Today, because I needed an interactive animated avatar for our latest social VR research, I decided to repurpose a character I had created years ago. That was back when I first started programming for the Web in Java.<\/p>\n
As soon as I saw the newly reconstituted character (now translated into Javascript), I realized that I had created the original exactly twenty years ago. Strangely, it did not feel at all as though twenty years had passed. In fact, it felt like just a moment.<\/p>\n
Looking at the character, and the code I had written to model and animate it, my mind slipped back to the exact moment of first creation, and into the exact thoughts I had had in that moment. The feeling was as though I had put down my tools for just a second, and then picked them right up again after a brief pause.<\/p>\n
I wonder whether there is a separate category of time, which might be called “artistic time”. In the world around us, years might elapse, nations may rise and fall, and entire generation of children can be born and grow up to become young women and men.<\/p>\n
But when we are in artistic time, all of those things can feel like a distant dream. For within that creative place inside us, we know that it was all just a moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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