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There are a few "wait what?" moments in the first half of the book that no other books have matched.
Sadly, the ending doesnt live up to the expectations, at least for me.
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A very different book, but I loved reading "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" [0] as well by the same author. [0] which used footnotes to great effect
This also has a great audiobook version. Simon Prebble really brings the characters to life.
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> rather we ignore the blurry parts unless we specifically try to notice them, and anything we try to focus on becomes sharp. Unrelated to perspective: Artists often put more detail in places that you're "supposed to" look at, and leave other things more as a blurry sketch, and our eyes naturally don't linger on those parts. What's interesting to me is that I can often recognize AI art by the way it doesn't make use…
One of the most dramatic things in this respect is to look at a photograph of a flame. Our lived experience of what flames look like is very different. The same is true of nearly any dynamic object in life (flowing water is another great example where the photograph doesn’t look like what we experience).
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I remember being very frustrated with the main character while listening to the audio book. I enjoy the memory of the story a lot more than I remember actively listening to the story. I think I kept trying to "figure out" the world like it was a puzzle. I also find naive characters very frustrating. It wasn't until I finished the story that I really appreciated it.
"The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of itself."
> By legibility I mean that the Piranesi distortion is easier to read, and that to anyone unfamiliar with photographs, that hasn’t grown up with TV, photographs and magazines, the Piranesi version would look much better, and the true perspective would look rather odd. I think this is a key point that people are often unaware of. For instance, whenever I see a modern artist who has painted photorealistic art, I read d…
[1]https://bookshop.org/p/books/seeing-like-a-state-how-certain...
Unreal Engine has support for it as a post-processing filter[1], but I don't know of any games using it.
[0]: http://tksharpless.net/vedutismo/Pannini/panini.pdf [1]: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...