NATURAL CONNECTING IMAGE 56 (NCI)
(documentation for a virtual voyage 3D)

Visit to a natural environment (symmetrical and asymmetrical trees, wild flowers and plants, alpine meadows, rocks, little water ponds, mountains, blue sky, clouds...), altitude, approximately 2000 meters.

In the natural world, connectors are provided to facilitate the passage between the different elements (forms, color, light, shade...). The ease of movement from one form to another is so subtle that we are unaware of it, unless we spend a great amount of time surrounded by nature or unified sensory information. NCI 56, visually speaking, is meant to demonstrate how natural forms complement one another. 
The following files do not include written explanations as they are conceived for a visual reading. If you find it difficult to visually read them, it is recommended to view them more than once while listening to unified music (high level of connecting sounds that can help the viewer to concentrate...). They are also meant to be viewed in progression, as each file evolves from the previous ones. The purpose of the enclosed photographs is to document this natural connecting image. To be viewed on a screen (1000 pixels or more) in width. It is recommended to visually read the discovery "transition". 
Theory: NATURE PROVIDES A VISUAL BLUEPRINT OF THE HUMAN MIND.
The two elliptical blue purple ellipses at the bottom of each image are the links to the PDFs. The top one is for one computer screen and the bottom one for multiple screens or a projector. Top (800 x 6000 pixels) and bottom (4000 x 30000 pixels) except for the introduction 56C before-After. The size vary from 768kb to 25.8mb. These files can be printed, quality internet. The diagrams are approximate, technique photography, Fall 2012.
For more information, please download the following word file RTF (T En 2).
  
MINIMAL EXPLANATIONS
NCI 56A: Drawings (the preliminary studies are not part of this presentation). 

NCI 56B: Technique dry pastel, these 15 handmade drawings (dry pastel, total length 1.5 meters, date 2000) combine the seasons Summer and Fall and are accompanied by 6 photographs (4 taken in 1990s and 1 in 2012). Its original title “Natural botanical garden” (2000), has been has been changed to "Documentation for a virtual voyage 3D". Because of its location, Harts Pass, North Cascades, Washington, I have only visited it a few times in the1990s and returned in early October 2012. Virtual format is 500 x 5200 or 3000 x 16000 pixels.

NCI 56C: Photography, before 2007, I very rarely used photography for recording nature because I felt that these walking exercises are about mind expansion. Then in 2007, due to the almost total impossibility to communicate with the WHOs (please view the file "Who decide when it comes to sensory information?" at the bottom of each section). Because of their constant rejection of everything that is not trendy and their inability to reach a universal approach, I decided to document nature = they can no longer accuse me of fabricating images. 
The cameras used were of amateur quality, and due to the climate at 2000 meters +, the enclosed photographs were taken the same day, sun-clouds... The main purpose of NCI 56C is to take out the basic organization of an almost untouched environment and use it as an example for future virtual 3D voyages. Also it provides access to unified sensory information for those who are surrounded by non connecting elements or broken sensory information. 

Introduction: NCI 56C before-after (750 x 7500 or 3000 x 30000 pixels) regular color photography, Fall 2012. For those interested in documenting a natural environment aimed at a 3D virtual voyage: This area is visited by people on horseback tours. These horses are driven up the mountain with trucks and ridden down. Over the years many routes have made scars -non connecting lines- in the ground. It is recommended to virtually remove them and also any roads or buildings in the surroundings or chose another place. This area receives visits of a few wild animals, deer... 
The vegetation in this area is primarily a combination of vertical lines (live trees, plants...) with horizontal lines (ground, live grass, dead trees...). Some of the most obvious oblique straight lines (non connecting lines = fallen trees/branches) that were highly reflecting the sunlight, were virtually removed. As you can see in the last two compared images. Theory: In the left images, the human brain is trying to connect the lit dead trees -oblique forms- with the other elements and in the right ones it is free to explore. This can be verified by scanning a human mind looking at the two compared images (suggested format 3000 pixels in height). Also, airlines appear to have a regular route in that area, their exhaust -false straight line clouds- were virtually removed.

Due to the shortage of time, this presentation is SOUTH-WEST-EAST-NORTH and not EAST-SOUTH-WEST-NORTH.

NCI 56-1 a,b,c,d: Views southward, walking south, VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

NCI 56-2 a,b,c,d: Views westward, walking south-north, VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

NCI 56-3 a,b: Views eastward, walking north-south, VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

NCI 56-4 a,b,c,d: Views northward, walking north, VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

The level of fluidity between each image in the following files is lower than in the preceding ones.

NCI 56-5a,b,c,d,e: SOLOs (views E-S-W-North, the precise use of the color red), VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

NCI 56-6a,b,c,d,e,f,g : Views of some of the CONNECTING ELEMENTS (little ponds - plants - small trees - portals - slow ascent, little elevation change - mountains - camouflage transition large to small, etc). A few images that are part of 1, 2, ,3 ,4 are repeated for a better visual understanding, 1a and 6f = some southern and western views from higher ground, VISUAL EXPLANATIONS.

For those who would like some images of NCI 56 C
The non compressed ZIP files: 17.8mb (24 JPEGs, horizontal and vertical images) and 14.5mb (11 JPEGs, panoramic  images). The originals (raw+jpeg) were reduced to 1000 pixels in height (1000 x 443 - 1000 x 3653), quality 11/12. 

The contact sheets.

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