkin, Eric" <esrabkin@umich.edu>
Subject: RE: 16.643 Visualizing dynamic experience of time?
One way to create such an animation is by using a simple spotlight mask
in Flash. To see an example and a tutorial, visit
http://virtual-fx.net/vfx/tutorial/tutorial11_92_20020103.php or
http://virtual-fx.net/vfx/tutorial/tutorial11_98_20020103.php. BTW, in
_Slaughterhouse-Five_, Vonnegut's non-human Tralfamadoreans see all time
at once like a mountain range and just look along it; their viewpoint is
contrasted with that of the human protagonist, Billy Pilgrim.
Vonnegut's handling of the difficulties humans have overcoming their
time-bound senses may be suggestive in this instance.
Good luck!
Eric
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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 643.
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:00:47 +0100
From: Jan Christoph Meister <jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Visualizing dynamic experience of time
22:47
28.04.2003
Dear Colleagues,
I wonder wether anybody has ideas, information, examples, links etc.
with regard to the following:
I want to visualize the dynamic experience of time (to be more specific,
the experience of time as mediated by narratives. But that's not really
important here.)
By dynamic I mean that if a perceiving subject in a world W moves along
a time line from t1 to tn, he/she will at any given 'point in time' (=
position on the absolute time line) have different information available
as to what time phenomena lie/ occur in his/her subjective (and hence
relative) future, past and present. So the subject's model of how events
and phenomena are temporally located in W and how time on a whole is
structured in W will continuously change.
An added difficulty is that the perceiving subject will only be able to
accumulate information about the time indexes of phenomena in a step by
step fashion (meaning that a certain amount of time data will be
available at t1, and that the additional time data available at t2 might
then totally change the entire picture.) Moreover, some of the
information he/she gets will be absolute ("x occurs at 14.00 GMT on
28.04.03"); other information will be relative ("X occurs after Y; Y
will occur after Z").
I discussed this already with Willard who suggested some sort of
animated visualization. I'd be most grateful for any futher ideas!
Chris
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:50:12 +0100
From: Mickie Husted <mickiesstory@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Visualizing dynamic experience of time? (fwd)
Dear Jan-
The University of South Carolina in Columbia has a
listserv similar to our philosophical, but their list
is for for quantum studies. Many physicists, chemists,
and other scientists subscribe to this list.
This question about time is very interesting and I
think they might like playing around with it. Would it
be okay if I forwarded it to them?
Mickie
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:51:11 +0100
From: Stephen Ramsay <sramsay@uga.edu>
Subject: Re: 16.643 Visualizing dynamic experience of time?
You are in luck. Check out Johanna Drucker and Beth Nowviskie's
*Temporal Modelling* project -- still in progress, but more or less
precisely what you are imagining:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/time/time.html
Steve
-- Stephen Ramsay Assistant Professor Department of English University of Georgia email: sramsay@uga.edu web: http://cantor.english.uga.edu/ PGP Public Key ID: 0xA38D7B11
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