As we updated last month, the ORA Protostar is currently being deployed in its first use case for HOAM : a platform that is developing the simulation of a parallel Earth.
As a refresher, the Protostar is a 'generative' module that acts as a navigable archive and holographic representation of global data sets. In simple terms, the software just mimics the way an actual star or planet is generated in the cosmos. Like the particles that form the core of a star, each 'event' that happens within the host community or organization begins to terraform the central sphere, creating a world that 'looks like' the nature of the actions its population are capturing
HOAM’s lead computational designer, Bruce Roberts, is working with ORA on the development of their Protostar. Here are some of his recent updates on the simulation’s data cloud, which is how Events are generated and captured as navigable artifacts by the system:
08/30/23
Here is an example of a simple 2D web of random data. Most importantly, timestamp is inversely proportional to distance from center (further back in time, smaller radius; closer to center). The lines between certain points represent the two points having similar data in these particular dimensions (closeness in time and other dimensions, represented as blue and white). . The rotation of the dots is alternating between the blue and white data dimensions, currently populated with random numbers. This causes the corresponding set of lines to get shorter, and the points to get physically closer as a visual cue that they have similar data.
09/05/23
Here are some more protostar examples switching between random sets of data. The second one is in 3D coordinates, but it may be a little hard to tell because lack of shading/lighting.
As you can see from this still frame from the 3D video, there is already exciting ‘emergent’ patterns which occur in the spherical coordinate system.
More updates soon!
