{"id":4475,"title":"From the Distribution Religion - Notes on the Aesthetic of Copying an Image Processor","kind":"biblio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/distribution-religion-notes-aesthetic-copying-image-processor","version":"f457446c88d080944fdab55b2283e073f1b5a03bf46281a3b7327e1d8825ad95","modified":"2026-09-13T21:51:57.6674033+00:00","credits":[{"role":"Author","name":"Daniel J. Sandin"}],"authorKeys":["Sandin, Dan"],"subjects":["Collection Texts"],"metadata":[{"label":"ETC archive","value":"ETC1031","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022From the Distribution Religion - Notes on the Aesthetic of Copying an Image Processor.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2026. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/distribution-religion-notes-aesthetic-copying-image-processor.","publication":"Daniel J. Sandin. From the Distribution Religion - Notes on the Aesthetic of Copying an Image Processor. IS -.","risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/4475.ris"},"links":[{"label":"Scanned document","url":"https://archive.org/details/ETC1031","relationship":"linked document; contents not retrieved","contentType":"application/pdf"}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":1697},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":487}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Being a copier of many things, in this case the first copier of an Image Processor, I trust the following notes to find meaning to future copiers of Image Processors: First, it\u0027s okay to copy! Believe in the process of copying as much as you can; with all your heart is a good place to start - get into it as straight and honestly as possible. Copying is as good (I think better from this vector-view) as any other way of getting \u0027there.\u0027 The more you \u0027buy\u0027 the \u0027copying\u0027 of Sandin\u0027s encoded intelligence in the I-P, the more you will learn about the man-and-machines. Don\u0027t try to make improvements; you\u0027ll make it only worse if you modify what already is best, even if it doesn\u0027t appear to be the \u0027best\u0027 to your mind\u0027s eye. It bothers me very much to see \u0027folk\u0027 laying onto Dan, suggestions of improvement (supposedly) without a thorough giving-in-to understanding of the I-P design. Please realize, that if you \u0027had-it\u0027 to do it you would not be building (copying) an I-P to begin with; you would have done it yourself a long time ago ... so get to work copying-as-usual. Dan\u0027s evolutionary design of the I-P comes from a very high and thorough CONSCIOUS systems--design-intelligence-level. If you deviate in the process of \u0027copying\u0027 and then Dan makes an improvement on his I-P, you will most likely find it quite frustrating in updating your instrument due to your I-P being incompatible in detail to the original. If you get yourself in a jam, then you have to go to Dan and \u0022$PEND\u0027 his time getting you out of it. So...after all this: the Art of \u0027copying\u0027 is a good form to try on for a year or so while you get into building your Image Processor... enjoy. PEACE/ASCESIS (love): Phil Morton","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":1697,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}