Hmm, not sure I quite buy into that. Leastways, I am imagining/interpreting it differently.

For one, when you said why do it in 4x4 if it can be done in 1x1, I interpreted that to mean that the final product was 1x1 with the same amount of detail, not that you just freed up fifteen additional 1x1 blocks.

I think I also see it differently because you can't keep that size "restraint" in writing. The more detail you add, the bigger it gets. So a detailed drabble becomes a drouble, becomes a tribble, etc.

I can sort of see what you're thinking, because you're making something and making it more complex with both. I suppose it would be like typing with 4 point font size: 100 words take up less physical space on the page freeing up more blank page for other words. But in my head, thats cheating not the same as adding more detail to a set-size image space. With writing, once the page is full, the page is full. I'll ignore the glories of technology and pretend we are physically writing with, gasp, a pen.

Basically, the way I see it is that the image remains the same size while becoming more detailed while a story gets inevitably larger as detail is added.

And maybe it all comes down to you being an optimist and me being a pessimist. ;D

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