Brief summary of the Geometron language concept with illustrations

1. Geometron:
A Purely Geometric Computer Language
Lafe Spietz
@lafelabs
@lafelabs
lafelabs@gmail.com

2. Traditional Computer languages:
• Numbers and words:

3. Geometron Glyph “spelling”
• Not numbers!
• Not words!
Geometric actions
create symbol
Symbol glyphs
describe actions

4. Geometron Language:
• Geometric actions are represented by symbols
• Symbols are all made up of geometric actions
Geometric
Actions
Geometric
Symbols
Create
Describe

5. Symbols From Actions, Actions from Symbols
Most of Geometron is
itself written in
Geometron

6. Symmetry Glyphs

7. Scale Glyphs

8. Move and Draw
Set symmetry
move
Draw circle

9. Symbols Typed on Keyboard
Symbols are edited by editing symbols the same way
text is edited: by typing, deleting, and moving the
cursor with arrows

10. Dissecting the Hexagon
Natural
symmetries and
scales:

11. Dissecting the Pentagon

12. Fractals: Symbols Made from Symbols

13. Geometron Virtual Machine:
Independent of Technology
Pixels Ink + Crayon

14. Generalized Symbols:
Any Geometry with Meaning
• Architecture
• Microelectronics
• Letters and characters 汉字 한글
• Symbols

15. Geometron:
A Universal Symbolic Language
Geometron can change how we
interact with all types of symbol,
can build new languages from
which symbols are built

16. Symbols publish directly to Web
Edit in browser
Save to Server
Instantly view in any web browser on
the Internet (billions of devices!)

17. Join!
• Learn how to edit Geometron symbols
• Create your own specialized symbolic languages
• Fork and edit the code to customize for specific applications
• Publish everything to the web instantly and share
• Incorporate Geometron into your existing workflows
• Build a new symbolic web, of free and open symbols which link both
web pages and physical things(the Symbolic Web of Things)