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
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:
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
