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Post by **Lucifer** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:08 pm

It's a graph of the electric potential in the earth's atmosphere during a thunderstorm.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:42 pm

Nice try.

Tank: visual-spatial.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:34 pm

Is the algorithm representative of some sort of sampling of something physical?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:20 pm

Yeah.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:46 pm

Could part of it be something along the lines of the distance between the center of two pixels along an axis is 1m, ie, is there a scale factor from physical to your representation?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:56 pm

It doesn't have any particular scale, but I'd probably prefer >1m for the physical version.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:23 am

So there's something that looks like that that's quite large... I think it's time to get back to what color means. It's not height, and probably not intensity. Does it have to do with frequency?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:27 am

Actually both frequency and intensity seem about right.

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:45 am

A macro-scaled semi-algorithm 2D visual-spacial representation of frequency/intensity. Is there energy somewhere in there?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:31 pm

The 'energy' is really part of the algorithm. The input is more like resistance if anything (but talking about it in terms of that would only be confusing).

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:05 pm

At the moment the whole thing is confusing. I'm clutching at straws here. Energy on the macro scale... Is it kinetic energy?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:20 am

So after a little break, partly due to connection loss, I'm back here. Note that I said 'energy', not energy, but it's most like kinetic energy.

Post by **Tank Program** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:26 pm

I think I may have to give up.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:37 pm

Another hint: recurring topic.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:19 pm

I just figured it has something to with colour values and/or image compression or some such thing, as most of your avatars have. You know, technical stuff over my head.