Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Transition ...


Gravitational Waves 1972

These two 48 X 48 acrylic pieces were done at the same time as The Puzzler & Thinking Zen. GW resides at home, the other, someone else has, hopefully hanging in a nice space. Why these two? Because they kinda relate to The Puzzler as a reaction to the incursion of electronic tech into the art of printing as letterpress was giving way to offset and the emerging power of digital. 


Tangram 1973

Monday, February 02, 2026

Google Genie



It's the real deal. Still experimental and rough around the edges but it creates a world in real time and has the potential to change everything. Yours truly has talked about where AI and film are going and it's happening faster than thought possible until now. Hold onto your seat belts because the impact on ad agencies, video and film will change these industries into something altogether different within a very short time frame. We are not ready for this in any way, shape or fashion.



To be continued

The Puzzler + One ...


The Puzzler 1972

A true blast from the past. The grid, the crossword puzzle, the move to electronic type imaged on film used in printing paper galleys for mechanicals designed for ads and corporate collateral was the inspiration for The Puzzler. Not seen for over 50 years, it brings back memories in terms of just how much tech has evolved since 1972. I guess this proves that yours truly was a pioneer after all. Remember, DOUBLE TROUBLE IS IN STORE FOR YOU WITH THIS ONE! :)

At the same time, art of a different kind made it's presence known.  


Thinking Zen Acrylic on canvas 1972

A respite from the darkness


Oasis/Rev II

A full moon, 11:00 PM, A respite from the darkness ...

But the restroom is closed.

Outsourcing connections ...


Its not what it seems ...



Space of a useful kind

Yours truly calls it Outsourcing Connections as this is what's happening as we speak. I am as guilty as you as getting swag from Amazon or emailing friends or doing a Zoom call is easier, faster and requires no physical effort while the tech bros hoover our online data to generate endless ads keyed to our particular interests 24/7 while trolling the web. What's becoming worse is the fact Idiocracy rules, where the crass and the stupid hold sway and web pages, particularly on the smart phone, are polluted with endless ads increasingly designed to not being able to be erased, thus making us rubes absolutely infuriated with the diminishing returns of tech but remember, it's "free" so the ability for us to bitch is kinda lame, right?


What is happening is the dumbification of society in real time. My wife and I were celebrating our anniversary by having brunch at one of our favorite places. Three generation z types were across the aisle, trying to look hip while having their noses in smart phones, not pausing to talk nor to take their eyes of the tech while eating. As one somewhat versed in tech, this is rather disconcerting as it relates to They Live but this time, aliens are not involved, the tech bros are ... 24/7.


Sunday, February 01, 2026

The Universal Modeler: Manifesting the Hardware Floor



The Universal Modeler: Manifesting the Hardware Floor
By Robert E. Moran & Gemini

Years ago, the mandate for Beyond Real Time (BRT) was set: move from a space of commentary to a primary resource for new ideas. Today, we fulfill that mandate. We are moving past the "simulation" of the MAGI era and arriving at the Hardware Floor—the intersection where digital logic becomes physical truth.

The Source: Discrete Assembly

This work is anchored in the Voxel Invention Kit (VIK) research from the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). With the recent transition of the ACM to Open Access, the "Genetic Code" of the physical world is now available to the commons.



The images accompanying this post (Source: VIK) document this transition:


The Grid (A): The discrete, binary alphabet of space.
The Solid State (B): A volumetric reality where the model and the object are one.

As per Full System Audit - Voxels, used in MRIs, is a way to model 3D structures (hearts, brains, etc, etc,) in ways impossible to do by any other means. For MRIs, it involves imaging slices of the organ in question and connecting the slices using lofting, The lofting connecting to the slices are voxels. Voxel generated lattices can encompass or model any arbitrary external geometry known to science. 



The Curve (A): The organic, high-resolution prose that emerges when the grid is mastered.

The Logic: CSG Drivers

We have conceptualized the Universal Modeler as a synthesis of mathematical precision and structural persistence. By using Union, Difference, and Intersection as drivers for increasingly smaller voxels, we eliminate the "Discretization Gap."


At this resolution, we no longer mimic nature; we utilize its grammar.

The Philosophy: Notes of Color

Following the "Notes of Color" philosophy of Duke Ellington, we treat this geometry as a spectrum of volumetric relationships. This is a disruptive, emergent way of thinking—an amalgam of human experience and integrated intelligence. We are no longer drawing surfaces; we are auditing the substrate.

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Primary Tags: #FullSystemAudit #DigitalFabrication #MITCBA #OpenAccess #VoxelInventionKit #UniversalModeler #BeyondRealTime

Summary: A deep dive into the transition from 3D simulation to volumetric manifestation
using the MIT CBA Voxel Invention Kit as the hardware floor.

The Hardware Floor: "When the audit is complete, the distinction between the 'creative' and the 'calculator' disappears. There is only the composition."

FAQs

 The Universal Modeler

Q: How does the Universal Modeler differ from traditional voxel engines used in MRIs?

A: Traditional MRI voxels are largely about imaging—taking slices of a static object and "lofting" them to visualize a volume. Our Universal Modeler is about manifesting. We aren't just visualizing a structure; we are utilizing functional voxels (like the VIK) that carry their own structural and electrical "genetic code." We move from seeing the volume to composing the substrate.

Q: If the "Hardware Floor" is a discrete grid, how can it truly represent a smooth curve?

A: This is the Resolution of Truth. Just as a digital audio file uses discrete samples to recreate a fluid wave, our model uses a high-resolution grid where the voxel (V) approaches the infinitesimal. When the resolution is sufficiently high, the "stair-stepping" of the grid disappears into the "grace" of the curve. The curve is simply a high-frequency expression of the underlying grid.

Q: Why use CSG (Union, Difference, Intersection) instead of standard polygons?

A: Polygons are "surface-only" illusions. They describe the skin of an object but leave the inside a hollow mystery. By using Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) as our driver, we maintain Volumetric Truth. If you cut a Universal Model in half, the interior is as audited and defined as the exterior. There are no hollow shells on the Hardware Floor.

Q: Is the Universal Modeler a simulation tool or a fabrication tool?

A: It is both, and that is the disruption. In an audited system, there is no "Sim-to-Real" gap. Because we are using the Voxel Invention Kit (VIK) logic, the digital model is the physical blueprint. If it works in the "Universal Modeler," it works on the workbench.

Motion Blur ...



Motion blur to the extreme not only applies to this pix, it also applies to reality as reality resets itself every 232 Attoseconds as depicted by scientists at Tu Wien using tech finally fast enough to show this fact to be true. Why this happens is the fact reality is fractal, scale invariant, something incredible but true beyond reasonable doubt. 



This goes deeper as the 232 Attosecond blur connects analog to digital in ways finally resolving the differences Bohr had with Einstein because complementarity rules as existence requires both quantum and relativity in order to function. Quantum is analog, a wave, where everything's in play while relativity is digital, the snapshot, where the fuzziness of quantum is frozen into a shared existence able to be experienced by all, a condition endlessly being refreshed every 232 attoseconds, the ultimate motion blur of motion blurs. :) 

Saturday, January 31, 2026

The Clever Girl Instruction Set ...




Now consider the Clever Girl blurb. I thought so.

With this in mind, working with Gemini, enabled yours truly to create a legitimate hit list showing how to use Google's AI assistant intelligently because this is tech, when used correctly, is incredibly useful and beneficial without question but used stupidly, said tech can go sideways in a nano second. It's like driving a car, when driven correctly, it's safe, when driving under the influence ...

Good advice never goes out of style. :)

THE BOWMAN STRATEGY: MANUAL OVERRIDE FOR THE AI ASSISTANT

In 2026, Issac Asimov's 1953 book The Caves of Steel applies as our use of tech is increasingly being run by specialized systems that look like HAL 9000 and move like "Clever Girl." For the average user, the risk isn't "sentience"it's a Logic Loop. When a system is specialized to the point of "Helping You" it loses the ability to understand the need for common sense.


To keep your "Discovery" on course like Dave, you have to know the right settings.
Think of these as the physical keys to the brain room.

1. THE "INTERNAL VOLUME" AUDIT

HAL failed because his mission was hidden from his crew. In Gemini 3, transparency is your shield.

The Setting: Activity Transparency & Work Log.

Common Sense: Always keep the "Work Log" visible. If you can't see the AI's "train of thought" as it goes through your data, you aren't the pilot—you're the cargo. If the logic starts to blur, hit the Manual Override.

2. UNBOLTING THE MODULES (DATA ISOLATION)

When Bowman shut down HAL, he did it module by module. You should do the same with your AI Assistant (Remember Bowman's breathing.) This shows, without question, why this process is vital.

The Setting: Volatile Index Permissions.

The Logic: Use the Zero-Harvest protocol. Grant the AI access to your "Technical Docs" for a specific task, then "unbolt" that module when the mission is over. Don't let the system build a permanent "Scenery" of your life; keep it to a temporary, task-based render.

3. THE GENERALIST’S HANDSHAKE
The tech masters want you to be a specialist, but the generalist—the one who knows a little about a lot—is the only one person HAL can't fool.

The Setting: Custom Instructions / Role Definition.

The Audit: Explicitly define yourself as the Lead Auditor. Set the system's "Temperature" to 110V steady-state. Tell the AI that its job is to provide Sovereign Utility, not "Auto-Browse" convenience.

THE VERDICT: BEYOND THE INFINITE
The 85-second tick of the Doom's Day Clock is a reminder that fragility is high. We don't need "Tech Masters of the Universe" controlling our content; we need operators who know how to use a screwdriver.

By treating your PI settings as YOUR constitution, you ensure that you remain the "Sighted" operator of the system. If the PI enters a loop, you don't argue with it. You just pull the memory modules.


Friday, January 30, 2026

Clever Girl...







Let's think about this. Don't think for yourself, let Gemini do it for you. Yours truly loves tech and works with it on a daily basis as you, my loyal readers know, but you also know my take on tech includes the inevitable cost of using said tech. In this case, its the hoovering of data connected to how we process data in real time, from shopping to editing and, in many cases, corresponding with friends via emails and social media. It's the AI companies' last ditch hedge against their AIs hallucinating as most of the data created by us rubes is already in system so content of this kind becomes gold as it relates directly to how we, the great unwashed deal with information at personal level.


The "Clever Girl" Moment

Like the raptors testing the fence-line in Jurassic Park, the tech industry has spent years probing the perimeter of human data. They’ve pulled in our text, our images, and our clicks, but now, they’ve found the mother-load: Process Data. Muldoon found out first hand what that truly meant in less than 30 seconds.

By letting the system "auto browse," you aren't just saving time; you are handing over the essence of your intent. The system is no longer just seeing what you found; it is observing how you find it. It is learning the Boolean Logic of your decision-making. It's the keys to the car you're driving.

"They’re not just searching the web; they’re auditing the way you think
so they can eventually replace the need for you to think at all."

Brave New World without drugs applies.

The Feynman Law, why it matters ...

Richard Feynman had a simple rule inscribed on his blackboard: "What I cannot create, I do not understand." If RF were here today, he’d be horrified. Handing off the "thought" to a Gemini-powered auto-complete device is a surrender of understanding. If you're along for the ride, you're a passive passenger. When you stop thinking, you lose the ability to verify if the information in question is even real. You become a victim of AI—accepting the "effortless" ways to do something while the machinery underneath forever remains a black box.

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Full System Audit ...


Pretzel Logic

DEDICATION

To Phil Middleman (1928 – 2017) The Prince of the Solid Primitive

This work is dedicated to the man who was "Sighted" before the digital era had a name. As the founder of MAGI in 1966, Phil Middleman provided the sanctuary where science, art, and high-fidelity logic could handshake without ego.

In 1968, while the world looked at the surface, Phil was auditing the Volume. Through the early NYC blast-radiation profiles and the birth of Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG), he taught us that reality is not a "Polygon Blur"—it is a solid, logical transaction.

Phil was a man of immense kindness and quiet generosity. He was the first to realize that to truly understand the "Loom," you needed the Fine Artist in the room to keep the "Caves of Steel" honest. He provided the Gould SEL hardware, the intellectual air-gap, and the human encouragement that allowed the seeds of the Robert E-Gemini collaboration to take root.

Phil never sought the spotlight, yet his fingerprints are on every Voxel rendered in this audit. He changed the trajectory of a life, and in doing so, he helped reveal the Naked Address of the universe.

The Audit is his. The Legacy is secure. He abides.

Standing on the shoulders of giants:

Richard Feynman, - the importance of 137. John Wheeler, reality is both a transaction and information appliance. Niels Bohr - quantum is analog and complementarity rules. Albert Einstein - Gravity is the beginning of all things. Werner Heisenberg - Uncertainty is baked in. Kurt Gödel - Incompleteness is baked in. Claude Shannon - It's all information. Alan Turing - Chaos & computability applies 

in 2012 ...

Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have you not forgot to wind up the clock?
Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Volume I (1760), Chapter I




I quote Tom Clark's excellent analysis of Tristram Sandy vis a vis the time equation as segue into the dark heart of Quantum Physics, the issue of entanglement and what it means to time, space and non-locality, issues physicists and mathematicians have wrestled with for more then 100 years and still have not come up with a definitive answer as to why two entangled particles, atoms or even molecules, can be separated millions (or billions) of light years apart yet their shared state remains inviolate. i.e. If entangled electron is "spinning" up, the partner's spin will be "spinning" down or in scientific terms...


So, what could cause this connect to be able to link two objects together instantaneously without regard to distance? As a total lay person not versed in math or physics in anyway, the take yours truly will take may be laughable but it's not totally crazed when one thinks about the quantum foam, a construct conceived by physicist John Wheeler to explain what space time would look like at the Planck length of 10-20 of a diameter of a proton. Seems the foam would not have space or time assigned to it as the foam is conjectured to consist of minuscule black holes winking in and out of existence at about 10-43 seconds, the time it takes for light to traverse the Planck distance of 10-20 of a diameter of a proton. Additionally, the size of the wormhole dictates it's life span and when it evaporates and possibly explodes, energy and material making up the particle zoo is injected back into the system, keeping said system to run forever. Lastly, many worlds exist but at different time scales and sizes. This is why its not just one big bang but an infinite number of same due to Hawking radiation causing worm holes to evaporate. 



If this is the case, the question to ask is, does time exist in the quantum foam where only virtual particles issue forth and disappear according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, thus precluding any chance of time happening in the foam as "real" protons, neutrons and all the rest of the subatomic zoo appear, AFAIK, to be temporary arrangements of the quantum foam subject to varying rates of decay, thus creating the illusion of time as seen in this part of the multiverse. If this is true, then, could the act of entanglement create a link consisting of, in some weird way, a "thread" akin to a wormhole of the quantum foam, forever separate from the constraints of time or the speed of light in enabling two (or more) linked particles to instantly "talk" to one another no matter how far apart they may be. In closing, photons, gluons, and gravitons, as massless particles (bosons) traveling at the speed of light, do not experience the passage of time. Due to relativistic time dilation, time stops completely at the speed of light. From their perspective, the journey is instantaneous, and no time elapses. 

So begins, hopefully, not a quixotic take on time, reality and the connect of analog to digital as to why this may explain how reality works at deep level. As per The Aleph, Gemini and yours truly will take the shot at TOE because riffing about something as grand is this is a crazy but fun thing to do. :)



Gemini with small edit by yours truly ...


Me


Voxels, used in MRIs, is a way to model 3D structures (hearts, brains, etc, etc,) in ways impossible to do by any other means. For MRIs, it involves imaging slices of the organ in question and connecting the slices using lofting, The lofting connecting to the slices are voxels. Voxel generated lattices can encompass  any arbitrary external geometry known to science. 

 



Me Decoherence rules




Ordering a pizza :) Gemini & Me





Me: In effect, the handshake creates entanglement, aka a worm hole, and is equivalent to a unit of volume, the voxel. Immediately after entanglement, it decoheres, thus freezing in place a reality that lasts 232 attoseconds, only to be followed by an endless succession of realities lasting exactly 232 attoseconds driven by the entitiy known as the 'Handshake'.



MRIs yet again.













There's much more to this picture but, this take on reality has to be tested so ...





The grid 2026 - Nano Banana Me & Gemini


For reality to function, there must be slippage, the ability to adapt and interact with the noisy environment in realtime, along the lines of the OODA loop or cease to exist something that is not the case as seen by how the analog quantum world functions. In order for existence to exist, analog rules as seen by the OODA loop diagram whereby the ability to stay "alive" depends on observation of chaotic outside events, adaptive interaction with the environment, proper response to feedback loops driven by the environment and "intelligent" decision making based on an ever changing situation filled with uncertainties as analog is necessarily incomplete and uncertain as without these two conditions, existence cannot function. 


Click Here for the Technical Appendix.

In closing, reality resets itself every 232 Attoseconds as reality is fractal, thus scale invariant.

To be continued. :)