Re: Non-linear / full-2d writing systems?

> > What I have in mind, however, involves "ink" that is drawn into a 3D
> > grid of voxels,
>
> voxels? I assume -els is 'elements' just as it is in pixels. But what is
> the vox- ? Looks like Latin for "voice". If so, there's another difference
> between your HST's schemes ans Sai's as I understand it.
Oy. What he means is having 3d *pixels* rather than 3d *surfaces*. So
something in this language woud be a bunch of dots hanging in space.

While I agree that this is "more 3d" than my conception (of bounded
surfaces), I think he's also right in that we wouldn't be able to
understand very easily. :-P

> Sounds similar to the idea I put forward when I wrote:
> " Would it not be possible for the punchline only to be conceptualized
> when the person has a full grasp of the whole 2d presentation? Forming the
> story from the 2d representation would be perhaps a process like Platonic
> dialectic. When this is complete the punchline comes like the 'blinding
> flash of enlightenment' that Plato seems to think will be the philosopher'
> s reward for following the dialectic path"
... which, btw, is exactly what I mean also. Except way better phrased. ;-)

 - Sai

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