¶ Resolution
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Index Entry
Resolution:
“… Think about some of the limits of thinking of what we call resolution. Just look at this ruler … it is divided into centimeters and it is down to tenths of centimeters. … Or if you take an engineers’ rule and get down to hundredths of an inch a good eye can see and resolve the black from the white, but beyond that you stop operating and you sec gray. These are frequencies. From now on we really get into the phenomena of frequency-- and then you see pink and yellow. I want you to realize you are seeing something to do with frequencies, where you do not have resolution of separation and this is not at all mysterious. We realize how very limited we are, and then when we begin to see things superficially-- they are tactile-- we don’t realize how much confusion we are having on an extraordinary set of frequencies.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #3, pp. 100. 5 Jul’62
