"Vision" (foresight or prescience) — is a printing machine that use biodegradable materials to produce analog storage media with information about the future. The work of this machine based on geophysical surveys of a specific landscape.

To build the machine we use principles of 3D UV printing in order to produce analog storage media — plastic records consisted of photopolymers and soil. A continuous track of soil (as a spiral) is applied to one side of such a plastic record. The features of every spiral depend on the data set related to the position of anomaly that was found in the ground during the geophysical survey.

As anomalies can be considered soil features or objects that have arisen as a result of natural processes or under the influence of an anthropogenic factor. Anomalies are invisible evidence of the past. Anomalies can be detected by means of geophysical surveys and we able to determine their characteristics, for example, size and position, as well as an assumption about their material and period of occurrence. We consider this physical data as objective information about the past and would like to predict the life of such an object in the future.

"Vision" machine can predict changes in the position of these anomalies in the future and records data on them on the analog storage media (plastic records). Prediction is carried out on the basis of information obtained as a result of geo-prospecting, analysis of soil heaving, and forecasting of natural soil embankment.

In the machine’s work of algorithm data on an anomaly found in any locality can be laid down. A plastic record or series of records dedicated to a certain anomaly become collectible and sellable, as an art piece. All records can be played with a laser audio player. The record can change over time depending on storage conditions since it is based on biodegradable materials and may not be preserved to predicted changes.

Vision 1.0 (Pavlov's Koltushi)

Geophysical Research: geophysicist-engineer Alexander Artyugin

In the first project, the algorithm of the machine’s operation is based on data obtained as a result of geophysical studies of the park in Pavlovo near the Institute of Physiology named after I.P. Pavlov.

After geo-prospecting (by means of "OKO-2" georadar) using the method, based on the phenomenon of reflection of an electromagnetic wave from the boundary of environments with different electrical properties, several anomalies were found. "Vision 1.0" is devoted to one of them (anomaly 1.2). The first series of records will contain information about physical changes of Anomaly 1.2 and the forecast for the next hundred years of Anomaly existence.

Geophysical surveys were carried out on 05.12.2021 on the territory belongs to the Institute of Physiology maned after I.P. Pavlov, in Koltushi, Leningrad region.