#types of light

so currently i know of five types of lights- stormlight, which responds to honor's tone lifelight, which respond's to cultivation's tone voidlight, which respond's to odium's tone towerlight, which responds to the harmony of honor and cultivation's tones and this new warlight(? i don't know the name yet) which responds to the harmony of honor and odium's tones.

even with just three base tones, there should be seven tones including a mixture of voidlight and lifelight and a mixture of all three. the lights also apparently need rhythms to mix and interact with their surroundings, like how stormlight needs a specific rhythm to grow plants. and there are a lot of rhythms. so do all of the rhythms correspond to a different type of light?

also: singers who have bonded with voidspren hear different rhythms, or rather slightly more powerful and chaotic versions of old rhythms. so maybe that's because the normal or old rhythms were based on honor's tone, and these new rhythms are based on odium's tone. (kind of like how songs are on specific scales, like g minor or c major)

2. maybe the types of light act like colours? in the colour wheel, primary colours mix together to form secondary colours, which mix to form tertiary, and so on. stormlight, voidlight, and lifelight could be the primary lights, with towerlight and warlight as two of the secondary lights, and they all need harmonies of their respective rhythms to mix.

3. this might seem a little off topic, but... in mistborn era 1, sazed mentioned that there are three main aspects of gods in the cosmere: their power/intent, mind/vessel and body. for example, ruin's power or intent was destructive and manipulative abilities (as far as i know till now, i haven't started era 2), his mind or vessel was ati, who was corrupted by the power (i think) and his body was trapped by preservation into beads of atium, which were used by allomancers to access his power... the exact same way the knights radiant use light! by investiture!

so are all forms of light the bodies of the gods/shards? and by investing them the knights radiant gain access to their power? and the mixed light allows them to access more than one shard's power at a time?

Our task for this module is to work with expressivity of pointlights within constraints. We are only to design with a single LED light, which is supposed to be a creative constraint to enable us to dive deep into one specific thing. I believe it will be challenging but hopefully rewarding once figuring out different nuances of how to work with a single LED. I’m looking forward to trying to express different behaviors and impose certain personalities only using one LED. I have a thought of making up for the lack of expressivity that’s originally within an LED through using different materials that can display this LED in different ways. I’m also curious of how many ways I can make an LED display different types of lights. During this afternoon I could make it show 5 different lights - Gradual Build, Pulse, Pulse Fast, Pulse Slow, Alternate On & Dim.

(Alternate On & Dim)

(Gradual Build)

It was nice to see that I had a better hand with this than I had with JavaScript. With the help of Roels example code I had less problems with implementing these different types of light. With Roels code it also becomes obvious that an interesting aspect of this module is to combine different types of lights to make temporality matter. I liked the easy way you can jump between “stages” in this example code. For the Alternate On & Dim I was able to add my own “stage” and I saw the logic that was implemented in the other stages and decided which code I wanted to execute, how and also when.

In this module we will hopefully stick to the weekly schedule that Roel explained on his slides. I believe this is a good way of working, to not get stuck in a dead end or something that won’t turn out to be interesting for us to show. I think it’s a good idea to test out multiple different things, always experience them and write down quick reflective thoughts before moving on to the next experiment, next creation. It would be interesting to go from big and broad questions like “How can a single LED light become expressive?” and “How do you communicate transitions between stages?” to more precise and narrow questions whenever we find something we deem interesting - such as “How can we express impatient behavior within this LED?” etc. 

(Roels example)

TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light

Nine Types of Light is as much an album as it is a movie by TV on the Radio. The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help direct the music videos. Tunde Adebimpe, the director for the full Nine Types of Light movie, storybooked the music videos together with interviews from local New Yorkers on various topics, including dreams, love, fame and the future. Tunde also directed the music video for Forgotten. Nine Types of Light, both the album and the movie are set to release on April 12, 2011.