Lev Manovich, give me strength
“Live Picture, an image editing program, converts a pixel-based image
into a set of mathematical equations. This allows the user to work with an image of virtually unlimited resolution. Another paint program Matador makes possible painting on a tiny image which may consist of just a few pixels as though it were a high-resolution image (it achieves this by breaking each pixel into a number ofsmaller sub-pixels).”(manovich)
The notion of infinite pixel manipulation reminds me of the campbells soup in the mirror image, when a can of soup is placed between two opposing mirrors, the image is multiplied infinitely, as a far as the light source will allow the eye to see. Like the computer pixel or arrangement of pixel, the reflected image(can of soup) is broken down into sub-images, and you could suppose that the larger the mirror used to reflect the real object the more numerous the reflected images will be, similar to breaking down a standard pixel into sub-pixels, the large the array of pixels the more sub-pixels you have. would you be able to create a pixel, an UberPixel, by manipulating and increasing the value(density of color, or saturation) of the sub-pixels
“How much information in an image can be useful to the viewer”(manovich)
can this digitization of analog media help accessibility(I would like to define an other accessibility mode)the model is of the average user who must sit for extended perionds of time in front of a screen and read digitized data. I can sit for a while, I don’t know if it’s the electromagnetic weridness my computer gives off, but lately I am feeling the effects of the loss of information through the transfer analogue to digitalin my forehead, we talked about this before, and I guess I'm wondering will digital density ever rival that of the printed page. I could pick up a caopy of any book on the shelf now and feel the pain leave my aching head, unless all of thi s is simply a case of dehydration.
here is the definition of analogue: for those of you who are unsure,as I was, about its absolute meaning :
1 : something that is analogous or similar to something else
2 : an organ similar in function to an organ of another animal or plant but different in structure and origin
3 usually analog : a chemical compound that is structurally similar to another but differs slightly in composition (as in the replacement of one atom by an atom of a different element or in the presence of a particular functional group)
4 : a food product made by combining a less expensive food (as soybeans or whitefish) with additives to give the appearance and taste of a more expensive food (as beef or crab)
Is there a different definition of the analog Lev and other computer and audiophiles discuss, or iis it just a the transference of an analogous piece of recorded music or file from media type to mediatype? not clear to me. what do you guys think?

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