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The equivalent to a point in the scriptures is a word. Consider people: Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Malachi, Matthew, Mary, or Jesus Christ. Or consider places: Egypt, Shiloh, Jerusalem, or Damascus, Or consider things: bread, water, boat, or fish. Or consider processes: faith, repentance, baptism, or sacrament. Or consider prophesies: destruction, virgin birth, resurrection, or last days.
For every data line there are two or more points. Well paths, well logs, seismic traces, the location of a 2-D seismic line on the earth’s surface, are examples of geotechnical line data. Lines can also mark boundaries between entities. For example, the boundary between oak trees and scrub oak in Colorado County, Texas, the coastline, etc. Lines are a basic type of scientific and political data.
The equivalent to a line in the scriptures is a phrase. These phrases impact every aspect of our lives. Whether we are religious or not, whether we are Western or Eastern, whether we know it or not, our lives are inundated by religious phrases. “An eye for an eye,”1.37 “turn the other cheek,”1.38 “build your house on a rock,”1.39 and “having oil in your lamp”1.40 are scriptural examples. In addition, each religion has phrases which influence adherents. For instance, the 613 Jewish mitzvoth - 248 positive and 365 negative religious duties to establish or to direct Jewish life are each an independent phrase. Similarly the Catholic rosary is made up of a Cross, five beads (two large and three small, a medal, and then five groups of decades (so called because each group contains ten beads) separated from each other by beads which are usually larger than the others. There is a religious phrase or mystery tied to each piece of the Rosary. In fact, Pope John Paul II marked his 24th anniversary as pontiff on the 16th of October 2002 by changing the rosary for the first time in nine centuries. Religious phrases are a basic type of spiritual data.
For enclosed boundaries, there are
three or more points and the connecting lines that define the
boundary. Collection and indexing of boundaries and the areas
they enclose is simply an extension of the spatial collection
of points and lines. Each individual point or the line on the
boundary, or the area, or the volume enclosed by a boundary, or
the volume changes across time enclosed by the boundary, or any
combination of these components of a boundary can be indexed.
In the case of an area, the boundary can enclose a map, or a
cross-section, or an image, or a photograph, or the equivalent.
The data collection of areas, volumes, and volumes across time,
is becoming more and more important to science. In exploration
geophysics the area data can be an horizon (subsurface topography
map), a seismic section, as is shown in
Figure 9, a seismic
volume or 3-D seismic survey. Time-lapse or 4-D seismic surveys
are where multiple 3-D seismic surveys are collected at different
times. Calculating the residual between the surveys shows fluid
movement across time. But I’m getting ahead of myself, because
fluid movement occurs within a volume enclosed by two
boundaries.
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