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individual objects, is ideal for integration. This is due to the heterogeneity inherit in the pile, and what is referred to as the Maximum Integration Mass Requirement (MIMR); acknowledgment that a foreign object seeking assimilation within a pile can be considerably smaller than individual objects already a part of the pile, but not significantly larger. Think of adding a Roosevelt Dime and a grand piano. Although the former is much smaller than the books and pens (the pile's existing components) it can integrate successfully. The latter on the other hand is much too large to be considered apart of the bookbag pile. Once again just visualize. MIMR follows Katamari, or rather the other way around, and proves as example three is to illustrate; large objects are less pileable.
A hurricane has destroyed a trailer home previously occupied by a small family. The trailer itself and all the possessions inside (beds, sinks, clothing, appliances, etc.) now constitute a pile of admirable size. That is, a great mass and a great variety. Thus as the Mass/ Heterogeneity Scale indicates almost any object can be successfully integrated. Be it a gummy bear, baseball bat, or even grand piano. With a little optimism, the distraught family may find a strand of hope in the vast pile potential their home now exhibits. Katamari not only utilizes addictively advanced graphics to demonstrate MIMR, it does what any great weapon of entertainment is capable of: The installing of subliminal preferences into it's audiences unconscious. In this case, an understanding of and appreciation for pile mechanics. The Katamari user acquaints chaos with joy, and forms a personal connection to pile migration. |
Can a pile exist with a mass and volume measuring absolute zero? A simpler inquisition – are there piles that we cannot see? According to this book, which happens to be about piles, the answer is yes. To believe that sight and touch have cornered the market on human pile ingestion is frighteningly narrow-minded. A pile can just as easily be auditory or olfactory as visual or tactile. There are piles of ideas, piles of words, piles of sound and piles of odor that confront us everyday. Art isn't a sense. Yet. Breakthroughs in genetic splice factories and post-expressionist warehouses may eventually collide to manufacture a sense for extra-interpretory perception. Until that distant cloudy day, we must rely on the established five senses to align the sub-fantastic encroachments of the exterior world. Art utilizes all of the senses to relocate thought from one plane to another. Perpendicularly, piles, once, relocated can transform thought from one direction to another. Clearly then, art can play a significant role in the pile migration movement.
Most people find it easier to stack their words into sentences than to let them vibrate randomly in the detached wind. Then, if these people are particularly long-winded, they will stack their sentences into paragraphs. Most of the words you read are |
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