Tuesday 28 June 2011

Art by Reduction

"To create order and art is to selectively reduce the information needed to specify something." 

Argument: 
“Entropy (is) the amount of information needed to specify the exact physical state of a system.  ..   The entropy of an isolated system always increases or remains constant ..
Therefore entropy is an expression of disorder.”   Wikipedia

Illustration:
 “Michelangelo said he could sense the figure in the uncut stone; his job was to chip away marble till it emerged.”    (The attribution may be apocryphal.)





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