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Post by meeno8 on Sept 9, 2020 13:14:58 GMT -6
Pandit Nitaidas and Nila are diligently translating texts into English from Sanskrit and Bengali, and publishing those.
What I see on the horizon down the road for myself is using the translations to create virtual reality (VR) lila-smaranam apps via utilizing my software engineering and development skills and my education in drawing and painting in college and in classes I took at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1990s.
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 9, 2020 13:41:34 GMT -6
Granted I was not an art major in college, when I went out to Los Angeles to the BBT to interview for joining the art department, they had me complete the exercise required by everyone, which was to create a drawing from a photo of the founder of ISKCON. They were extremely impressed by what I was able to produce with just a pencil and eraser on a piece of drawing paper in a couple hours. We still all had to complete drawing classes before anyone could paint book illustrations though. I attended some of those, but then decided I would rather spend my time in the Sanskrit department. Jadurani was disappointed that I was transferring over from the art department.
It is interesting that the figure drawing class I took at the Art Institute many years later had the exact same exercises, but that should not be suprising, being a standard format. The old masters used to make their students draw each bone from a human skeleton from multiple angles, which must have been very grueling over months or years.
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Post by Nityānanda dāsa on Sept 9, 2020 13:45:04 GMT -6
Pandit Nitaidas and Nila are diligently translating texts into English from Sanskrit and Bengali, and publishing those. What I see on the horizon down the road for myself is using the translations to create virtual reality (VR) lila-smaranam apps via utilizing my software engineering and development skills and my education in drawing and painting in college and in classes I took at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1990s. Dear Ramdas Dada, Radhe Radhe! I WISH I was translating texts!!! Please give me your blessings and hopefully that will help expedite the learning process! 🙏🏻 But your idea sounds VERY cool! I know there is one old site where you can see what Radha Govinda are up to according to the ashtakal lila smarana time periods. In other words let's say its 4:32 pm in your time zone. That means they just started their 'late afternoon' lila, "I contemplate Radha in the late afternoon, returning to her home. After preparing many gifts for her lover, bathed and beautifully dressed, she is filled with joy by the site of the lotus-like face of her dear one. And I reflect on Krishna who is followed to the village by the cows and his friends, thrilled by the site of Radha, greeted by the smile of his father and bathed and dressed by his mother." (Smarana Mangala verse 7. Translation by Sriman Nitai Das Panditji) So at whatever time of the day one checks this site, he or she can see what the divine couple are up to. And maybe there's a setting where it will remember where one is located so that that step can be skipped in future visits. AND of course the rest of the lila smarana texts could also be added to each lila period to assist in the visiting sadhaka's lila smarana. AND since you're an astrologer Dada, maybe you could make a calendar app or program that would give us the right holidays and such. We could add in the appearance/disappearance days of the great ones as we can find that info out! Ah, sorry for the brain spill! So many things to do! Jai Sri Radhe! 🙏🏻 |
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 9, 2020 13:57:38 GMT -6
I am glad that you are excited about my proposal. I beseech Srimati Radhika, the asta-sakhis and all the manjaris to confer their blessings on your acquisition of the expert language skills you need. The calendar apps are already available, so there is no need for me to create yet another one.
The tech we are talking about at this point in history is the VR glasses, which I have yet to actually try out myself. Something more immersive involving multiple senses is still just something portrayed in science fiction movies coming out of Hollywood. But, that does not mean they are not right around the corner.
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 9, 2020 14:14:59 GMT -6
I guess I gave you a false impression, but I am neither an astrologer nor an astronomer. However, I have had to deal with the problems of date and time calculations in software code, which are quite annoying. We have decimal measurements for everything (the metric system) except for time. If we just had 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute, then it would be so much easier for calculations. The hold out is a vestige of splitting each 12 signs of the zodiac in half (hora in latin, or hour in English) to yield 24 hours in the day. Something could be devised for divisions of the year as well, instead of the months that are based on lunar phases and have uneven numbers, 30, 31 or 28 (29 for leap year) on our solar calendar. Of course there will always have to be some synchronization periodically, just as both lunar and solar calendars currently in use have.
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 9, 2020 21:27:06 GMT -6
You can go into the Google app store on your phone and find Hindu calendar apps, but they won't have Gaura Purnima (or Radhastami). You can find several Gaudiya Vaishnava calendar apps, which appear to be all from ISKCON. The one I just downloaded and installed lets you select the largest city that is closest to your current location. You can also search for free calendar websites or software for your laptop.
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 10, 2020 10:54:07 GMT -6
OK Ajay.
I spent a few years in the mid to late '90s working on embedded systems (like the ones in all those microchips in the cars we drive) on the Verifone 490 point of sale devices for the petroleum industry. For VR glasses, it is going to need development of embedded systems. I was originally painting in oil, gouache and chalk pastel media, before I switched to digital media many years ago. Then I hit a stumbling block when I upgraded my laptop to one with a touch screen, only to discover that it would not support a 2nd device in that category (i.e. my graphics table, and my touch screen is also a tablet). I created some short movies with a fee 3D animation package called anim8or back in 2000. It pretty much has all the same features as what professional CGI animators use on Hollywood movies, just not nearly as powerful. The current tasks ahead include pricing out some VR glasses, researching development tools for them (maybe golang from Google, there Go programming language, which is very java like), integrating with graphics engines out there (a friend of mine teaches classes on using one of them at Columbia college).
At this juncture, close but no 'cannabis cigar'.
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 10, 2020 10:56:04 GMT -6
 One of my digital paintings. |
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 10, 2020 11:41:14 GMT -6
Nitaiji and Jagatji were the original trail blazers back in the late '70s. They did not wander over to Gaudiya Math gurus. They spent a lot of time and effort getting Sanskrit texts online, resulting in this site: grantha.jiva.org/I think I may have supplied some of the source texts for the project, if memory serves. |
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Post by meeno8 on Sept 12, 2020 8:13:25 GMT -6
My spaceship is in the shop for repairs. Can I borrow yours?
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