Sportello - Door/Window/Doc/Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

Well, look at this, thanks David. We know our author wrote GR on engineering grid paper......(all his books?)

And I like that 'capturing a 3D view onto a 2D plane: essentially an editing of a much larger reality.".....IV sorta about GR   AND

GR sorta about The World?

--- On Mon, 11/16/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Sportello - Door/Window/Doc/Pynchon
> To: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 4:08 PM
> The grid is a famously ubiquitous
> modern ordering tool.  A Sportello
> is  a framed limited portion of a limitless grid, and
> its contents are
> essentially an editing of a much larger reality.
> 
> A sportello grid is essentially a tool capturing the
> projection of a
> 3D view onto a 2D plane, sort of a precursor to a
> photograph.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:17 PM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 2009/11/16 Dave Monroe
> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Kohut
> <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> ... a framed perspective around the time of
> the camera obscura. A framed perspective sounds like a
> metaphor for an artist's vision at one level, yes?
> >>
> >> Prospettografi descritti dal Durer. Sportello
> >
> > Yep, read your post on that at the time, and today.
> >
> > A nice picture of a sportello here:
> >
> > http://www.imss.fi.it/masaccio/imodelli.html
> >
> > Scroll down to 'Albrecht Dürer, Lo sportello'.
> >
> > If you click on the picture, it brings up a much
> better image in a
> > pop-up window.
> >
>