Definitions, Parameters and the Structure of Space:
Isolated, individual, objects
are difficult to relate to each other without some form of abstraction
-which recognizes common characteristics and organizes them in
some kind of "conceptual space"
Parametrification:
Can be defined as a process by which
the (
abstract)
characteristics of individual objects are considered to be the
parameters (
dimensions) of a conceptual
space. This space is then understood to have the same number of
dimensions as the analysis of the individual objects. Because the
space is conceptual, one does not need to consider the problem of
all the coordinates intersecting in physical space. This only
becomes a problem when the conceptual (mental) space is
represented in physical space.
For
example, a colour space may be concidered to be constructed with
three parameters {red values, green values, blue values}. Each
"real-world" colour can then be conceptualised as being at the
intersection of all three paramenters. If these colours are also
expected to have different degrees of transparancy, then a
fourth dimension (the degree of transparancy) can be added.
However, it would be rather absurd to argue over the physical
natiure of such a four-dimensional conceptual space -because it
actually exists in the mind and not in physical space (until one
tries to represent it in a physical space).
and:
Organisation, Communication and
Control:
Because parametrification creates
the conceptual space which defines and describes the work, it also
functions as a basis for the internal organization as well as
suggesting the lines of communication which operate within the
terms of that organization.
This conceptual space is generally reflected in the menu structure
-which allows the user to change values within the pre-determined
conceptual parameters expressed by the programme.
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