Dans son ascension irrésistible, la méditation semble avoir convaincu tout le monde et on la trouve désormais partout : à Wall Street, dans la Silicon Valley, les cabinets d’avocats, les universités, les hôpitaux, les prisons, l’armée et les agences gouvernementales.
Mais de quoi s’agit-il exactement ? Quand on parle de méditation, on parle de quoi ?
The window.
Spiritual practice in a nutshell.
#photography #meditation #zen #philosophy #consciousness #spirituality #metaphysics
The window.
The spiritual path is like spending a lifetime scrubbing a window. Just when you think it’s finally clean, you can’t help but notice there’s still a smudge on the glass.
Year after year, you scrub the window, until you realise the smudge you’re trying to remove is the reflection of the one cleaning it.
At this point, the interest in cleaning the window comes to an end and all that remains is the willingness to look through it.”— Matt Kahn
"URBANFLOW.art" #Physarum #Simulation
4 million particles that look straight ahead, to the left and right and decide where to go by where it is brightest.
Find the full animation in 4k 60fps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/A6EcsqwuWG0
"URBANFLOW.art" #Physarum #Simulation
So my research and development is bearing fruit:
Today I tried out using my new physarum force with SDF-text in the form of our Media·Art studios name https://UrbanFlow.art
And together with several other forces this turned out beautiful!
#mastoart #Tooll3 #realtime #newmediaart #abstractart#particles #livingpainting #creativecoding #hlsl #gpu #shader #generative #procedural #visualart #audioreactive #sounddesign #Zen #opensource #recording #soundscape
"Stream of Consciousness" · Physarum simulation
The full length animation in 4k @60fps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/BQ_UECtrAA8
Another R&D test with my HLSL compute shader physarum force for Tooll3.
Went over my Steam collection thinking about which games I want to play again. Tested three of them and realized that even though I liked them all, didn't feel like playing more. The spark wasn't there. Yet another area in my life where I don't seem to get kicks from whatever I liked before.
I started thinking and realized there are only a handful of games I've come back to in my 35 or so years of gaming. The only exception is GeneRally and its sequel which have remained a stable favorite but even there the biggest reason has been creating new tracks.
With music, I've managed to internalize that once I've really gotten into something, I will burn through it and won't come back. I need to understand this is likely true in every media.
Instead of looking back, I should concentrate in what is front of my eyes. Goes nicely together with my Zen Buddhist journey.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #zen #ZenBuddhisn @actuallyautistic
The sun came out while I was doing my afternoon meditation, as if to encourage me.
I often foolishly skip my afternoon sit when either in flow or stressing about time. The former I can work with by being flexible when I sit. The time to move and sit never materially affects the latter but does help with the stress and my feelings about time. #zen
I kept to sitting twice a day last week. I feel much better for it and avoided the temptation of thinking I didn't need to still keep to it.
If I could give my younger self some life advice it would be that some days will be better than others, don't sweat about what you can't influence and NEVER go down the audiophile rabbit hole.
"Physarum 1.0"
This is especially cool, since it integrates with all other forces, here I use for instance a custom turbulence with symmetry and the angular force for a more geometrical look
Full version in 4k 60fps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/LnqaCWVH9EU
"Physarum 1.0"
After another day in the HLSL code for my Physarum Force for the particle system in Tooll3, I achieved a first version of agents that follow their own pheromones.
I also added several parameters for a wider range of control. 
Looking forward to the full podcast (not that it has the slightest relevance to me!).
