CollectionsCanBecome

Last edit October 31, 2014
Initially Collections are only the result of an AccumulationProcess - ButUnless - They may lead to becoming an SingleArtifact - ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20141031 0800
Some people are collection animals - gathering a bunch of stuff and putting in a container or two or many, for FuturePurposes

While Collections may appear to be only a StackOfStuff, each collection is in a sense the stuff for making of single things.
  • WeNeedExamples
    • A book is a collection (a stack) of pages
    • A painting is an assembly of colored pigments
    • A drawing is a positioning of symbolic elements
    • and some more of TheOtherThings

Some things which are a StackOfStuff lend themselves to assembly or forming processes into artifacts because they are already organized when piled up.

Other stacks are ConfusedTangledAndUseless, ButUnless, they may become orderly by a process of organization and filtering, where stuff is taken from the pile and sorted into two piles:
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