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Can we create a picture on the face of a television picture tube simply by manipulating switches on a keyboard? That was a question that I tackled 20 years ago. Working then on problems of city planning, I found that many people had suggestions on how to improve a city or region, but these suggestions were in the form of visual images. To communicate these images by words took so long that few people would listen long enough for the words to build up images in their minds. What was needed was a way of communicating the visual images to a television network which could display them to everyone interested.
©Louis L. Sutro, 1962.
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Sutro, L.L. (1962). A Model of Visual Space. In: Bernard, E.E., Kare, M.R. (eds) Biological Prototypes and Synthetic Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1716-6_16
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