Monthly Archives: May 2013

The n-dimensional Chaos Sphere

This idea came to me while I was developing the Chaos Sphere Trip. For some reason, the x, y, and z positions got misaligned, and this little beauty appeared on my screen. I was mesmerized for a while, just watching it, until I realized that I had finally understood a vision from an old friend.

A couple of years ago, a fellow frater came to one of our meetings, excited about a vision he had: a Chaos Sphere with several arrows. He said there were fourteen arrows, but then added, “That’s just how I see it—actually, it seems to have infinite arrows.” Inspired by the vision, he couldn’t stop talking about its meaning: “Freedom in all dimensions, beyond our simple three-dimensional comprehension.”

With these words in mind, I believe I am finally clarifying his vision. Back then, it felt like a bit too much to take in all at once. He didn’t have the ability to “transmit the vision” clearly, if you know what I mean. But it planted a seed in my mind—a seed that has now blossomed into the n-dimensional Chaos Sphere.

I’ve been meditating on this for a while now. Since its behavior is entirely shaped by randomness—a “code coincidence”—anything that emerges from it can be interpreted in an oracular way.

It may look chaotic at first, but, like chaos itself, sometimes it reveals its hidden order, making you feel as though some “will” is guiding it.

See for yourself (and then reload the page for a bit of randomness).

 

A Chaos Sphere trip

I’ve finally managed to create an interactive visualization of what happens inside my mind during deep meditations. It’s a very pleasant Chaos Sphere trip. I start to see thousands of them, and it feels like every atom of reality is, in fact, a Chaos Sphere.

Now that I’ve developed this, I’m using it as a form of “reverse mind engineering.” Instead of meditating for hours to reach the mental state where I can see this, I can now simply watch it unfold on a large TV screen, which makes it much easier to access that state of mind. It’s incredibly interesting. For me, it’s like I’ve “stolen fire from heaven” because now I can just turn on my computer and see things that were once only visible in the realms of deep trance.

I’m using the Three.js framework to build the 3D environment. I’ve only just started studying it, but I’m really enjoying it so far. The fact that you don’t have to compile anything is a blessing—just save it, and it’s done. It all runs in the browser (for WebGL-enabled browsers, of course), with no plugins required.

After discovering the Magic Chaos Angle, I created a method for building Chaos Spheres: https://caostar.com/3d/js/custom/chaosphere.js
It’s still just a scratch, but with this, you can generate a Chaos Sphere inside Three.js as easily as this:

var newChaosSphere = createChaosSphere();

I’ll be updating the JS file above with improvements over time.

Click here to trip for yourself (and then reload the page for a bit of randomness).