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by thickening light, as it were—enables it to be modulated to
carry information as do radio waves. But because of its greater
intensity, a single laser beam can carry as much information as
all the combined radio and TV channels in the United States.
Such beams are not within the range of vision, and may well
have a military future as lethal agents.
From the air at night, the seeming chaos of the urban
area manifests itself as a delicate embroidery on a dark velvet
ground. George Kepes has developed these aerial effects of the
city at night as a new art form of “landscape by light through”
rather than “light on.” His new electric landscapes have
complete congruity with the TV image, which also exists by
light through rather than by light on .
The French painter André Girard began painting directly