MW: MT:>> Why are images almost always more powerful than the corresponding symbols? Why do they communicate so much faster?
Um . . . . dude . . . . it's just a bandwidth thing. Vlad:Because of higher bandwidth? Well, guys, if the only difference between an image and, say, a symbolic - verbal or mathematical or programming - description is bandwidth, perhaps you'll be able to explain how you see the Cafe Wall illusion from a symbolic description: http://www.at-bristol.org.uk/Optical/cafewall_main.htm A symbolic description of the above will only describe a set of parallel lines and rectangles - and there will be no illusion. (You could also try a similar exercise with some of the other illusions there). Or you might try a symbolic description of the Mona Lisa, and explain to me, how I will know from your description that she is smiling. You see if you take that image to pieces - as you must do in forming a symbolic description - there is no smile!: http://gotart.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/mona-lisa-lisa-gherardini/ And perhaps you can explain to me how you will see the final picture on any fully-formed jigsaw puzzle from just the pieces at the very beginning. Take a picture to pieces - and you don't "get" the picture any more. Like I said, we are extremely ignorant about how images work. (I'll explain more another time - but in the meantime, maybe Vlad can explain to us how and where the information that is lost in the above examples, is encoded.). ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=98558129-0bdb63 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
