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This is really really cool One nitpick: > a photograph, an inherently static medium At least on a computer screen, it is far from static Just displaying a p
by nico 3y ago
This is really really cool
One nitpick:
> a photograph, an inherently static medium
At least on a computer screen, it is far from static
Just displaying a photograph requires looping through the whole thing multiple times per second, both to refresh the display and to draw the image
And even a static photograph usually contains enough time information to be compressed quite a bit
- lukevp 3y agoThis is more than a nitpick. If you want to define static in a way not implied by common usage, you could say that even a blank piece of paper is not static because it’s made of atoms, or orbiting the sun, or whatever. They clearly meant static in the sense that it’s not a video.
- nico 3y agoNo one intended redefining static, just pointing out that a photograph is most definitely not static And as you point out, everything in the universe is moving, which is actually a big deal that we don’t consider nearly enough, and which we tend to completely dismiss as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, like you are doing with your comment