Time +1 = Santa

When working in a 3D application, one needs to effortlessly consider spatial and temporal relationships in order to be successful.

lots of people can draw or design. understanding composition, layout, form and color theory isn't tricky at all. it's the relationship of these "scripts" in Z space and over time that sends people into the brick wall.

In a way, an artistic understanding of xyz +1 has been my career. Now there's talk of a hidden extra dimension. temporal. and I'm assuming spatial. my excitement upon reading this news certainly sent me beyond the 3rd dimension! (zing!) I guess I'm going to be going through a bunch of tutorials soon! (zing! zing!)

Anyway, I just love all this stuff. I've grown to find comfort in knowing we don't have a fucking clue about...well, anything at all. OK, we have a clue. But do we really? I don't have to know because I won't know. Not anytime soon.

Besides, what we know changes. Think of all the brilliant equations we follow as Truth that will one day be completely disregarded and considered whimsical nonsense. Sketches on a cave wall.

Science and knowledge is not a constant. Not even close. But it's the closest thing we have in my opinion. Tomorrow is coming and it's going to make today look like yesterday. When you step back and take a good SlaughterHouseFive look at things, we're right in the middle. Or beginning. Or end. If it's all happening at the same time, there is no beginning or end. Just now. And now. And right now as well. And also now again. But then as well. And also there's the thing that is happening now.

But me, I don't really buy it. Not discrediting it, I just prefer to think linearly. Or at least in a circle. Or an expanding and compressing linear type thing. I like to think that way because that is the world that I SEE. A fire has a beginning and an end. A tree begins and ends. Seemingly. But what I KNOW tells me the atoms that make up the fire may very well move on to make a tree and then maybe a human and then when the human expires maybe one of those atoms helps form a t-shirt that has a picture of a tree on fire.

Another dimension would really make things interesting. man, I hope we start getting into such things before I die. I want to fill that Thing. The Thing that some fill with religion or imagination. I just can't do that anymore. In a way, I'd love to fill the Thing with religion or spirituality again. It was awesome. But for some reason, once I crossed the line, there's no going back to that resource. Like my respect for Santa before and after the moment I asked my mom if he was real. I can't tell if it's because I've lost Imagination/hope or that I've gained Imagination/reason. Another dimension would be like seeing a new magic trick or something. And I haven't seen a magic trick since I found out that it was my uncle with a fake white beard and red suit.