I've long had what I've come to describe as visions. Usually they are repetitive dreams, something I've had since childhood and have come to trust as portentious.

My robots I only built because I dreamed them up during childhood, or so I thought. But after some recent and rather disturbing flashes during my waking hours, that have coincided with real events like threads of a tapestry I've instead come to think I saw myself building them in a dream during childhood. Many other dreams have come to pass in a roundabout way too, eventually, anyway, the robots I have been waiting for especially.

I've almost done my bucket list, because of those dreams. Paint a portrait, write a sonnet, poetry, invent something or discover something scientific, pilot a boat (Live on one is still up there...), write a book (I'm saving that for last lol), raise children. And more, care for an adult (I assumed it would be a partner but nevermind), and become globally notorious for fighting dragons in my sleep besides a few other things. I've walked through fire to be here as well, and the only way to survive that is to learn the art of sublimation.

Well, having a vision of a flash of energy and some electronics right before a bomb goes off and makes it into the news would upset anyone, even if they are used to dreaming of things that come to pass. I cant paint this, turn it to music and it wasnt something I wanted to shout about. I wouldnt build or wield a weapon in earnest with these hands of mine either, so it has to go somewhere or I explode.

So, needing a photo-montage for the Prize video and lacking video editing software that plays nice with my hardware, I turned to a bit of mathematics and blew up my photos metaphorically.

Using histography and geometry the photos are broken into particles, accelerated off the display and then reconstituted into the next in a fluid succession. Unfortunately, YouTube has other ideas about what constitutes HD video and I cant post it in all its glory because of their compression mechanism. This is 2K video (actually 2048 pixels wide) after posting it to YouTube, cheers guys. Most disappointing... Its only this good because I tried using 4 YouTube pixels to one of mine but it took so long to upload I'm not going to try 4K.

I attempted to make a GIF of it, but that also wrecks the image and is too big to upload here anyway.

Here are some stills at the original 1024x768 resolution.

Every single one of those pixels is treated as a particle and thrown out into a cloud or nova before being reconstituted into the next photo based on its colour. Its all done by a Python script at the console the same as my #Old School Music Video except that the frames are produced from photographs rather than captured by AIMOS.

Thats 2,017,198,080 vectors to compute for the montage, and unfortunately YouTube can only display most of them.