From Points to World-Fields: A Journey Through Representations of Reality
representation ladder point→line→image→video→volume→light field→NeRF/Gaussians→dynamic→mass-light→world-field; senses as slices
Representations are the scaffolding by which we capture, model, and compute the world. What begins as the most primitive abstraction — a point — grows through layers of complexity until it encompasses entire fields of matter, …