(Q - galore: that's why there are a lot of leads that they dropped when the Specifications were published)
MB : it is true that the major advantage of the Specifications, rather of the instructions in fact, is to put the importance of the visuals into perspective, but we should not deduce from this either that the visuals have a secondary role that would be a mistake.
(Q - galore: you mean that the visuals have a role to play in addition to the text of the Specifications?)
MB : not in addition, I mean that what appears in the visuals, what was requested in the visuals actually has an importance in solving the puzzles. The excess into which we must not fall is to say the visuals are not that important, ok we understand, well a square, a thing, a morse code... don't go too quickly either , there are very important things in the visuals.
(Q - galore: in fact the simple text would be sufficient in itself without graphic interpretation?)
MB : yes we can say it like that. But the major role of the visuals is the interpretation that Max Valentin made of them.
MB : it is true that the major advantage of the Specifications, rather of the instructions in fact, is to put the importance of the visuals into perspective, but we should not deduce from this either that the visuals have a secondary role that would be a mistake.
(Q - galore: you mean that the visuals have a role to play in addition to the text of the Specifications?)
MB : not in addition, I mean that what appears in the visuals, what was requested in the visuals actually has an importance in solving the puzzles. The excess into which we must not fall is to say the visuals are not that important, ok we understand, well a square, a thing, a morse code... don't go too quickly either , there are very important things in the visuals.
(Q - galore: in fact the simple text would be sufficient in itself without graphic interpretation?)
MB : yes we can say it like that. But the major role of the visuals is the interpretation that Max Valentin made of them.