Chapter 6

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CONNECT YOURDIGITAL DOTS

If you stand too close to the painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by French impressionist Georges Seurat, you don’t see much of anything at all. It just looks like a series of dots scattered across a canvas. As you step back, the whole comes into focus as the sum of all of the parts. Through his pointillism technique, Seurat created a science of color and light among these dots, which your eyes ultimately connect. View these microscopic elements independently and they aren’t remarkable at all. View them in concert with one another and you have a work of art.

These dots are similar to ...

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