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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG & DPI
Message-ID: <1988Oct31.202916.16803@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6937@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <12908@oberon.USC.EDU> <2482@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <31144@bbn.COM> <74013@sun.uucp> <148@internal. <74769@sun.uucp>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 88 20:29:16 GMT

In article <74769@sun.uucp> landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>Negroponte:  "... The only semi-convincing
>argument against it I've heard is from people who claimed that the eye
>seeks out crisp edges, and if it encounters nothing but fuzzy edges it
>gets much more tired.  That turned out to be wrong..."

This particular argument may be wrong, but I do believe I recall at least
one fairly-authoritative person observing that there is little solid
scientific evidence for the notion that fuzzy edges are just as good as
higher-resolution sharp edges.  (Anecdotes and testimonials are not
evidence, or rather they are notoriously unreliable evidence, as witness
the wilder claims for the Dvorak keyboard.)
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