xist said:Shinigami357 said:Timeline of reveals? Tell me, truthfully, when you look at something, do you immediately see everything? No, you don't. This has been proven scientifically. The human eye is designed to wander all over the subject, taking in details with every "sweep" [for lack of better turn]. It's innate in humans not to take in everything they see in one go. It's a hard-wired thing, you can't even deny it.
I actually have a first class degree in Visual Optics and another in Biology so we can play hardball about the science of vision and the neural pathways involved if you wish....
When viewing a painting is it important to the whole piece to see the details in a particular order? If so how would the experience change if you saw it in the wrong order first? Ultimately your impression of that painting remains the same and you appreciate it in the same way.
With a book or film, if you started from the end and worked your way backwards would that ruin it? Yep.
Memento...
nuff said...
jk