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Most of text is 2D. What is usually regarded as text is just a collection of simplified and arranged 2D symbols. What is usually regarded as a picture is collec
by Tsukiko 12y ago
Most of text is 2D.
What is usually regarded as text is just a collection of simplified and arranged 2D symbols.
What is usually regarded as a picture is collection of unarranged non-simplified 2D symbols.
1D text would be more like morse code.
- Ygg2 12y agoI didn't meant as a visual reprentation. Text no matter how well formatted/displayed will only flow in one direction* (be it up-down/down-up and left-to-right/right-to-left). In a picture you have no such constraints. Thus a picture is harder to scan by humans and machines alike. It takes expert knowledge to tune out some of distractions of visual representation. * Exception being texts that are deformed to instill a sense of confusion and to simply play with how text looks like. Or possibly some really obscure non-European writing system that writes non-linearly.