The Emergence Machine

Widescreen

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

A film with an aspect ratio wider than the standard, building upon the self-contained storytelling medium of film and the proportional relationship between the width and height of a film frame.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “widescreen” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “widescreen”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
widescreen
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL14L13L12L11L2L1L0WidescreenAspect RatioCinemaFilm… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesWidescreenL14FilmL11CinemaL12Aspect RatioL13E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Film L11 (requires)
    A film format with an aspect ratio wider than the standard 1.
  • Cinema L12 (requires)
    This is a cinema-related concept; understanding cinema comes first
  • Aspect Ratio L13 (requires)
    A film format with an aspect ratio wider than the standard 1.