"Understanding" Automaton
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2024
- This is the 21st in the Robot Enlightenment Series and my "U" project in the Alphabet Superset Challenge.
It has taken me several weeks to get this one done. It started out as an attempt to make the robot look at it's own mechanism and "understand" it's workings... I meant it as a representation of looking inward to understand the deeper meaning behind a set of feelings or thoughts, but as the mechanism came together I saw a kind of sadness in it. In truth, so much of my deep understanding comes with a lot of inner pain. As we form new pathways in our mind the old one's that we find to be inaccurate have to die off. While that is good for us in the long run, it still comes with a real sense of pain as things that you once thought were true (and maybe well practiced) hold you back from real growth in understanding.
I didn't set out to make this one so sad, but I think it is actually a better representation of the first step in true understanding.
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What is my purpose? Oh. My. God.
such a simple but beautiful mechanism! ⚙🤖🦾
Very nice!
Thanks!
I don’t get it
It's not obvious (and it's not exactly what I was going for), but I like the emotion of it and it fits with how I have been struggling lately. Not all of these practice pieces are turning out like I want. It was originally supposed to be the little robot looking at it's arm and then seeing how it ties into the mechanism underneath (understanding how it works), but the arm completely blocks the face and the movement ended up being too cyclical to get across the original intent and just came across as more of an anguish... Which is what happens to me when I begin to understand how I work (mentally). So, I just decided to lean into that side of the meaning of understanding - which could have been done more effectively (or give it a better name like "anguish"). So, it is what it is and I will move on to the next practice piece. I did learn a bit more how to make a complex movement in the simplest way possible, so it was still worth finishing and publishing - maybe someone else will make use of that movement in a better way.