Trip to mind   by CHAOS

#12F15A; CHAOS, JAN 1995 ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄████ ▀▀██████ ▄████████ ▀███ ██████████ ██ ███████ ██ ██ █ ███████████ █ ███████████ █ ████▄ ▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▄█▀ ██ ▀█████▄▄▄▀▀▀ ▄███ ▀▀████ ▄▄██████ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ The biggest problem was time. Time seemed to take on a whole new meaning, first speeding, then slowing to a crawl. Things also seemed cyclic, as if I was traveling forward through time only to come full circle and back to the same point in time that I had left; as if time was multidimensional, like I could live a whole life in a second. Deciding that my keyboard was a lost cause, I switched to my PC. I fired up the famous "fractint" program (available via anonymous ftp almost anywhere PC stuff is kept). I spent what seemed like hours zooming on the factal landscape of the Mandelbrot set. At 1024x768 pixels and 256 colors, I had a lot to look at. The program also has a feature where you can put the colors into "rotation", doing a randomization of hue and luminosity. You can also control this scrolling with the mouse, which allowed me to paint fractals to the sound of the music coming from my stereo. So much for that. Next I found myself just sitting in the chair listening intently to the music. I could hear things in the mix I could never make out before. When the Dead claim they mixed "Anthem of the Sun" for the trips, they weren't kidding. I got a strange feeling about the band while doing this, as if they, and by extension the entire psychedelic community, were somehow standing behind me. V.32BIS V.42BIS ║║▌│║▐│║▌║▐▐│║║ ║║▌│║▐│║▌║▐▐│║║ +╨358-83╨425621╨