{"id":20533,"date":"2018-11-23T18:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T23:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20533"},"modified":"2018-11-23T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T23:39:21","slug":"generative-visual-grammars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=20533","title":{"rendered":"Generative visual grammars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am fascinated by the idea of visual languages that arise as generative grammars<\/i> from an initial set of visual icons. There is a rough analogy to the way that natural languages can be described as generative grammars according to Chompskyan theory.<\/p>\n

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To give a simple example, here is the visual symbol for Mars:
\n\"icon1\"<\/a>This is can be used to represent “male”.<\/p>\n

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And here is the visual symbol for Venus:
\n\"icon2\"<\/a>This is can be used to represent “female”.<\/p>\n

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We can generatively combine these, to obtain a visual symbol containing both “male” and “female” parts:
\n\"icon3\"<\/a>This can be used to represent “hermaphrodite”.<\/p>\n

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Finally, we can create a grammatical construct that consists of two males dominating a single female, to form a “devil’s triangle”:
\n\"icon4\"<\/a>This can be used to represent Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am fascinated by the idea of visual languages that arise as generative grammars from an initial set of visual icons. There is a rough analogy to the way that natural languages can be described as generative grammars according to Chompskyan theory.   To give a simple example, here is the visual symbol for Mars: … Continue reading “Generative visual grammars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20543,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions\/20543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}