Deja Vu AscendancyChapter 232 The Long Haul Part Two
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Thursday, May 26 to Sunday, June 12, 2005
I woke up feeling GOOD. It had been far too long since that had happened.
I sent a sight blob to check a computer for the date and time: Thursday at 1am. I checked on Prof. The light was dim, but I could see that he appeared okay. His face had filled out and he looked his normal self.
Hoping I wouldn't find them at this ridiculous time, I checked the waiting room. No loved ones, but yet another cop.
When I'd cut my hand, my non-kiatsu healing rate had been three times faster than the girls. Things seem to double with merging, so I presumably heal six times faster now. I'd been in the hospital about 2.5 days, so the equivalent of 15 days. [[The answer was roughly correct, although the logic wasn't. My previous threefold increase in healing rate was mostly due to increased subconscious control over my body, plus a little from non-deliberate ki-effects. Diminishing returns had been reached, so the latest merge's doubling of my subconscious control and fourfold increase in ki had increased my threefold healing rate to about a fourfold rate, so 2.5 days of my healing would have taken Carol or Julia about 10 days. They were young and healthy, so they were quicker healers than the average person. My 2.5 days of healing was worth about 15 days for an average person.]]
I pushed myself up in the bed, using my hands to test if my physical strength had improved from its previous pathetic level. I was a little bit clumsy because of the various bandages, splints, intravenous tubes, etc., but I wasn't weak. I'd been pretty sure I wouldn't be. I used one of my finger splints to poke the button to summon the nurse.
When she saw me sitting up, she rushed over saying, "You shouldn't be sitting up!" then proceeded to try to pull me down.
"Hold it! I didn't call you in here to wrestle with you. I would like to talk with a doctor. Would you get one for me please?"
"Once you're lying down properly."
I'd already confirmed that my strength had largely returned so it wasn't worth the argument. I allowed her to correct my position. She left the room and I followed her with a sight blob. She went back to her desk and did nothing in the way of "doctor fetching".
My initial reaction was to sit up and push the button again, but maybe she knew a doctor was going to be walking past in a minute or two. It'd be best not cause trouble as I'd need cooperation from the hospital to spend as much time with Prof as I wanted.
I decided to kill time by going back to working on the problem of how to increase my study rate to seven screens' worth. Unfortunately I didn't kill hardly any time at all, because a likely answer was immediately obvious to me, thanks to my non-time-wasting subconsciouses. I closed my eyes and created one sight blob positioned so it was looking at the wall behind me, the one with my various medical displays on it. I had my seven minds each take an eighth of the total area, and concentrated on reading only what was in their area. Some of them had nothing to read, but that didn't matter, as it was obvious from those that did that this worked. Had there been eight different computer screens in front of me, we could have read them all without any of the superimposition, flickering, or other silly problems we'd had last time. It was very easy for each mind to concentrate on their area alone, and it'd be even easier if they were discrete computer screens, because there'd be no doubt where the borders were.
The only problem I could imagine was that some of the text could be too small on the left- and right-most screens. One solution that might work was to make the sight blob MUCH bigger, to be the width of what I wanted to read, probably four screens wide by two high. I'd always made sight blobs eye-sized so far, but I doubted very much that was a requirement, and I similarly doubted that it was only that size that filled my vision in the natural seeming way that it did, as the physics of the two processes were so different.
I expanded the sight blob, curious to learn what would happen. The immediate result was that the room got a GREAT deal brighter. I opened my eyes in surprise, and saw that the room hadn't changed at all. It only took a moment to realize that the larger the sight blob, the more light it could collect. The room was only dimly lit, so the boost provided by a large sight blob made reading even easier.
The apparent change in the room's brightness had caused me to stop expanding the sight blob only partway to the final size I'd intended, so I resumed that now. The room continued to seem brighter, but a long way short of glaringly so. My minds that were tasked with reading text on the left and right ends of the blob reported that it was getting easier to read as the blob expanded sideways.
The center of the blob was also getting very close to its wall. I was curious about what would happen when it contacted. I'd assumed that the 'seeing' was being done - God knows how - by the nearest outside surface of the sight blob, just like it's the outside surface of NP that 'touches'. In a real eyeball it's the concave inside of the back of the eyeball that does the 'seeing', but that was because the front part was needed for the lens and cornea to focus the light. That wasn't the case with a sight blob, as blobs are partially transparent (when not zero luminescence) and it's obvious that they're not bending the light that passes through them. I didn't know what was the case, but it wasn't that. Thus I was curious to see what I'd see, when the seeing surface of a sight blob reached matter.
As it happened, I was the first matter reached, as I was directly under the expanding blob, and closer than the wall it was looking at. Looking down as the blob entered me what I saw was nothing: the area in contact with matter went black. I was curious to know what I'd see if I ordered the blob to start radiating light, but a four-foot diameter blob radiating yellow light in the middle of my room at night might attract rather more curiosity than I wanted, so I saved that experiment for later.
Having the bottom of the light blob overlap with my matter didn't matter, as it was easy to keep reading the wall while ignoring the region of blackness on the bottom of the blob. What did become a problem was that as the sphere expanded toward the width I wanted, it also expanded forward, and some of my minds reported that they were starting to have trouble reading their assigned material. Pleasingly, it wasn't the minds that were getting too close to the wall that were having trouble, but the minds on the ends. Through a process I didn't understand but very much appreciated, the field of vision of the blob was constrained to the same angle as my eyes normally saw [[because my subconscious got the blob to send me only what I wanted]]. That gave the light blob a field of view of 160 degrees left to right, and a slightly smaller value vertically. As the blob expanded wider and closer to the wall, the amount of wall it could see remained roughly constant, and the sides of the blob were several times farther from the wall than the middle of the blob. That resulted in the near views being magnified several times in comparison to the far views. Having the whole image fit within my brain's normal field of vision meant left and right images shrunk. The closer the nearest point of the blob approached the wall, the greater the disparity of magnifications across the sphere, to the extent that the minds reading the left and right areas of the wall were having trouble because their text was becoming too small.
Moving the entire blob back from the wall would greatly reduce the magnification ratios between the middle and ends of the blob, but it would reduce the size of everything. The text was already too small for some of the minds, so moving the blob backward was no good.
The solution was to change the shape of the blob so it wasn't a sphere. I had more control over the shape now than I'd had with four minds. It still wasn't a great deal of control, but I could make one axis half the radius of another, so I 'sucked in the stomach' of the blob, while letting its sides and height extend unrestrained. With the blob as wide as I wanted, and its front flattened, all of my minds could easily read the text in their designated areas. I was sure that I'd easily be able to read eight computer screens.
[[I lucked out with this working so easily. The human eye physically sees very little at any one instant, especially when it comes to seeing color. Obviously you think everything you can see is in color, rather than just the middle couple of degrees, so something tricky is going on. What happens is the eyeball is rapidly flicking around (it's not a regular sweep like in a TV, instead mostly depending on where in your field of view the biggest breasts are). The net result is that the 'screen' inside your brain eventually gets sent a full image, or subconsciously pretends it has. It lies to your conscious mind that it's seeing everything in color at the same time. In a nutshell, the 'screen' is FAR bigger, by several orders of magnitude, than what color image is projected onto it at any one time. I was getting the image of the whole wall sent to my brain's internal screen, where it was processed as if it was a normal image.]]
I wanted to be able to study from eight computer screens at a time, with them laid out in a grid four screens wide and two high. I knew 30" screens were 2560 x 1600 pixels, which gave them a width of 16". With the edges, call it 1.5 feet. Four screens across would be six feet. Blobs can now be up to twelve feet in diameter, so six feet was easily within my capabilities. The screens would also total about 52 inches high; call it 4.5 feet. A ratio of 4.5 : 6 was within my blob-reshaping ability, so I could roughly match my blob to the shape of my planned, eight-panel study computer, especially if the outside four screens were mounted to angle inward slightly, although not as much as an ordinary human would prefer as I'd reduce the 'stomach' of my blob. I was very happy that I'd be able to please and excite Prof so much.
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