Pushing the Raman principle
Clayton Lewis · 2013
T V Raman has said, "The way to think about the visual system is as a way to answer queries against a spatial database. If you have an alternate way to ask the queries and get the answers, you don't need the visual system." If we push this Raman Principle, where can it take us? This paper describes one application of the Raman Principle, the Noodle system for non-visual visual programming. It then offers some reflections on the larger implications of the Principle.