Re: What's a picture?
Robert Long (boblong@taconic.net)
Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:21:48 GMT
On 24 Sep 1996 17:04:11 -0400, pcg@panix.com (Paul Gallagher) wrote:
|I don't know, but you might try looking in Colin Turnbull's The Forest
|People. I remember that it contains a description of the perception of
|space by the Mbuti, who live in the rain forests of Zaire. They
|perceived distant large objects that appear small as actually being small.
Thanks very much. This is not the reference I was thinking of, but it
is germaine to my subjects, which is the conventions we unconsciously
accept in deriving two-dimensional images of our four-dimensional
space-time world.
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