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Fig. 21. Application of the Process-Grammar in molecular dynamics, by Lee [2].
dynamics - in particular, the dynamical interactions within mixtures of solvent
and solute particles. Fig 21 represents the data shape, in velocity space ,ofa
single solute molecule as it interacts with other molecules.
The initial data shape is given by a sphere (in velocity space). This is de-
formed by the successively incoming data in such a way that, at any time, one
can use my curvature inference rules on the current shape, in order to infer the
history of the data . In other words, one does not have to keep the preceding data
- one can use the rules to infer it. Incidently, the lines in Fig 21 correspond to
the axes associated with curvature extrema as predicted by the rules.
Lee stated that the advantage of basing the system on my rules was that
inference can be made as to how the shape-altering “data-forces” have acted
upon the data shape over the time course, thus giving insight into the nature
of the computational force itself. In this, Lee shows a particularly deep under-
standing of my work. As I have said in my topics, because the inference rules
give a method of converting objects into memory stores, they give a method of
extending the computational system to include those objects as memory stores .
19 Artistic Applications of the Process-Grammar
In section 18, we saw that the Process-Grammar has been applied by scientists
in many disciplines. However, the grammar has also received applications in the
arts. Here I will briefly discuss its application to the analysis of paintings: One
of the chapters of my topic Symmetry, Causality, Mind gives lengthy analyses
of paintings showing the power of the grammar to reveal their compositional
structures. In fact, one of the main arguments in my topics is this: