[x3d-public] DIGITS#17 - the true enemy (German language!)

[John Carlson]

Another name might be "Uniform."

Whee!

John

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 6:49 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting Christoph. I had the idea of universes as digits (not sure who
> was first), but I haven't done anything with the idea.  My new idea is that
> a multipronged virus hits the planet, rendering everything "Normal" (The
> movie title, or "The Newest Normal") or identical humans, cars, plants,
> roads, shapes, movies and text in a scene replicated, with different views.
> I don't have any dialog yet, but there would only be one song.
>
> This seems like what Douglas Hofstatder was smoking when he wrote "Godel,
> Escher, Bach,..." I guess.
>
> Probably a good soundtrack for "Normal" would be a derivative of "Little
> Boxes."
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 5:05 PM Christoph Valentin <
> christoph.valentin at gmx.at> wrote:
>
>> Dear Markus, Dear Georg, Dear x3d-public
>>
>> The third of five parts of the story "The third child" has been finished
>> this week (thanks to two weeks of vacation and a few easy days at the
>> country side).
>>
>> 1. Prologue - finished with version 1.5 (2016)
>> 2. Friendship - finished with version 1.5 (2016)
>> 3.1. The Mission - the true enemy - finished with version 1.6 (2020)
>> 3.2. The Mission - "Läuterung" - to be finished (2021 ???)
>> 3.3. The Mission - "Staffellauf" - to be finished (2022 ???)
>>
>> Part 3.x. is a love story between "Lieserl" (German female first name,
>> means Elizabeth) and "Otto" (German male first name).
>>
>> "Lieserl" can be interpreted as a metaphor for the telecom industry,
>> "Otto" stands for all kinds of virtual globes (/universes), e.g. the idea
>> DIGITS.
>>
>> The narrative is licensed by a "Creative Commons" license, volunteers for
>> translation to English would be appreciated.
>>
>> The official home page is at: http://letztersein.com/drehbuchseite
>>
>> The "official easter eggs" have been published at github:
>>
>> https://github.com/christoph-v/digits/blob/master/output/ddk/easter-eggs.txt
>>
>> Have a nice week,
>> Christoph
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