NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/cyberspa/958

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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:18:55 -0500
From: "William C. Hulley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Coding Space (Was: Re: Benedikt's Cyberspace)
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deleted several rounds on the value of color, texture, sound, etc for
coding cspace. at the end, paul says...

Excerpts from netnews.alt.cyberspace: 25-Jan-93 Re: Benedikt's
Cyberspace by Paul C. [e-mail].
>
> So.. any ideas for better coding methods than color  and texture ?
> (And if anyone ever sees a map of internet... show me!)
>

you will not, imho, find a better way as long as you think of cspace as,
well, spatial. we (humans) have become incredibly efficient processors
of visual and aural data, so why screw with what works? i mean the problem is
not really the decision to map cspace using surrogates of pseudo-dimension
or color or sound but how to create an efficient interface between the map
and our receptor system. that's why gibson's deck is such an intriguing
concept, right? it limits interface-induced mismatch and presents
cspace as a cognitive structure that we are instantly at home working
in. so why not focus on the interface building problem and assume, for
now, that we think of cspace as a space because it works?

- bill