(Research utilizing this vectorgram method includes fields such as
binary speech and Shakespeare's syllable patterns, even tradition drum rhythms.) It could give us insight into how poetry may be used
as therapy and how different types of meter and rythm (pentameter-5, hexameter-6 ) effect the physiology and psychology of the listener.
DNA & Binary Patterns of RigVeda Hymn.
From above Link.....
From this perspective death is viewed as a state of equilibrium. The illustrations of the circulatory system first rendered centuries ago, highlight just one of the fractal structures within our bodies.
Heart arrythmias and blood clotting have been associated with chaotic behaviour. SDPs Symmetrized dot-patterns are a modern adjunct to these realisations, as illustrated in Pickover's book, applied to cardiology:
'The symmetrized dot-pattern ... can be used to represent normal and pathological heart sound (mild mitral stenosis, and mitral regurgitation) ... Unlike the ECG which measures electrical activity of the heart,
the SDP described here uses acoustic input. The symmetrized dot-pattern (SDP) characterises waveforms using patterns of dots and requires very limited computational time as prerequisite.'
Pickover also mentions the representation of DNA by DNA vectorgrams; these 'can be used to search for patterns in the sequence of bases in DNA.' Ibid.Applications in data and information processing are now
well established, in speech recognition, character recognition, data compression for communications and graphics manipulation. The chaos we see in the external world is to be found in our grey matter.
One article describes and illustrates the chaotic behaviour involved in the perception of smell. Freeman (1991) New perceptions of the familiar, made accessible by the computer. Gleick cites Kuhn:
A brief introduction introduction to a computer graphics characterization of cancer DNA
sequences, as well as other biologically interesting sequences, is presented. The procedure
described takes DNA sequences containing n bases and computes n two-dimensional real vectors. When displayed on a planar unit-cellular lattice, these characteristic patterns appear as a "DNA vectorgram," C(n). Several demonstration plots are provided which indicate that C(n) is sensitive to certain statistical properties of the sequence of bases and allows the human observer to visually detect some important sequence structural properties and patterns not easily captured by traditional methods. The system presented has as its primary focus the fast characterization of the progression of sequence data using an interactive graphics system with several controlling parameters.
