Because it applies accurately, and describes exactly…

The journey towards presence, or inner stillness (‘sanity’ some would say) is kind of essential, and can be a bit like attempting to stack sand grains …. walking meditation has been one successful approach … dirt roads less-traveled are useful places.

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Inner stillness is a useful tracking skill … we often go there while deeply engaged in any absorbing activity … if you are interested you probably recognize it as a useful life skill also?

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Generating 3D animated models … Fumble with words or show others exactly what you see in your mind  … I wonder how useful that might be?

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Shortening the learning curve for beginning trackers … Clarifying communication and improving it’s accuracy … Is it worth some effort?   Well, even for the gifted, it can be a life long learning process, and not finished then.

What would you say to knocking off a few years? … And how much further along the learning curve do you think that might place someone in a lifetime? … And how much would the world benefit from having a more master level trackers around?

(For accuracy … Years of reading tracks and this writer has a long way to go yet … modeling tracking concepts is part of nudging himself towards more skill)

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To illustrate tracking concepts accurately with 3D modeling software requires learning the software, as well as thought and insight about…

– how sand and other substrates behave, and what causes that behavior?

– what principles of physics apply?

– how does the material interact with the foot?

– not to mention how the body moves, how feet and gait reflect the movements and health of the body, the emotions of the mind, and then intent … and then there is weathering … And the tracks you can’t see…

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Using 3D modeling software to express inner vision clearly is in part constant problem solving.  Problem solving is its own complex process … skill, persistence, finding work-arounds, and the gentle art of nudging might be useful tools.

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After all is said and done what remains?

The Universe, a small pile of sand, you, and the rising wind…