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As the story goes, the entire court of an ancient sultan, including the sultan himself, was addicted to a psychotropic salt called Ipsis. Conspiring with a sorority of smugglers, an unnamed artist plundered the sultan's stock of Ipsis, molecularly altered it into a composite cellular structure, and launched it into low orbit. There it burned red in the sky, an affront to the sultan's sovereignty, for three years. Each time the sultan tried to disperse it through the means available to him, the structure, described in the record as a cellular automaton, rearranged itself and persisted. Quetzal. | As the story goes, the entire court of an ancient sultan, including the sultan himself, was addicted to a psychotropic salt called Ipsis. Conspiring with a sorority of smugglers, an unnamed artist plundered the sultan's stock of Ipsis, molecularly altered it into a composite cellular structure, and launched it into low orbit. There it burned red in the sky, an affront to the sultan's sovereignty, for three years. Each time the sultan tried to disperse it through the means available to him, the structure, described in the record as a cellular automaton, rearranged itself and persisted. Quetzal. | ||
There are plenty of modern examples too. One of the artists whose work I most admire is | There are plenty of modern examples too. One of the artists whose work I most admire is τª. τª makes psionic crystal mazes on the edge of the Moon Stair. I first formulated the entropy/hierarchy dichotomy while exploring one filled with ambulatory nodules, each of which 'fizz' when alone, vibrate at pleasing frequencies in groups, but 'pop' when enough other nodules start to orbit it. I'd quetzal if I could meet τª, but it may prove difficult as the rumors say they're a subentity of the sentient tree-city Chavvah. | ||
&CThe Two Poles&y | &CThe Two Poles&y | ||