In the pictorial tradition, value refers to the total index of light realized in the Picture Plane.
The organization of shadows in reference to one or more light sources on a scale of value is what gives reality its Realism.
The incremental turning of the earth away from the sun creates a range of values from which to draw from.
What makes possible the perception of the infinite within the bounded context of reality is the language of surface, edge, shape, color and substratum elevated as painting and modeled in the history of representation
Before we had browsers we had ways of working by pointing to an adequate infinity modeled with accuracy.