conciseness

A masterpiece of conciseness at 32 pages, the paper set forth a solution to the “hidden line problem,” which applied to how computers could draw the outline of a form partially hidden behind another — for example, part of a triangle obscured by a ball — so that all the visible sides and angles line up convincingly.

Maybe a little time off and the shedding of other botched TV projects along with lessons learned from his Netflix hit, reminded Gaiman to value conciseness, economy and a skilled writing partner.

“Dear xxx” notes: Dear President Lincoln: Please note change to “87” for conciseness.

“There’s a brevity, a kind of conciseness that comes from the format,” Porter says.

“I love that conciseness, that density,” Garcia says of those works.