- This seems to be based on Google's QuickDraw datasets. 50 million samples are available in an open dataset,
https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset
- One paper I am always citing to my students when discussing composition in painting is: ‘Cultural differences in lateral biases on aesthetic judgments: The effect of native reading direction’
The title speaks for itself.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40167-018-0062-6
- The most striking real world example of something similar has always been the different ways different cultures count/show numbers on a single hand (Ask a friend to show the number 3 on a hand). As far as concepts - it’s a difference in how we perceive the “starting point” of a hand.
- The phone cluster was especially amusing to see in the context of visiting a small history museum in Ohio earlier today with my kids (12 years old) and explaining to them about how a rotary dial phone worked.
(The added bonus comes from watching Monsters and Minions with them yesterday and during a scene where the director is informed that they ran out of film, my daughter turned to me and asked, “What’s film?”)
- There's a story in Rhodes' book on the atom bomb of Otto Frisch & Liese Mettner discussing the ideation of nuclear fission analogised to cell fission, drawn as a dumbbell viewed head on with the neck of the split a circle inside the bigger cell circle:, where we classically see two cells splitting side by side with a channel between them: she meant exactly the same thing viewed 90° rotated.
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- I would have really liked to see the cultural variation shown visually - i.e. do Eastern Europeans and Americans have different default ways of showing a pizza or a phone?
- The funnest bit is page 6 with sketches arranged into clusters visually. Very cool.
- Poorly conceived thesis; if the concepts differ, then they are different concepts.
- The universal human language is not music, it is donut.
- This is really cool.
- That's a really neat study. Enjoyed it.
- Sounds like a lot of sketches.
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