THE ARCHITECTURE OF
         THE TESSERACT MUSEUM
          OF SHAMELESS IMAGES 
                                 
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      MUSEUM OF SHAMELESS IMAGES:
        an electronic edifice 
       made up of epigraphs and
      sights whose architecture 
     has no peers in the history
of publishing, electronic or otherwise. 
                                 
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      The structure of the Museum
        is that of a Tesseract.
  The Tesseract is a "solid" geometric
   figure which, although portrayable
          in two dimensions 
   (as the plane of the video monitor),
    cannot actually exist in three.
   The Dutch artist M.C. Escher alone
             has succeeded 
  in rendering convincing simulations.
                       
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     Although a "quasi" Tesseract
   book has always been the dream of
         master typographers, 
 in all the world only a few examples
                 exist.
      A number of illustrations
 of perhaps the best example of these, 
a textbook on photographic technique,
      have been included in this CD.
                                
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   This Advanced Electronic Tesseract
     Book is made up more of images
            than epigraphs. 
  Each of its digitalized images forms
        the face of a polygon.
                            
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 Computer Science, through the theory
      of the Advanced Electronic
Book, has made possible the concrete
    hypothesis of a nearly perfect
               Tesseract.
 (Perfection remains, however, Utopian).
             This CD is the
       only practical translation
          of this hypothesis.