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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Research into the alien prims, MacGrid
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:34:50 -0400 (EDT)
Research into the alien prims, MacGrid http://www.alansondheim.org/research.mp4 I went back into the MacGrid and was able to locate and stabilize the alien prim complex that accompanied the configuration I had created in the MacGrid. The complex contained a mesh - please note - which was _not_ duplicated, and the duplicated prims were, themselves, only partially formed, embryonic. After I stabilized the complex, I increased its glow to 50% - in other words, giving it characteristics that the original objects did not possess. I tried at the same time to reposition, rebake, stretch, etc. the complex, but this proved impossible. The last two segments demonstrate that inherent glow of the alien complex now rivaled that of the setting sun, and in darkness, that the complex now behaved as a moon or satellite to the main objects which I had created. Note that the alien complex is only partially under my control, that it follows the kernel only of the objects I created, and that it appears to be in a constant state of examining them. Please note as well that this research was _carried out on the level of prim manipulation,_ not on the level of the underlying codework. What fascinates me is the ability to carry out examinations of this sort, which produce their own extrinsic surface phenomenologies, in the place of a codework whose relationship to the surface is tight, but whose effects are based on epistemological transformations.