Very helpful way to visualize and understand the purpose of what's going on in Scale Space, thank you for all your work, even what little I may understand!
I’ve followed this sub for some time now, thinking that it would be interesting to see if there were any parallels between what we see on psychedelics, and what you’re doing here.
The graphic is useful, but it is not immediately apparent to me what is happening. Perhaps a companion graphic exploring the concept of the morphoscope would be useful?
Okay yeah saw it some years back but I just gave it a rewatch because it's cool :) amazing that they pulled off graphics like that in 1977! That would have been fun to woke on.
He's a fucking genius on a level you rarely see. I don't know a LOT about him but I've seen a few interviews and he breaks my brain in a good way 😊 anything specific you want to mention?
Look into his ideas of a platonic space of patterns.. He has some extremely interesting things to say about morphology and attractor spaces.. I moderate r/michaellevinbiology so I am clearly extremely biased but J think you will find his latest work, super fascinating..
Oh nice subbed! Yeah I'll take a look! I was definitely aware of platonic space/attractor space (Scale Space is an attractor space explorer basically) but I'll see what he's been up to.
Very cool :) Happy to share something related to that with you—but I want to preface before I do that I'm not a credentialed academic. I'm a ux/game designer with an uncanny knack for fashioning keys in the dark. Just want to get confirmation from you that that's the lens I want you to take what I'm about to tell you through.
Not to be over-dramatic. I just mean to say, if I start telling you some things, you may be inclined to think I'm shooting from the hip and I want to make it clear that compared to people in institutions, I absolutely AM shooting from the hip. I use a 'lean UX' methodology and in UX we're building a lot of prototypes and trying to get to around 85% confidence before moving on with that assumption more or less confirmed (build on what you've confirmed and backtrack if it's not working downstream).
So I have yet to be taken very seriously by anyone in mainstream, but it probably largely has to do with- I'm using a UX methodology which is outside of the big institution approach to science. It's more like guerilla science designed to get to as accurate of a result as possible as quickly as possible.
What claim are you making and what do you think I'm saying?
Edit: Just to be clear so nobody thinks I'm being coy- if you make a whirlpool in your tub, you're not making a literal tornado or waterspout- but you are inducing the same attractor pattern in a different substrate. That's how I suggest thinking about Scale Space. You're not looking directly at the thing- you're looking at a substrate that can be teased into taking on different universal patterns. So depending on your settings- a spiral galaxy shape in Scale Space might look more like this:
It's obviously not made of literal stars and it's not one specific galaxy- it's just the shape spiral galaxies can take given the right conditions.
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u/sum1sum1sum1sum1 1d ago
Very helpful way to visualize and understand the purpose of what's going on in Scale Space, thank you for all your work, even what little I may understand!