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 whats...@gmail.com javascript: 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,

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

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

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. Any

Re: The Scale of Digital

2014-01-12 Thread LizR
On 13 January 2014 02:35, Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com 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.