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The basic idea behind an attractor is that a dynamic system will tend toward certain states as time goes on. The simplest form of an attractor is the point attractor. Take a normal pendulum, it doesn't matter where you release it from, it will always come to rest in the same position, perpendicular to the ground. This state is the attractor for the system.
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Simple, now consider all the words that exist and the minds of those banging away at story-lines and characters over time. Surely some of these must be strange attractors, meant to exist! That's why some say the Matrix was so brilliant and yet simple, why didn't I think of that first. Kind of like the idea on Maths, is it discovered or invented? Are Scripts the same way?
:hat
Some Beautiful attractors:
astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pb...ls/gasket/
One of the most famous:
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~trose/rossler.html
Another famous one is the Sierpinski gasket. You start with a triangle. Then split it into four and remove the (open) middle one. The same procedure then applies to the remaining three triangles.
What is amazing about Sierpinski gaskets is that the pattern turns up in many ways, such as with cellular Automata - simple rules making complex patterns, specifically Rule No.'s 129, 210, 218, and many others. (Wolframscience.com)
Sierpinski Gaskets also form by:
* The Chaos Game (My favorite, Try it on the web)
* Lindenmayer systems
* L-systems
* pascal triangles
* Trema Removal as described above.
I think Scripts are Attractors because in Amsterdam, 1997 I discussed an idea that started with "Tiny Cameras" hidden everywhere. I have been counting how many old days I am since I was 19. My last count was Sept 19th @ 11877 (How old am I?), so I had that idea in the script. The idea evolved into a reality TV show with a false reality for someone. I had a special feeling then that it was a great idea. I even imagined a patch of rain following him.
One year later in Glasgow, I was drawn to The "Truman Show" and yet I had never heard of the film before, I didn't even know who was in it. What made the film so special for me was that as the film unfolded, I saw all my ideas in it. As if someone read my mind. Its no coincidence that Andrew Niccol, the writer is from London. Is it possible someone mentioned these ideas to him or is it just a coincidence?
Often in history people have had the same ideas simultaneously. Animals are strange attractors, and an eyeball is formed 53 different way. Can non-living things also be strange attractors (Sorry to say that your scripts are not alive, but maybe this proves they are?)
:lol
Was it collective consciousness or did the paranoid idea about small cameras create simple rules which evolved into a predictable storyline. Can someone ask Andrew?, surely there can't be more than 2 degrees of separation to Andrew from here?
:rolleyes
Anyway, I've got that feeling again! I was working on my Step-outline for script one about A.I. which I had done in three weeks. I'm perfectly ambidextrous and was writing with my RIGHT hand to stimulate the other half of my brain. While looking down writing about the .com bubble.
8o
I looked up to my top left to imagine something, maybe to reference my visual cortex and THEN SAW a massive spider hanging on a single web. It was right in front of my nose which made me jump like Hell. An 8cm spider from leg to leg is not the think (I meant..."THING"...*Freudian Slip* ) you expect to see in a London Flat!.
The spider was a Brain Shock, but I was left with one simple concept which grew into an idea that wasn't realistic. However, one day later it flipped into something else, which has grown into a brilliant Film idea. I've just bought a Lap-Top and Final Draft to start writing because I've done the step outline in three day. I've never done a script before, so I don't even know if I've got potential as a writer. I feel lost
and a little mad. But its a great feeling to think 100 pages can sell for $2M as a first time writer?
Has my manic creative disorder progressed? I haven't packed in my job yet, only cause I live month to month!
I'll seek therapy in my keyboard and imagination!
:rollin
D.
The basic idea behind an attractor is that a dynamic system will tend toward certain states as time goes on. The simplest form of an attractor is the point attractor. Take a normal pendulum, it doesn't matter where you release it from, it will always come to rest in the same position, perpendicular to the ground. This state is the attractor for the system.
:\
Simple, now consider all the words that exist and the minds of those banging away at story-lines and characters over time. Surely some of these must be strange attractors, meant to exist! That's why some say the Matrix was so brilliant and yet simple, why didn't I think of that first. Kind of like the idea on Maths, is it discovered or invented? Are Scripts the same way?
:hat
Some Beautiful attractors:
astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pb...ls/gasket/
One of the most famous:
www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~trose/rossler.html
Another famous one is the Sierpinski gasket. You start with a triangle. Then split it into four and remove the (open) middle one. The same procedure then applies to the remaining three triangles.
What is amazing about Sierpinski gaskets is that the pattern turns up in many ways, such as with cellular Automata - simple rules making complex patterns, specifically Rule No.'s 129, 210, 218, and many others. (Wolframscience.com)
Sierpinski Gaskets also form by:
* The Chaos Game (My favorite, Try it on the web)
* Lindenmayer systems
* L-systems
* pascal triangles
* Trema Removal as described above.
I think Scripts are Attractors because in Amsterdam, 1997 I discussed an idea that started with "Tiny Cameras" hidden everywhere. I have been counting how many old days I am since I was 19. My last count was Sept 19th @ 11877 (How old am I?), so I had that idea in the script. The idea evolved into a reality TV show with a false reality for someone. I had a special feeling then that it was a great idea. I even imagined a patch of rain following him.
One year later in Glasgow, I was drawn to The "Truman Show" and yet I had never heard of the film before, I didn't even know who was in it. What made the film so special for me was that as the film unfolded, I saw all my ideas in it. As if someone read my mind. Its no coincidence that Andrew Niccol, the writer is from London. Is it possible someone mentioned these ideas to him or is it just a coincidence?
Often in history people have had the same ideas simultaneously. Animals are strange attractors, and an eyeball is formed 53 different way. Can non-living things also be strange attractors (Sorry to say that your scripts are not alive, but maybe this proves they are?)
:lol
Was it collective consciousness or did the paranoid idea about small cameras create simple rules which evolved into a predictable storyline. Can someone ask Andrew?, surely there can't be more than 2 degrees of separation to Andrew from here?
:rolleyes
Anyway, I've got that feeling again! I was working on my Step-outline for script one about A.I. which I had done in three weeks. I'm perfectly ambidextrous and was writing with my RIGHT hand to stimulate the other half of my brain. While looking down writing about the .com bubble.
8o
I looked up to my top left to imagine something, maybe to reference my visual cortex and THEN SAW a massive spider hanging on a single web. It was right in front of my nose which made me jump like Hell. An 8cm spider from leg to leg is not the think (I meant..."THING"...*Freudian Slip* ) you expect to see in a London Flat!.
The spider was a Brain Shock, but I was left with one simple concept which grew into an idea that wasn't realistic. However, one day later it flipped into something else, which has grown into a brilliant Film idea. I've just bought a Lap-Top and Final Draft to start writing because I've done the step outline in three day. I've never done a script before, so I don't even know if I've got potential as a writer. I feel lost
and a little mad. But its a great feeling to think 100 pages can sell for $2M as a first time writer?
Has my manic creative disorder progressed? I haven't packed in my job yet, only cause I live month to month!
I'll seek therapy in my keyboard and imagination!
:rollin
D.
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