Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.
In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'