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glossary
Bill of Materials experiments are focused on studying different entities. If you were to attend to a public or private gathering near or inside a sandbox of Bill of Materials, it is recommended you study the concepts behind each entity in order to get a better general understanding of what you will see and know what to expect.
An artifact is an object or a small installation with the ability to produce or transform transmissions. It can be active, passive, inert, animated, interactive. Each artifact has its own protocol, some of them need an operator for direct / indirect stimulation. Most artifacts are standalone but some of them can produce interesting results when combined one with another, which is a predominant part of the conducted experiments in Bill of Materials. Artifacts are meticulously indexed and defined in the data repository. This index is a 4 digit number, prefixed by RTF-. In some sandboxes they are prefixed with fig..
Generally speaking, an operator is a human being. Some sandboxes may be opened to other kind of operators (animals, plants, [REDACTED]...)
A sandbox is a confined place (as in time and space) where artifacts (and/or operators) are tested with different protocols. A sandbox can be open to the public during rare occasions, where the public can also be tested or take part in the experiment.
(also known as modus operandi or operations) A protocol is a set of actions an operator conducts on one artifact, during the setup, initialization, run or ending of an act, most of the time inside a sandbox. According to the situation and the artifacts, the actions involved in a protocol can be performed in order, randomly or concern multiple artifacts at the same time. Sometimes, the operator can chose to call external help to perform its operations.
The input and/or output of an artifact. Transmissions are commonly defined by humans as a sound, music, a noise, a melody, an image, a video, a feeling and may be experienced by human beings. Transmissions have generally speaking high entropy but the entropy may be reduced. In those situations we speak of scripted transmissions, where the protocol is clearly predefined or the artifact configured to have a predictable output. Most of the transmissions require a protocol to follow in order to be produced.
Reflects are a special kind of transmissions. They are produced in a different space and where [REDACTED] (archives have been destroyed but it seems to have a relationship with artifact RTF-0001)