meditation. In 1472 the Art of War  by Volturius was printed at 
Verona, with many woodcuts to explain the machinery of war. 
But the uses of the woodcut as an aid to contemplation in 
Books of Hours, Emblems, and Shepherds’ Calendars continued 
for two hundred years on a large scale.

     It is relevant to consider that the old prints and 
woodcuts, like the modern comic strip and comic book, provide 
very little data about any particular moment in time, or aspect 
in space, of an object. The viewer, or reader, is compelled to 
participate in completing and interpreting the few hints 
provided by the bounding lines. Not unlike the character of the 
woodcut and the cartoon is the TV image, with its very low 
degree of data about objects, and the resulting high degree of 
participation by the viewer in order to complete what is only 
hinted at in the mosaic mesh of dots. Since the advent of TV,