Rodney A. Brooks Quote

Fields of color. A special feature of this book is the use of color to depict fields that in themselves are unpicturable. Just as the color blue permeates the sky, so you will be asked to picture space as permeated with colors, with different colors representing different fields. Color is an appropriate tool for this job because color is something that does not exist in itself; it exists only as a property of something else. By using colors to represent physical fields, we remind ourselves that fields are a property of space, not a separate substance in space.

Rodney A. Brooks

Fields of color. A special feature of this book is the use of color to depict fields that in themselves are unpicturable. Just as the color blue permeates the sky, so you will be asked to picture space as permeated with colors, with different colors representing different fields. Color is an appropriate tool for this job because color is something that does not exist in itself; it exists only as a property of something else. By using colors to represent physical fields, we remind ourselves that fields are a property of space, not a separate substance in space.

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About Rodney A. Brooks

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics) and currently is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).