Monday, November 19, 2007

Pattern Vision

A pattern is a simple concept, anything more than once. Any item that has a quality that appears more than one time. Patterns are normally visualized where the item that appears more than once has the exact qualities as the other pattern particles. This, however, is the only option when there is one quality that can be contributed to a pattern. If the only quality of an item is its shape, then that item only has one quality that can ever be contributed to a pattern. But what is the point of an idea if it cannot be realistically translated to a situation that can be described accurately through real world scenarios? There is no physical item that only has one quality that can be created into pattern formation. Think of a scene in any metropolitan/downtown area, there are so many different shapes, colors, textures, sounds, and arrangements of shapes that for there to be such a strong collection of possible pattern outlets in such a small place, almost (if not every) item has to have several possible pattern outlets. One item in our metropolitan scene can be the base of thousand of different active and dynamic patterns. We have found that if an item has only one quality then it is acceptable for a pattern to be composed of only quality. While this completely possible, it creates an incredibly tiring pattern as when there is only one quality to a pattern particle, the pattern can only have one quality to it. Quality and quantity are things that have now become completely synonymous with each other, yet they are descriptors of two incredibly different ideas. If the particles of a pattern have the same qualities, they are not required to have the same quantities. This seems like an obvious statement, as patterns are based on repetition and numbers, however the pattern does not need to come from an item multiplying in quantity, it can come from the item splitting into different sections of itself, disintegrating into a larger pattern through smaller particles of itself. Patterns grow in every direction, and patterns can exist in every setting.

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