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RE: filmscanners: RE: filmscanners: Pixels per inch vs DPI
> "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > How is a randomly sized and shaped dye cloud a useful
> characteristic of
> > > shape and position? How is it more useful than a precise
> position in an
> > > array?
> > Because it is. It's the way the world works. It IS additional
> information,
> > plain and simple. Usefulness is a completely different issue, but it is
> > ALSO useful, to a point.
>
> I don't think there's any point in my responding to an argument like this.
That's the point, it isn't an argument! It's like asking why the number 9
is larger than the number 4. It's just the way it is. It's just a fact of
simple physics that a pixel does not contain near the same amount of
information as a dye cloud.
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