Someday you'll have to explain what you meant by that quote about vacuums and building a digital picture, because I fail to see the parallel between them.
Posted by: Mark R on Jul 28, 08 | 9:33 am
Look at the width of the vacuum head as the width of a pixel. Let's say the width of the vacuum head is 16 inches. Each time you vacuum one 16" square space, you have theoretically built one vacuum pixel. So as I vacuum the entire house I am building thousands of vacuum pixels.
(As a side note for those that may not know how digital images are built, they consist of millions of tiny colored squares called pixels. If you zoom in really, really close on a digital photograph you will see these squares. Each square has its own solid color. And as a whole they display an image.)
Ok, I now see the parallel. However wouldn't that similarity apply to just about everything... Typing, bricklaying, baseball card collecting, cooking, painting, etc?
Posted by: Mark R on Jul 28, 08 | 2:48 pm
your suggestion, spud, is more accurate. And your suggestions do apply, Mark. My original idea was also to demonstrate how incredibly frustrating it is to vacuum. I don't find much pleasure in vacuuming. It's a mind-numbing process that goes on seemingly forever.
The other parallel between building a digital photograph one pixel at a time and vacuuming is that vacuuming is done on a flat surface, just as a digital image is a two-dimensional flat surface.
Your ideas, Mark, expand upon the concept, but start to lose similarity to how the vacuum creates a flat, fixed width path much like how the pixels in a digital photograph are flat and has fixed widths.
