Niolog screenshots and brain language

here's a sequence of 25 screenshots from 'niolog':
http://vispo.com/nio/pens/screenshots/nio22.htm

these are screenshots of 'the pen' in action as it moves 4 nibs around the
screen, nibs whose 'inks' are animations from a 2001 interactive audio piece
i did called nio.

the nio animations are made of language, of letters. letters only. they are
phonemes that are uttered/sung in nio. so the above screenshots are visual
representations of that which is sung, of language that is sung. but they
could also be thought of as representations of thought. in process in the
brain. representations of what language looks like inside the head.
emotions. thoughts. involved with language. and song.

these screenshots look rather like 'onion skins' but not quite. an 'onion
skin' is what you would see were you to see several frames at once of an
animation, where frames further from some near-opaque focus-frame become
increasingly transparent.

these are different from onion skins in two ways. there are four animations
visible, at any given time (not just one), and the animations themselves are
in motion, not simply the content of the animations.

perhaps this, in part, accounts for the heightened complexity beyond, say,
the onion skins of http://vispo.com/nio/still1.htm . this latter url shows a
sequence of onion skins of individual nio animations.

if you use flash, you can view the animation as an onion skin inside the
flash interface.

to view the nio animations themselves, with no onion skinning or whatever,
have a look at http://vispo.com/nio/Nio5.htm . here you also see there is a
correspondence between a particular animation and its sound (which i sung).

to view the generative piece in which the screenshots were created, have a
look at http://vispo.com/nio/pens/springs7.htm and, in the toolbar at the
bottom, mouseover the controls until the Help ghost says "Choose Poem". Then
click the control to change from "TIME" to "Niolog".

ja