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Re[2]: Creativity and 'cross-linking' in the brain
Subject:Re[2]: Creativity and 'cross-linking' in the brain From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 14 Nov 1994 14:20:00 -0500
Why is the interface rectangular; what keeps it from being round? Oval?
The interface is rectangular because the screen is rectangular because paper is
rectangular. I have no dircet knowledge of this, but I would suspect the next
because in this chain is "because it's cheaper to produce it that way" -- less
waste among other reasons.
The processing overhead required to do the math for any sort of graphical
manipulations on a screen shape other than rectangular may enter in to this
reasoning somewhere as well, although with today's high-end workstations it's
probably not that significant.
Have fun,
Arlen
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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