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by RevRal 3703 days ago
Thanks... yeah, I'm trying to figure out the best way to present it on here. It might all actually be a bit hard to describe without them. For instance, the special binary I had to develop to overcome some technical issues.

http://i.imgur.com/p4pr8b9.jpg
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asimuvPR 3703 days ago
That's interesting. Mind explaining it using the picture?
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RevRal 3703 days ago
When I was envisioning this, I was imaging it being an expansive collective of binary, as though the connected computers create a "sheet" of information.

There was an issue with binary not creating a repetitive pattern when plotted. Sorry, it's one of those things where I remember going in with the problem and coming out with the solution and revisiting my process is on my to-do list. But basically, to solve the problem the digits from the decimal point needed to be taken into account. Makes this some kind of mixed radix system.

Ultimately, a part of this whole creation requires a non-resistant symmetry (meaning that redundancy checks naturally occur) between computers. I figured this out by basically giving all binary a numerical value. The dots to the right of the axis of that picture would be inverted numbers and colors. This is the automatic checksum between computers, entries should add to zero.

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asimuvPR 3703 days ago
So a generic binary format that multiple machines can write / read as if it was a simple file? Or am I wrong?
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RevRal 3703 days ago
Sounds like you get it! Honestly, what I really want to see is long strings of binary projected as 2d or 3d abstractions from the raw binary, by a variety of means. I really wanted to account for leading up to this, these were also considerations for the binary format. The idea is to test a variety of ways that 1d binary can be replotted in 2d or 3d in a virtual space, then examine the 2d or 3d space to see what sort of weird computations it does! It might be possible to isolate groups of binary that interact and do specific things. The idea is to emulate a computational space that does not decay! I'm inspired by the idea that computers don't have to work by exactly the same principles we have always used.

Basically, I want to see every computer become a complex transistor.

I'm a fan of the book Permutation City :).

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asimuvPR 3703 days ago
I can't promise anything but let's chat over email. It would be nice to simply bounce ideas off each other. :)
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