Redundancy and Entropy

Redundancy and Entropy

Redundancy

 - is something which is predictable within a message.. if the message in a piece of text is expected/predictable it makes it highly redundant. 

This picture is highly redundant.
There are no oddities about this picture.

This picture has low degrees of redundancy.
This is because it is unexpected.

Entropy

 - is the opposite of redundancy.. unpredictability. If an image is unexpected, or doesn't make its main meaning/purpose clear then it is entropic. 

This picture is highly entropic. Either of these characters on their own
would make the picture redundant, but because they are seen together gives it added entropy/unpredictability. 

OK GO - here it goes again. 

- this video is highly entropic. It depicts the band dancing across treadmills for the duration of the song, which has nothing to do with dancing or treadmills. The video has low degrees of redundancy because it has no obvious links to the song.