ICON PURITY — TOWARD A FORMAL THEORY OF ICONS

1 December 1987

journal article
Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Vol. 1 (3) , 377-392
https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218001487000254

Abstract

In this paper, we give purity-preserving conditions for iconic operators, and present a formal definition of degree of icon purity by extending an icon system to a fuzzy icon system, based upon the theory of fuzzy sets. We also show an icon system can be modeled by means of an attribute grammar.

Keywords

ICONS
ICONIC LANGUAGES
VISUAL LANGUAGES
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS