On Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:45:13 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > 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. >
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