a) distinguish synthetic animation from indexical animation. In indexical animation, there is a source, a data-stream, which the infographic animates as a representation. In synthetic animation the source is a series of gestures which are read as commands
b) a synthetic animation is a record of gesture-commands which erases its own history in the concluding command 'Flatten layers'
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Isn't "a series of gestures which are read as commands," just another data source? Isn't the synthetic then also indexical? Flatten layers is equivalent to throwing away the source data for a visualisation.
hey mitchell - shd have replied before but, y'know. I think the difference is between the finiteness of a dataset – by definition always numerable – and a gesture which, on the other hand, is a continuous fluid change. It's true that humans are, from the POV of machines, random number generators, but the difference I perceive is between the numerisation process which indeed turns the animaor into a data source, and the challenge of a gesture, which is of an order other than numerical (quite possibly infinitessimal – I wouldn't argue against the possibility of its mathematical expression – but if so then of a different order of math to the natural numbers of the dataset
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