Phenomenological Augmented Reality with the Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (SWIM)

Abstract

SWIM (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine) is an invention that makes for visual art as well as scientific discovery of otherwise invisible physical phenomenology around us, such as sound waves, radio waves, etc.. It uses multimediated reality (sensing, computation, and display) to turn phenomena such as interference patterns between multiple sound sources, into pictures “painted” by nature itself (rather than from computer graphics). This gives us a glimpse into the nature of the real world arouond us, i.e. phenomena arising from physics (natural philosophy). SWIM also reveals the otherwise invisible capacity of a microphone or microphone array to “hear”, by “painting” a picture of its metasensory (sensing of sensors) wave functions. SWIM can also be a robotic mechanism for the precise scientific sensing of sensors and the sensing of their capacity to sense.