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> the strength of the human visual system is in "chunking" shapes Which is the main strong-point of dotsies. Words are more chunked together, and appear as re

• yaakov34 15y ago
  They sure are disconnected; you've made clouds of dots instead of continuous shapes. Ponder the fact that a dumbbell shape is easier for a human to process and recognize than two disconnected dots. On the other hand, if you're on some kind of a business-school inhibition-reduction assignment (you know, like "get up in public and say the stupidest thing you can think of"), then you're doing well.
  • trogdoro 15y ago
    > They sure are disconnected; you've made clouds of dots instead of continuous shapes. You may be looking at the table of letters, which is just for illustration, where the letters aren't connected. But if you look at the examples you'll see they are very much connected, and appear to form shapes.
• the-cakeboss 15y ago
  I won't dismiss this outright. I do find it to be fairly interesting. If a system like this were to gain wide spread usage, I think many invaluable insights on reading ( and all those behaviors associated with it ) would be realized regardless of how effective a system this proves to be.