http://www.viktorwang.com VICTOR WANG Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:22:29 +0000 http://www.viktorwang.com en http://www.viktorwang.com/549084/ http://www.viktorwang.com/549084/ Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:22:29 +0000 VICTOR WANG 549084 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/549084/new version twin car 1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/549084/new version tree 1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="442" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/549084/New version of fire bra 1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="336" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/549084/new version of langara 1.jpg" border="0" width="636" height="479" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/549084/new version the rock 1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> http://www.viktorwang.com/549084/ http://www.viktorwang.com/550945/Dark-Tree http://www.viktorwang.com/550945/Dark-Tree Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:18:32 +0000 VICTOR WANG 550945 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFnew version folk fest 5.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFfolkfest 2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFfolkfest 1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFnew version folk fest 7.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFnew version folk fest 6.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFfolk fest.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFfolk fest new version 9.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="351" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/550945/FFfolk fest new version 8.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> When light strikes the surface of a (non-metallic) material it bounces off in all directions due to multiple reflections by the microscopic irregularities inside the material (e.g. the grain boundaries of a polycrystalline material, or the cell or fiber boundaries of an organic material) and by its surface, if it is rough. Thus, an 'image' is not formed. This is called diffuse reflection. The exact form of the reflection depends on the structure of the material. One common model for diffuse reflection is Lambertian reflectance, in which the light is reflected with equal luminance (in photometry) or radiance (in radiometry) in all directions, as defined by Lambert's cosine law. The light sent to our eys by most of the objects we see is due to diffuse reflection from their surface, so that this is our primary mechanism of physical observation. http://www.viktorwang.com/550945/Dark-Tree http://www.viktorwang.com/539719/Trust-Jesus http://www.viktorwang.com/539719/Trust-Jesus Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:03:25 +0000 VICTOR WANG 539719 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw0.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw6.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw5.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw4.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw7.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/539719/new version bw1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> http://www.viktorwang.com/539719/Trust-Jesus http://www.viktorwang.com/523784/Installation-Work-2010 http://www.viktorwang.com/523784/Installation-Work-2010 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:42:07 +0000 VICTOR WANG 523784 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/523784/Collage test4.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="247" align="left" /> The Forms acrylic paint on canvas <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/523784/Collage test3.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="247" align="left" /> The Forms acrylic paint on canvas we have genuine knowledge of truth, goodness, and beauty no less than of equality. Things of this sort are the Platonic Forms, abstract entities that exist independently of the sensible world. Ordinary objects are imperfect and changeable, but they faintly copy the perfect and immutable Forms. Thus, all of the information we acquire about sensible objects (like knowing what the high and low temperatures were yesterday) is temporary, insignificant, and unreliable, while genuine knowledge of the Forms themselves (like knowing that 93 - 67 = 26) perfectly certain forever. Since we really do have knowledge of these supra-sensible realities, knowledge that we cannot possibly have obtained through any bodily experience, Plato argued, it follows that this knowledge must be a form of recollection and that our souls must have been acquainted with the Forms prior to our births. But in that case, the existence of our mortal bodies cannot be essential to the existence of our souls—before birth or after death—and we are therefore immortal. http://www.viktorwang.com/523784/Installation-Work-2010 http://www.viktorwang.com/518753/Urbotany http://www.viktorwang.com/518753/Urbotany Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:52:45 +0000 VICTOR WANG 518753 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/518753/website 11.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="479" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/518753/website14 new version.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="448" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/518753/new version website_3.jpg" border="0" width="645" height="479" align="left" /> < The origins of domesticated plants and agriculture are buried in a dim and unrecorded past of 10,000 years and more. Recent experience with Stone Age cultures of the Amazon basin and elsewhere has shown that such cultures have a sophisticated knowledge of plants for such purposes as food, medicine, and the tools and poisons used for hunting and fishing. Amerindian cultures improved a wide range of species by deliberate selection of the more productive and useful forms. http://www.viktorwang.com/518753/Urbotany http://www.viktorwang.com/517536/Hydrangea-2010 http://www.viktorwang.com/517536/Hydrangea-2010 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:08:46 +0000 VICTOR WANG 517536 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/517536/flowerwebsite.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/517536/flower2website.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="623" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/517536/flower4website.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" align="left" /> < Hydrangea and glue, on canvas http://www.viktorwang.com/517536/Hydrangea-2010 http://www.viktorwang.com/429265/The-Forms http://www.viktorwang.com/429265/The-Forms Tue, 25 May 2010 03:49:05 +0000 VICTOR WANG 429265 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/429265/Test yellow2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="449" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/429265/Test blue .jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/429265/Test orange.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="444" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/429265/1.jpg" border="0" width="640" height="424" align="left" /> The special relationship between a Form and its essence is captured in two principles 1. Each essence is the essence of exactly one Form. 2. Each Form has (or is) exactly one essence II captures the ontological force of the expression that each Form is monoeides: of one essence. In light of these principles, and in keeping with the account of the ontological relation of Being, it follows that each Form self-predicates, in so far as each Form Is its essence. Self-predication statements are thus required of Forms, since every Form must Be its respective essence. Self-predication, then, is a constitutional principle of the very theory of Forms. A Form, then, is what it is in its own right in that it Is its essence, and since the only thing it Is is its essence, each Form is monoeides, ‘of one essence’. In virtue of Being its essence, each Form Is something regardless of whether any particular does or even may participate in it. Thus each Form is separate from every particular instance of it. Moreover, since its essence is predicated of the Form independently from our knowledge of the Form or from its relation to another Form, a Form is not dependent on anything else. On this definitional interpretation of separation, an item is separate just in case the definition (essence) is predicable of it and not of what it is alleged to be separate from. So, a Form is separate from particulars that partake of it, or any particular, if the essence is predicable of the Form and not predicable of the particular/s. Whether or not a Form is existentially separate, i.e., whether it exists separate from everything else, turns on whether one thinks that being an essence qualifies the Form as existing. To the extent that Plato recognizes the notion of existence, since being an essence seems, by Plato's lights, to be the superlative way to be, it is likely that Forms are both definitionally and existentially separate. http://www.viktorwang.com/429265/The-Forms http://www.viktorwang.com/423433/ http://www.viktorwang.com/423433/ Fri, 21 May 2010 08:23:41 +0000 VICTOR WANG 423433 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/423433/Victornew version.jpg" border="0" width="624" height="418" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/423433/Victor 8 new version.jpg" border="0" width="660" height="418" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/423433/website 9.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="418" align="left" /> < A particle on the classical view is a concentration of energy and other properties in space and time, whereas a wave is spread out over a larger region of space and time. The question whether light are streams of particles (corpuscles) or waves is a very old one. This "either - or" formulation was classically natural and alien to the advanced "both - and" even the "neither - nor" solution of today. Early in the nineteenth century experiments were suggested and made to show that light is a wave motion. A key figure in this endeavour was Thomas Young, one of the most intelligent and clever scientists ever to live, who studied diffraction and interference of light already in 1803 with results that gave strong support to the wave theory of Christian Huygens as opposed to the particle or corpuscular theory of Isaac Newton. Further contributions were made by many other researchers, among them Augustin Jean Fresnel, who showed that light is a transverse wave Experiments with beams of light or of electrons have been made such that both aspects - waves and particles - are observed. For interference to occur it is among other things also necessary for the beam to have available more than one path from source to detector (e.g. a screen). Interference is explained by the wave picture. When the beam intensity is sufficiently low and the detector suitable the impact of particles one by one can be observed. The energy quanta are then localised as if particles in space and time. http://www.viktorwang.com/423433/ http://www.viktorwang.com/423409/Girl-in-forest http://www.viktorwang.com/423409/Girl-in-forest Fri, 21 May 2010 08:01:40 +0000 VICTOR WANG 423409 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/423409/VictorWangForest.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" align="left" /> http://www.viktorwang.com/423409/Girl-in-forest http://www.viktorwang.com/423399/The-Invisible-Hand http://www.viktorwang.com/423399/The-Invisible-Hand Fri, 21 May 2010 07:43:18 +0000 VICTOR WANG 423399 <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/423399/website 7.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="448" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/12385/423399/website 6.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="448" align="left" /> < This work was about those standards of ethical conduct that hold society together, with emphasis on the general harmony of human motives and activities under a beneficent Providence. Making an inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which examined in detail the consequences of economic freedom. referencing concepts like the role of self-interest, the division of labor, the function of markets, and the international implications of a laissez-faire economy. “Wealth of Nations” established economics as an autonomous subject and launched the economic doctrine of free enterprise. The free market and “the invisible hand,” demonstrated here, is how self-interest guides the most efficient use of resources in a nation's economy, with public welfare coming as a by-product. To underscore the laissez-faire convictions, the state and personal efforts, to promote social good are ineffectual compared to unbridled market forces. http://www.viktorwang.com/423399/The-Invisible-Hand