When Thinking About Buffers...

When thinking about buffers, 

these images immediately came to mind. 

This is a phenomenon in some forests 

where trees grow in such a way 

that they don’t touch each other. 

Scientist aren’t 100% sure why this happen, 

but the most common theory is 

that the trees can sense the other trees, 

so they start growing in a different direction. 

They do this 

to maximize their potential sun gathering abilities. 

That space between the trees 

Is exactly what a buffer is. 

They are a space between reality and our machine 

that keeps us from seeing 

what our machine is ACTUALLY doing. 

On the most basic level, 

the whole point of a buffer IS to keep us asleep. 

I remember years ago 

Pete talking about the importance of buffers, 

from the standpoint of, 

(and I’m paraphrasing) 

if we saw everything our machine does all at once, 

we would go insane.

~C

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