On 12 Jan 2014, at 14:35, Craig Weinberg wrote:
How large does a digital circle have to be before the circumference
seems like a straight line?
Digital information has no scale or sense of relation. Code is code.
Any rendering of that code into a visual experience of lines and
curves is a question of graphic formatting and human optical
interaction. With a universe that assumes information as
fundamental, the proximity-dependent flatness or roundness of the
Earth would have to be defined programmatically. Otherwise, it is
simply “the case” that a person is standing on the round surface of
the round Earth. Proximity is simply a value with no inherent
geometric relevance.
When we resize a circle in Photoshop, for instance, the program is
not transforming a real shape, it is erasing the old digital circle
and creating a new, unrelated digital circle. Like a cartoon, the
relation between the before and after, between one frame and the
“next” is within our own interpretation, not within the information.
We can't erase a circle in a cartoon.
Bruno
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