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...most of the time, Disney does achieve a satisfying balance, particularly in the orchestration and visual description of a Bach fuge. The musicians themselves are first seen playing amid fantastic shadows and color. Then parts of the musical instruments, dissembled as in a Picasso abstraction, vibrate to the melodies. And finally, as the music builds up, the instruments become flashing linear descriptions of the themes...
...trouble, thinks Commander George W. Hoover of the Office of Naval Research, is that the aircraft's swarm of instruments make their reports in figures, usually the positions of needles on round dials. The pilot's brain, however, is designed to work with pictures taken from a visual world. Before the instrument readings mean anything to it, the brain must transpose and combine them into something like a visual picture. It takes time for the brain to function as a rather slow computer, and the time permitted by modern aircraft grows less and less...
Commander Hoover believes that the best solution of this problem will be to make the instruments' reports as visual as possible. A simple example is to make the altimeter display a line that rises with increasing altitude, instead of the present clocklike dial, which demands interpretation by the pilot...
...ultimate instrument system, says Commander Hoover, should be completely visual. When the pilot runs into thick weather and loses sight of the ground, a screen before him will light up, showing him a map of the ground below. The moving silhouette of a small airplane will tell him his position, and a luminous curve on the map will tell him how far he can fly without running out of fuel. Another luminous screen will show him a radar view of the terrain ahead, with mountains or other obstacles. These meaning-packed pictures will be the output of a lightweight computer...
...Brown report, produced last spring by a special Committee on the Visual Arts at Harvard, recommended the construction of a Design Center, the merger of the faculties of Fine Arts and Design, the construction of a Harvard Theatre, and certain changes in the Fine Arts curriculum for undergraduates...