An entertaining article written by an author operating under the pseudonym Oleg McNoleg on the origins of geographic space. The Tessellati live in northern Europe on the husbanding of a highly territorial, wooly, egg-laying dairy pig. Since there is only a small amount of available land and the pigs are intolerant of all other life forms, a highly-organized system was developed where each pig lived in a regulation-sized pigcell to ensure optimal packing density. The Tessellati’s story comes to a short end as their diet consisting solely of this pig-splice-product takes a toll on their health. In a far-away tropical land, the Vectules live on the edge of an angry ocean. To survive, they must rely on the absence of parrots (who were a result of a genetic experiment gone bad) on high tree branches to escape the rising of ocean waters, a result of global warming. This tribe however progressed: “they moved inland and developed a taste for barbecued parrot” (2).
Of course, the conclusions greatly aid the understanding of the article. The Tessellati represent the raster data structure (‘pigcell’ = ‘pixel’) and the Vectules represent the vector data structure (‘abscence of parrot’ = ‘poly-gone’ = ‘polygon’). This story-telling version of the theory of geographic space is definitely an interesting way of explaining it, and this article should unquestionably be assigned reading for GEOG 201. Besides, the article is wrapped-up with the most humorous corollary.
– Solfar
It is important not to abstract the article but to provide a critical analysis. Admittedly, not so easy with an article like McNoleg.