Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-13 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:02:07 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 13 January 2014 02:35, Craig Weinberg > > wrote: > >> How large does a digital circle have to be before the circumference seems >> like a straight line? >> > That depends on who is viewing it and where from, surely? > Exactly,

Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-12 Thread LizR
On 13 January 2014 02:35, Craig Weinberg wrote: > How large does a digital circle have to be before the circumference seems > like a straight line? > That depends on who is viewing it and where from, surely? > Digital information has no scale or sense of relation. Code is code. Any > rendering o

Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
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. A

Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
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

The Scale of Digital

2014-01-12 Thread Craig Weinberg
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 in