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> image of an apple, stored as an analog signal on a magnetic tape

If I am following along...

analog virtual: representation of apple on photographic film digital physical: disc with film.mkv

Given the two remaining combinations:

analog physical: unexposed photographic film? digital virtual: binary-encoded data (film.mkv)?

Anything beyond this and it becomes a philosophical or metaphysical discussion though.

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Another example of Analog Virtual is Hokusai's The Great Wave (and similar prints). I recently watched David Bull's videos about his recreation of it [0] and it was fascinating to hear him tell about how even the "original" prints were made from slightly different woodblocks made in the same workshop.

[0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK-Wicsj5rAasS2g7e-Z9eFUd...

>digital virtual: binary-encoded data

Arguably the raw binary data still has a physical aspect, because it hasn't been interpreted yet (other than a reordering by the file system). The virtual thing is what the data ultimately represents.

Another subtlety is that a drawing on a page would be an analog representation of the thing, but if the drawing has the shape 右 and the page is placed between two doors, there would be a virtual idea encoded digitally as well.

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