Refractional anisotropy is a scalar value between zero and one that describes the degree of anisotropy of a diffusion process. A value of zero means that diffusion is isotropic, i.e. it is unrestricted (or equally restricted) in all directions. A value of one means that diffusion occurs only along one axis and is fully restricted along all other directions.
"We have tried to define in the case of Western music (although the other musical traditions confront an analogous problem, under different conditions, to which they find different solutions) a block of becoming at the level of expression, or a block of expression: this block of becoming rests on transversals that continually escape from the coordinates or punctual systems functioning as musical codes at a given moment. It is obvious that there is a block of content corresponding to this block of expression. It is not really a correspondence; there would be no mobile "block" if a content, itself musical (and not a subject or a theme), were not always interfering with the expression. What does music deal with, what is the content indissociable from sound expression? It is hard to say, but it is something: a child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off. We wish to say that these are not accidental themes in music (even if it is possible to multiply examples), much less imitative exercises; they are something essential. Why a child, a woman, a bird? It is because musical expression is inseparable from a becoming-woman, a becoming-child, a becoming-animal that constitute its content. Why does the child die, or the bird fall as though pierced by an arrow? Because of the "danger" inherent in any line that escapes, in any line of flight or creative deterritorialization: the danger of veering toward destruction, toward abolition."
- Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
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New reassembling flesh
Telegrams overcome death
Gradients break and assemble the new mind
Your soul drags on behind
Carry out man's grand design
Bring anima into the light
Myopic towards social change
Become eusocial in your grave
Bathe in the hideous dawn, don't turn away
Fashion a face for the wake out of black clay
Afraid of becoming stay tied to the mast
Send your soul past the beyond there is no past
Now you can abrogate sleep
Collective unconscious is counting out black sheep
Carry out man's grand design
Bring anima into the light
Myopic towards social change
Your consciousness will be in chains
Traumatized infinite mesh
Teleological death
Postmodern anguish results in a death drive
Your soul drags on behind
Speak in a hideous tongue in the old way
We forget our forbearers' named on the last day
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