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Military Open Simulator Enterprise Strategy Distributed Scene Graph Test

Over 90 of us signed up to dare, today, the limits of virtual worlds technology extensions. Kudos! Here are slideshows from today's first MOSES/INTEL/DSG experiment.

Quote of the Day: The cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) between US ARL-STTC and Intel Corp. is inked and signed. Today's scalability experiment represents the first of many joint experiments planned over the next year.

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“And so it is with God” ~ Pi

This post is in the blog journal for my digital memories – those words are something I needed to remember.

Yes, the drawing is of a lion but it’s what I have as a visual without having to do a new one.

I wanted to remember which story I preferred – I had forgotten.

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The U.S. Army's Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) is seeking people to roleplay with Intel and STTC (Simulation and Training Technology Center) for "User Scalability Experiment 1" on Friday, March 22 from 6 pm EDT to 8 pm EDT (3-5 pm SLT).

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MOSES Scalability experiment is accepting volunteers

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Spirit Sign: Ch’ing-Wa Sheng by XG

 

Finished this yesterday — It and the Spirit Signs Series have been dormant for quite a while. Time to get back to it then. Chop, chop…

Photo-manipulation. A tree frog visited the Sanctum (my studio) last year and spent the day with me on one of the porch shelves. The Frog Spirit Ch’ing-Wa Sheng is associated with healing and luck. Also, frogs as amphibians are associated with metamorphosis.

Since I am going through a self-directed process of transformation and healing, I like the idea of Ch’ing-Wa Sheng as a relevant spirit sign or at least an experience to remember. The signs, the signs, they are everywhere, lol!

Until next time…

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Deer by Driveway: wondering what we’re doing on its land…

Went to check on the skin a little while ago…

(Straddling Worlds 1)  I forgot to make a post when I first started working on it.  I shed some tears that day. You have to understand that I really am one of those people who doesn’t understand things until somehow they are experienced in a certain, usually tactile, way – it’s why I am an artist and choose to do sculpture.  Don’t get me wrong, I do understand the texture of “meat” but I suppose not in this way.

Yeah, I am not going to become a vegetarian any day soon… um, ever.  The sauce I made with minced venison was especially delicious – probably because I made it and now understood the preciousness of how I came to have it.  However, after handling a skin for the very first time I finally understood things about inter-connectedness, about the circle of life.  If you are a queasy person, stop reading now.

What’s on the inside of a deer skin is not much different from what’s on the inside of raw chicken just thicker, larger – flesh, fat – I could handle that.  It was the fur and the tail that got me…  The experience of the fur was one of awe – simply beautiful – an experience of the sublime. That was emotional in and of itself. I ran my hand back and forth over it. I was wearing thick, chemical resistant gloves but it was the visual. The smoothness, the perfect order of how the dark brown blended into white at the edges where I could see the many ticks that were still attached.  The first tears fell.

I thought of the picture [above] that I had taken maybe three weeks before as we drove up the driveway after a trip to the store.   It stopped and stared at us – not running away until, I guess, it got bored.  White-tailed deer.  I lifted the tail of the skin in my hand because I thought of the many times I stood transfixed – grateful to be able to have the experience of watching the white tufts disappear from view.  I never saw deer before coming here. Now I can get up in the morning and see a bunch of them through the bathroom window.

I looked at the underside of the tail for quite a while as I processed what I was in front of me. Let me tell you, there is nothing quite so grounding as seeing an anus removed from purpose.

Then I put the skin back in the water, closed the container and began to bawl.

A living being was dead – so I could eat.

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3-D Web is the set of internet technologies that put user browsers in an online, interactive 3D environment.

Unity is a cross-platform interactive development environment for games and applications distributed via mobile and web.

COLLADA is a standard interchange file format for interactive 3D applications.

Hot topic at today's MOSES Office Hours was a demonstration by Chris Collins of porting…

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Thanks to Sitearm for posting this. I was very excited about this development. I envision making NoumenArt Center available using MIAB [MOSES in a Box] and something like this. No viewer downloads = a more seamless web (and mobile!) experience for users/visitors. So, it would provide a secure, immersive environment with the only cost to NCAA being licensing, development and hosting. The only issue I see for future work would be enabling user content-creation. Essential for users to create objects within their own Singularity Sanctum and for visiting artists to mirror their TAO Haven residency virtually and... integrating avatar pre-selection (already possible in other grids). In any case, this is all prototype work focused on mobile tech at this point. Still... it's way cool!

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first feline

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Woke up aggravated this morning.

OK, I know there are some of you that will maintain that this is nothing new. However, there is a difference. I usually wake up without the desire to interact with, speak to, or see anyone else. That is not grumpy just necessary to my peace of mind when I first greet the world.

Aggravation increased as I was… yes, nagged is the word, about a deadline today. If after you sent 2 emails over the past week, you send me an email AND also send someone else an email to remind me about the deadline that most professors would have to wait until the last minute to complete because they probably had to extend the student deadline since the LMS* was friggin’ BROKE for days – you are nagging.**

In any case, I just finally realized the real reason I woke up aggravated. It was not directly because of teaching but did have something to do with it. I had been spending extra time fielding more emails than usual from students because of the broken LMS, which meant I had less time than usual to keep my mind balanced.

So… the panther had lifted his head and was staring at me.

The Panther:
I’ve had a few very clear dreams in my life [documented here-privately, meaning I'm the only one that can read those posts]. However, the short, share-able version of the most recent one is of the panther that has taken up residence at the door of my studio and watches over me. He is not frightening at all. Um, in the same way a bad storm is not frightening when you are safe inside. I know he won’t harm me since he only seems to get “aggravated” when I slack off on things – the most important things.

He is me, he makes sure I stay on track and… I would rather not see him angry.

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*LMS=Learning Management System. Used to deliver content for online courses. Thanks to my Editor

**Lest I forget – there was also a voice-mail. Maybe I would understand the nagging if a flat-lined LMS hadn’t caused a special situation and if in 16 semesters and however many courses that makes I had EVER missed this deadline.

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New Look: No more creamy crack

Rain today… Both relaxing & exciting. Relaxing because I’ve always loved the rain - storms especially – from the smell of the first drops on the earth to the feeling of the air being newly cleansed. Exciting because I’m collecting the rainwater for the process of tanning my first (deer) hide. I look forward to the hard work and certain monotony of fleshing, scraping, tanning/softening and the immersion in learning an ancient skill. We have well water here and it’s probably best to have the “softer” rainwater to get the best results.

I will achieve balance eventually – temper the inclination of the city girl who doesn’t even think about where her food comes from to at least being aware of the concept of nothing going to waste. [Venison stew coming soon.)

It is a (hopeless) hope that we as species can achieve some balance – as we rush headlong into a SciFi world – that we can also embody ancient spirituality.  At least in how we interact with nature. Will a transhumanist future at least hold on to some form of Panentheism – with a healthy respect for every part of nature and what may exist beyond our perceptions?

I don’t hold on to much hope for grand scale human understanding but I can at least hold on to the hope that I will continue to work toward my own understanding.

XG

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Personas Merge

It’s been a little over a year since I’ve spent any time on this blog. Besides having to deal with life changes in general, I just wasn’t sure what to do with my online persona(s).  Well, finally here in Kitely am going to try to merge hopefully cementing that Xhyra is a work of art – even if a (very) large part of what it is to be Tonietta Walters.

A major part? Yes.

Spiritually, Xhyra is the cleansed me – the ME me. In her I was able to find that part of myself that was undisturbed, elementally independent of societal opinions and able to remember what it was like to be a whole being in touch with the All That Is One.  In virtuality I found (again) Reality.

Xhyra is the part that will live on after Tonietta Walters is gone. What more can you ask of a work of art?

Anyway, watch this blog as personas merge.  I’m getting back on track with holding on to myself.

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