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<LI><em>From</em>: Marian Griffith <<A HREF="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</A>></LI>
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On Wed 21 Jan, Mike Sellers wrote:
> The nifty thing about a graphical world is that you can
> show the user the more detailed version of the object, but you don't have
> to actually *tell* them about it. So are those parts of the design on the
> chest really teeth, or am I imagining things? Is that a pin with a glob of
> poison on it, or just a trick of the light? Sometimes such ambiguities are
> easier to bring off with graphics than with plain text.
That's of course one of the problems with text. Because there is so little
information actually available, everything that -does- get mentioned tends
to become important, possible even out of proportion. When I describe some
landscape and mention there are dewdrops on the grass then the natural re-
action by the reader is to wonder why those dewdrops are important. They
are not but there is no escaping this habit. You can overcome it by provi-
ding so much detail that the dewdrops are but one of many but then you are
losing most of what makes text different from graphics (and have a lot to
write also ;).
Marian
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00283" HREF="msg00283.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00277" HREF="msg00277.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The impact of the web on muds</A></strong>,
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