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of sculpture and icon, rather than of picture. The TV image
offers some three million dots per second to the receiver. From
these he accepts only a few dozen each instant, from which to
make an image.
The film image offers many more millions of data per
second, and the viewer does not have to make the same
drastic reduction of items to form his impression. He tends
instead to accept the full image as a package deal. In contrast,
the viewer of the TV mosaic, with technical control of the
image, unconsciously reconfigures the dots into an abstract
work of art on the pattern of a Seurat or Rouault. If anybody
were to ask whether all this would change if technology
stepped up the character of the TV image to movie data level,
one could only counter by inquiring, “Could we alter a cartoon
by adding details of perspective and light and shade?” The