Re: virus: Nursery Rhyme Memes

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:38:38 -0700


Joe E. Dees writes:

>Just as sounds can be located in a 3-D lattice comprised of
amplitude, frequency and timbre, sights can be located in a 3-D
lattice comprised of size, color and shape. Vision is, after all, a
single octave of wavelength, centered around green. This would
lead me to believe that if there are melodic viruses, there must be
eidetic image viruses as well. Joe

I would suspect that the movement of sounds through that 3-D lattice mirrors
the movement of objects throught our 3-D environment and has some basis
there.

But an important element in music is movement and change over the dimension
of time. I'm not sure what a visual equivalent to that change-over-time
would be for an image virus.

Hmmm, I think I'll go watch some TV and think about it.

-Prof. Tim