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The Virgin Suicides could thus be called a novel without conventional characters (the closest to a rounded, "sympathetic" character might be Mr. Lisbon, who almost becomes compelling in his cluelessness) and, since the sisters 'fate is more or less known from the beginning, not much plot aside from the filling-in of details.
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What I said was, "Creators who expect the brain to spontaneously fill in whatever gaps they leave in their movies, comics, novels, or whatever, with maximally vivid, animated 3d Technicolor imagery simply don't understand what filling-in actually does or how it works."
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That's not to say creators can't craft gaps in a way that primes the brain to fill them in with extraordinary results, but the information around those gaps matters crucially to the filling-in.
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That's how filling-in functions in a real, working brain.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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That's not to say creators can't craft gaps in a way that primes the brain to fill them in with extraordinary results, but the information around those gaps matters crucially to the filling-in.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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That's how filling-in functions in a real, working brain.
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Creators who expect the brain to spontaneously fill in whatever gaps they leave in their movies, comics, novels, or whatever, with maximally vivid, animated 3d Technicolor imagery simply don't understand what filling-in actually does or how it works.
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Ramachandran offers a somewhat more complex example of closure--one that still counts as perceptual completion, because, though not as automatic as the filling-in of the optic disc blind spot, it's irreversible once completion has taken place:
UNDERSTANDING COMICS: From vision to narrative? (cont.) 2010
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In fairness, McCloud considers a wide variety of panel-to-panel transitions, and some of those unquestionably do call for filling-in with mental imagery to one degree or another.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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Creators who expect the brain to spontaneously fill in whatever gaps they leave in their movies, comics, novels, or whatever, with maximally vivid, animated 3d Technicolor imagery simply don't understand what filling-in actually does or how it works.
Archive 2010-02-07 2010
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