This dedication of the Peace Cubes took place at the 1997 annual Earth Day celebration at the United Nations on the Spring Equinox. The Peace Cubes / Virtual Light & Colour Cubes are twin virtual cubes with dimensions of red, green and blue, in which the colour at any point is equal to the sum of its red, blue and green coordinates as expressed in HTML as #rrggbb where rr, gg & bb are 3-digit hexadecimal numbers. For more on the Peace Cubes, visit http://peace-cubes.net

1. dedication of
the peace cube
united nations peace bell - 20 march 1997
earthday on the equinox on the internet - towards a culture of peace
it is an honour to be here again
last year i spoke of an invitation to a journey
at that point the next step in the journey was to istanbul
to the conference on human settlements
in that journey - i said we need to go far beyond where we had gone
if we are going to turn around the imbalance
the disorder, the chaos, the unsustainability, the violence
we need to go as far as we could in our minds
we need to go as far as we can
in connecting with each other in a global mind
in the global network of connectivity that is the internet

2. as i followed this journey
i came across a rather remarkable gift
a gift of light
i want to just take a moment
to dedicate this gift - this little cube
i call it the virtual light and colour cube
and i dedicate it now - here - as the peace cube
that is
all of the colours that you can find in a computer
virtually all the colours you can find anywhere
in a little cube - in a little box

3. i had discovered, had realized - while on-line
while planning on-line follow-up to istanbul about colours
about how they can be made up of
red green and blue light
a little later i suddenly became aware from the mathematics of it that this cube existed
this is the first time it's really been seen in public
it is something that has many faces
and so many different directions

4. it soon became clear that each of the faces of the cubes
involved part of a journey from darkness to light
by adding the three primary colours red, green and blue - to darkness - to black
a whole series of patterns emerged
i have become immersed in these patterns
in discovering the wonderful gifts
they are bringing to us - gifts of colour and light

5. what soon became very clear is
although we have have first been able to see
this cube through the lens of a computer
the properties - the qualities - of this cube
are properties of light - properties of nature
they're mirrored back from the "other side"
from the virtual world
i just want to take a moment
to give you one very brief glimpse of the cube
i began to realize that

6. the patterns of moving from darkness to light
we can arrange them in patterns of
red, green, and blue
with a wonderful moving patterns
it turns out that there's another cube
which does the same thing but differently
it's going in the other direction
from blue to green to red
so i just wanted to dedicate this cube
and ask you to join with me
in a prayer that
this light can be a symbol
of all the different lights in one
an icon to guide us through the next millennium