Visual Languages for People

Pre-computer visual languages: hieroglyphics, Chinese, Bliss Symbols.

Post-computer visual languages: MinSpeak, Elephant memory, Vedo-Vedi.

A good computer-based visual language has not only a syntax and semantics for people but for the computer as well.

Rather than a set of computations, we are concerned with an “ontology” or set of possible meanings.

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