Do not make snap decisions about what you are seeing: how digital analysis of the images from the Canadian Shield highlights the difficulties in classifying shapes.
The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and th...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 59 - 82 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Mar2011
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