Is this not disruptive?

So this is what happens when borders are abused. The eye is trained to look for borders, it's a gestalt principle—figure-ground perception (Soegaard, M 2008, Gestalt principles of form perception). We want to perceive a "foreground" as distinct from a "background", though in terms of images, this has no real relation to distance or three-dimensional space. The fact that I think this Textwrangler window is "in front" of my desk top is simply perceptual play... "in front" is not possible in the realm of the GUI... it can only be implied. You are staring at a flat screen, an impressive array of pixels. Yet it is difficult to perceive this space as such. The power of the straight line is immense. We are so used to distinct frames and borders that this page seems utterly senseless.

	Is this not disruptive? So this is what happens when borders are abused. The eye is trained to look for borders, it's a gestalt principle—figure-ground perception (Soegaard, M 2008, Gestalt principles of form perception). We want to perceive a "foreground" as distinct from a "background", though in terms of images, this has no real relation to distance or three-dimensional space. The fact that I think this Textwrangler window is "in front" of my desktop is simply perceptual play... "in front" is not possible in the realm of the GUI... it can only be implied. You are staring at a flat screen, an impressive array of pixels. Yet it is difficult to perceive this space as such. The power of the straight line is immense. We are so used to distinct frames and borders that this page seems utterly senseless. Simultaneous or alternating? Partial or absolute? How do we distribute our attention in this new age?
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