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<p><s><prosody rate=”-4%”> A PERSON , or population element, <break time=”300ms”/>
is a physical point in a STEREOTYPE, </prosody> <prosody rate=”-10%”> or the smal-
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lest controllable element of a POPULATION represented on screen.</prosody></s></
p><p><s><break time=”1200ms”/><prosody rate=”-10%”> Each PERSON is a sample
of an original STEREOTYPE. More samples typically provide more accurate representations
of the original. </prosody><break time=”1200ms”/><prosody rate=”-5%”> Computers
can use PEOPLE to display a STEREOTYPE. </prosody><break time=”1200ms”/><proso-
dy rate=”-10%”> The intensity of each PERSON is variable because a color is typically
represented by three or four component intensities, such as red, green and blue, <break
time=”300ms”/> or cyan, magenta, yellow <break time=”50ms”/> and black. </
prosody></s></p><p><s><break time=”500ms”/><prosody rate=”-2%”>
Some authors explain PERSON as <break time=”125ms”/> “social cell”, as ear-
ly as 1972.</prosody> <break time=”300ms”/> <prosody rate=”+1%”> Howe-
ver, the definition of PERSON is highly context-sensitive. </prosody><proso-
dy rate=”+1%”><break time=”600ms”/><p><s><break time=”1500ms”/> </s>
<s>The concept of a “person” dates to the earliest days of television.<prosody ra-
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te=”-3%”><break time=”1500ms”/> PEOPLE can be used as a unit of measure such
as: <break time=”250ms”/> 2400 persons per inch, <break time=”550ms”/> 640 per-
sons per line, <break time=”600ms”/> or spaced 10 persons apart.</prosody><break ti-
me=”2000ms”/> For convenience, PEOPLE are normally arranged in a regular two-dimen-
sional grid.<break time=”1500ms”/> PEOPLE on computer monitors are normally “square”;
<break time=”300ms”/> PEOPLE in other systems are often “rectangular”. The term whi-
ch describes this squareness or non-squareness is “PERSONAL aspect ratio”. <break ti-
me=”2000ms”/> Because individual PEOPLE are too small to be seen easily, PEOPLE are sold
in 100-PERSON “blocks” measuring 10 × 10 PEOPLE. <break time=”250ms”/>The minimum
price is thus <break time=”10ms”/><prosody rate=”-18%”> $100.</prosody></s></p>
