While reading the Edward Tufte
piece, “Escaping Flatland”, I had several insights on what 2-D represents to
the viewer, how it is limited, and how it benefits society.
I believe that two dimensional
images are limited because communication between the readers of an image and
the makers of an image takes place on a 2-D surface, though we as people live
our lives through 3-D. This means that within every flatland there will be a
limit in dimensional capacity. While looking at an image, the viewer cannot
look at the whole.
Though two definitional
images are limited, image has allowed the most complex objects to be tangible
to the average being. This has helped society develop, gain facts, and obtain
knowledge regarding the world around them.
For instance, the mapping of
sunspot distribution, the modern butterfly diagram, or maps of the solar system
has allowed the average being to be more knowledgeable regarding an abstract idea.
Image can make something complex more understandable. Simple designs further
the knowledge of ideas, and allow them to be more straight forward.
In conclusion, though two-dimensional
image is limited in certain aspects, societies knowledge of the world continues
to grow. Just because a picture’s perspective may have a capacity, knowledge
for the world around us does not.
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