“Tree Moments To Tree” is a collage of 837 different images created by Ni2. Each image is unique and consists of 34 times 27 pixels showing a moment in a tree’s life. The images show beautiful moments, interesting moments, funny as well as sad moments and deal with various subjects. The images are combined and arranged in a way that a tree is observed when looking at the entire collage.
The artwork is pinned to IPFS.
Information and messages are not only conveyed by individual images but also on a meta-level, e.g. by a subset of images or a combination of subsets of images. The collage can be divided into the following subsets of images:
Subjects of combinations of subsets:
In other subsets, trees are included that provide information related to the sequences.
Do you know the laws governing the change of the systems? (see Answer below)
For those who like riddles:
Laws governing the change of the systems in the sequences of trees:
Four objects always exist on the tree, each one positioned in a quadrant of the tree-crown. The objects can be divided into three groups related to balance, chess and playing card suits. The four objects in the tree-crown form a system, which changes over time as the objects interact with each other. The changes depend on the characteristics of the individual objects as well as their arrangement in the tree-crown and are described by operations. There are four deterministic operations represented by the signs of the basic operations in math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and three random operations represented by signs related to luck (four-leaf clover, horseshoe, ladybugs). A change (over one time step) of the system is described by four operations, each positioned in one quadrant of the tree-crown reflecting how the object in the respective quadrant changes.
A deterministic operation replaces the object in the respective quadrant by another object that exists in the tree-crown. This is done as follows. The sign of the operation is positioned at the center of the tree-crown, i.e. the point where all four quadrants touch. The sign of the operation represents axes. The object in the respective quadrant is then replaced by another object whose quadrant coincides with the quadrant after reflecting it across an axis of the operation-sign. If there is no other quadrant that coincides with the quadrant after reflection across an axis, the object remains. This means if, for example, the minus sign is in the quadrant of the object, then the object is replaced by the object in the above or below quadrant.
A random operation replaces the object in the respective quadrant by any object (does not need to be in the tree-crown) that has the same symmetry (line symmetry, point symmetry, point symmetry and line symmetry) as the sign of the operation. The new object is chosen randomly from the objects with a symmetry equal to the symmetry of the operation-sign (same probability for each object).
The four operations (that describe a change of the system) are determined as follows. In a quadrant only two deterministic operations are possible specified by the object in the quadrant before the change of the system. The two operations are related to the object as follows.
Each quadrant has two neighbouring quadrants (including the neighbouring objects), that touch the quadrant along an axis. If the neighbours of an object belong to the same group (balance, chess or playing cards), the first deterministic operation of the object describes the subsequent change in the quadrant. If the neighbours belong to different groups, the second deterministic operation of the object describes the subsequent change in the quadrant. So far it is explained under which conditions deterministic operations are applied.
As explained above, the sign of a deterministic operation defines axes. If a quadrant reflected across an axis coincides with the quadrant containing the operation, the object of the quadrant (containing the operation) is replaced by the object of the reflected quadrant. This means that in case of the plus sign, two objects are available for the replacement, as two quadrants (neighbouring quadrants) coincide with the quadrant containing the plus sign. There is a conflict if the two objects are different. Consequently, the plus sign is replaced by a random operation in case of different neighbouring objects. The symmetries of the objects determine the random operation as follows. If the neighbouring objects have the same symmetry (line symmetry, point symmetry, point symmetry and line symmetry), the sign of the random operation has the same symmetry as the neighbouring objects. If the neighbours of the object have different symmetries, the symmetry of the random operation equals the symmetry of the object.
In summary, the change of the object in a quadrant (over one time step) is described by one of the seven operations (four deterministic and three random operations). It is entirely deterministic which operation describes the change of the object. However, the change itself may be deterministic in case of a deterministic operation and non-deterministic, i.e. including randomness, in case of a random operation.