Polished wood surfaces on furniture look smooth, but are actually hyper scratched, just to a level of detail below our ability to perceive.

· Bits and Bobs 8/3/26
  • Polished wood surfaces on furniture look smooth, but are actually hyper scratched, just to a level of detail below our ability to perceive.
    • You start with coarse sandpaper and work through progressively finer grits until the surface feels smooth.
    • The first massive jumps in smoothness take as much work as the later tiny improvements in smoothness.
    • The same fundamentally logarithmic curve of fidelity that shows up everywhere, including in product development.