The text material in J. Yellow Douglas’ Gaps, Maps, and Perceptions: What Hypertext Readers (don’t) do, points out that the events witness as film is just a series of cuts. That the cuts present a story that the viewer’s mine set the stage for what it perceives.
The viewer’s perception fills in the gutters that align and form the story as in the cuts and reformatting of text in Bustdown the Door, Calvino’s novel, and Hejirascope. The series of cuts lead the mind to see elements that may or may not be present. Understanding Comics set the series of cuts in a boarder while your brain bridges the material’s gutters with your own precepts.
I noticed that my mind began to form perception when I was viewing Hejirascope. Douglas points out that human perception have biases toward “seeing causality and intention even where these qualities may not exit. Although, hypertext may seem new, its fundamental attributes as related to perception was study over 20 years ago in Belgium. The Belgium study observed subject who watched animated images all conclude that they saw causation connected to the movement of the images.
Seeing connections in hypertext, Douglas Hofstadter suggests, “is perhaps the single definitive characteristic of intelligent behavior."