Consider another example. The cartoon in Figure 8.4 depicts a pattern of flowers on the hillside of the harbor in the city of Victoria on Canada’s Vancouver Island. I’ve occasionally ridden a high-speed ferry from Seattle that docks in the Victoria harbor. Once, while standing on the bow of the ferry boat as it came into the harbor, I noticed this pattern of red and yellow flowers on the hillside. While I was still at some distance, the pattern caught my attention and made me curious, so I put on my glasses. When I did, I immediately made a design inference. Why? I realized the red and yellow
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