Trigger Happy
geometric figurings for such common subjects as stags and birds, and argued that the fact that all animals are reducible to simple Euclidean forms is attributable to divine Providence. The geometrical method revealed to the artists a deep, Timaean truth about the nature of the universe: as Ernst Gombrich describes it, “The regular schema which we call an abstraction was therefore ‘found’ by the artist in nature. It belongs to the laws of its being.”
On the one hand, then, polygonal videogames are using a very old tradition of illusionistic construction; on the other hand, they have revolutionized it. Because these polygons move. Every videogame, you see, constructs not only a space but a
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