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Visual Abstraction: Velázquez, Picasso and Klee
Abstraction

Visual Abstraction: Velázquez, Picasso and Klee

Let’s take a look today at a section of a very famous painting: The Infanta Margarita Teresa from Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez. 1656, oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Full, high-resolution picture available on the Prado Museum's website.This is part of Diego Velázquez’s 1656 masterpiece, Las

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Grace Teng Feb 12, 2018 • 9 min read
Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction
Abstraction

Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction

In my last post, I wrote about abstraction in computer engineering. In today’s post, I want to start laying the foundation for looking at abstraction in two other fields, in visual arts and in linguistics. To do that, we’ll start in a place where the two fields overlap:

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Grace Teng Feb 4, 2018 • 12 min read
Layers of Abstraction
Abstraction

Layers of Abstraction

The essence of abstractions is preserving information that is relevant in a given context, and forgetting information that is irrelevant in that context. – John V. Guttag (from Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python)I started learning programming when I was 10, when I walked into my father’s study

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Grace Teng Jan 28, 2018 • 12 min read
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