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Abstraction

A collection of 3 posts

Visual Abstraction: Velázquez, Picasso and Klee

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 [https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/las-meninas/9fdc7800-9ade-48b0-ab8b-edee94ea877f] .This is

Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction

Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction

In my last post, I wrote about abstraction in computer engineering [https://grace-teng.ghost.io/layers-of-abstraction/]. 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

Layers of 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 [https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Computation-Programming-Using-Python/dp/0262519631] ) I started learning programming when I was 10, when