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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6226893" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>I, in part, agree with what you have written here but it is slightly orthogonal to what I was depicting above. You are postulating about <em>resolution</em> rather than <em>structure</em>. You can have structure of both high resolution and low resolution. You can have the area between boundaries be opaque or transparent. Your exemplars can be granular or they can be deeply abstract. </p><p></p><p>The point I was trying to convey was that there really isn't a "breaking point" with respect to structure. For a significant cross-section of the populace, if you asked them to imagine something or create something and you gave them little to no reference point, nothing to tether their cognitive style upon, they would be paralyzed into inaction. The inverse is also true. If you create well-defined boundaries, others may be partially, or wholly, inhibited. There are also cognitive styles in between. There are also people who have versatile cognitive styles</p><p></p><p>Generally speaking, one would think an engineer's cognitive style is different than an impressionist painter's cognitive style. However, how different was Thomas Jefferson (as an engineer) from Vincent Van Gogh from Thomas Edison from the Ming era Chinese?</p><p></p><p>I look at this board (and many others...and the market at large) and I see people who prefer high resolution setting galore...in fact, they can't play without it. Personally, I am not a fan of high resolution settings as I prefer setting to be very low resolution and have the details emerge as a product of live play at the table. But this is certainly unorthodox (sometimes outright heresy) with many proponents of D&D's high res settings.</p><p></p><p>Point being, by default, <em>structure </em>is not an inhibitor of creativity nor is it a facilitator. I'm not sure that <em>resolution</em> <em>with respect to exemplars</em> <em>or the space between the boundaries</em> is either. Some people prefer Cormac McCarthy while others prefer Stephen King.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6226893, member: 6696971"] I, in part, agree with what you have written here but it is slightly orthogonal to what I was depicting above. You are postulating about [I]resolution[/I] rather than [I]structure[/I]. You can have structure of both high resolution and low resolution. You can have the area between boundaries be opaque or transparent. Your exemplars can be granular or they can be deeply abstract. The point I was trying to convey was that there really isn't a "breaking point" with respect to structure. For a significant cross-section of the populace, if you asked them to imagine something or create something and you gave them little to no reference point, nothing to tether their cognitive style upon, they would be paralyzed into inaction. The inverse is also true. If you create well-defined boundaries, others may be partially, or wholly, inhibited. There are also cognitive styles in between. There are also people who have versatile cognitive styles Generally speaking, one would think an engineer's cognitive style is different than an impressionist painter's cognitive style. However, how different was Thomas Jefferson (as an engineer) from Vincent Van Gogh from Thomas Edison from the Ming era Chinese? I look at this board (and many others...and the market at large) and I see people who prefer high resolution setting galore...in fact, they can't play without it. Personally, I am not a fan of high resolution settings as I prefer setting to be very low resolution and have the details emerge as a product of live play at the table. But this is certainly unorthodox (sometimes outright heresy) with many proponents of D&D's high res settings. Point being, by default, [I]structure [/I]is not an inhibitor of creativity nor is it a facilitator. I'm not sure that [I]resolution[/I] [I]with respect to exemplars[/I] [I]or the space between the boundaries[/I] is either. Some people prefer Cormac McCarthy while others prefer Stephen King. [/QUOTE]
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