[x3d-public] Wholeness, automating finishing standards

[Leonard Daly]

On 7/8/2019 9:26 AM, John Carlson wrote:
> Random thoughts for the day.   What is a computer without implicit and 
> explicit whole numbers?   Thinking of a non-whole number of fields and 
> operations.   Are we too afraid of symbols or semantics which aren’t 
> whole?   Are whole numbers like whole foods?   Wholesome and integrity 
> over the partial and incomplete.


Probably the same thing as the rational numbers without whole numbers 
(aka positive integers). It doesn't form a group (no inverse under '+' 
for negative numbers, no inverse for positive fractional numbers, e.g., 
1/2).

So basically it is a open set, but not a really useful one; and perhaps 
not even constructable because non-integral rational numbers are 
typically constructed from whole numbers.


Leonard Daly


>
> Remember Fermat’s Last Theorem?
>
> Are we afraid of the unfinished? What if the computer could understand 
> unfinished work and complete it as I have been seeing happening in my 
> emails.   How do we “finish” a scenegraph currently?  What 
> technologies do we currently have in animation for finishing work?   
> Render farms, key frame animation, what else?  Obviously there would 
> be advantage to automation?   Do we outsource our animations now?
>
> We are moving up into semantics,  but perhaps we should move into 
> imagination as well.   If we can reconstruct thoughts by scanning the 
> vocal cords can we reconstruct images by scanning the brain?  What 
> about scenegraphs?  Vince?
>
> What if we could rely on computers to design standards for computers? 
>   What are the design patterns behind standards?   What is semantic 
> design?   What parts of a standard must be designed by humans and what 
> parts can be automated? Can we cogently describe what we want in order 
> to automate?
>
> Can we convert stylesheets into AI?   Can we create cross-language 
> cross-encoding stylesheets?   How do we reuse work?   How does one 
> regroup to incorporate changes into legacy software, hoping to improve it?
>
> John
>
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*Leonard Daly*
3D Systems & Cloud Consultant
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Past Chair
President, Daly Realism - /Creating the Future/
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