It is weird how the simulators take shapes, flip them around, blend them with the image as a painter uses a paintbrush, only the paintbrush is shaped like the Asian continent or a Nike sports brand symbol or whatever else. And the effect of the brush is to create light places, dark places or mathematic effects based on whatever effect that shape represents at the time. Photoshop can do all this, and Adobe After Effects could render it in animation. The software isn't complicated, and the use of it isn't either. It's just that the 9/11 imagery is a sort of chaotic organization of disparate tools. An artificial intelligence program designed to combine all the tools of Adobe at once could conceivably execute something like this. Those mosaic photos, made from other images, execute just a few tools automatically. You could use many more to make something more complex, given enough computing power (and I'm sure the military has computing power to spare):
Bush composed of the official American deaths in latest Iraq war
The above is amazing to most people but it's a simple trick with few tools. 9/11 could have used much more layering, usage of other tools, etc.
By imbuing the 9/11 graphics with this subconscious imagery and building the strikes, collapses, people, crowds and news reports of a fake cartoon world version of New York and the Pentagon exclusively from these layered 'brush strokes' they can sort of force people to see the most 'realistic' thing - the actors with blood make-up, the apparently smoking towers - while mentally swallowing gobfulls of putrid fake iconography.
It's like impressionism only instead of dots, there's figures and symbols digitally meshed.
Referencing other work you have done Ozzy, the weird thing is that the creators also seem to enjoy using the symbols to build larger symbols, such as the infamous screaming demon shot, which was most likely built from the same brush-strokes of digital brushes shaped like Masonic personalities, animals, demons, Arabs and what-have-you. So just like a digital painter, they can use their digital stamp to either build up realistic scenes or fantasy scenes.
Coupled with the novelistic writers who combine realistic scenarios with fairy-tale scenarios, imitating journalism, you essentially have a creative team of visual artists and authors pouring their amazing, potentially positive energy into a destructive fearful force instead of using their talents for good. What a waste!
(And before you devil's advocates run to the defense of the sell-out artists and say 'Hey, it all works out in the end! At least they are expressing themselves ... You are doing the same thing on this site.' let me say this: that same argument is used by child-rapists and the countless unsavory figures of history to defend themselves "I couldn't help it. It's just who I am. Everyone is sexual. Mine is just different." Right. It's destructive instead of creative. That is an actual difference, and it must be recognized.)
We all make choices based on our surroundings and these people making the 9/11 imagery do not value what is immediately around them. They are delusional in thinking that causing pain and suffering and mental anguish is some necessary consequence of their lifestyle. They are making a negative choice that they cannot face up to. They do not resist their impulses to do harm because to them, questioning their impulses is evil ... even when their impulses are self-destructive! It's insanity. These people chose to do wrong by themselves. They should start doing right immediately, admit they have thrown their creative energy into an abyss and destroyed immense opportunity for redemptive behavior.
f#cking sell-out artists. What they do shouldn't be called art. It mustn't be called art. It is anti-art.
Something occurs to me now -- I wonder if the reason the news networks were called upon to animate the shitty helicopters and airplanes is because the military didn't want to give the networks even just a tiny bit of their powerful machines' computing power.
Either that, or the software isn't good at unambiguous objects. It is designed to create realism through the build-up of nonsense. So when they had to animate a basic, straightforward airplane, you end up with missing wings, bad angles, warped airplanes, etc. Anyway, that's just speculation in my own tirade. I don't mean to distract from your work, Ozzy. Good on ye.
