1. Talking With Pictures
A Business Idea To Create A Website
Where People Can Communicate
Using Pictures Instead of Words
2. Talking With Pictures
Why don’t we use pictures to communicate when
everybody understands them much better than
words?
It’s because we don’t have rules to form pictures into
sentences. What we need is a visual grammar.
This presentation provides a very basic introduction to
how we can create a visual grammar.
3. I Developed The Concept Of Frames To
Create The Rules Of A Visual Grammar
Every picture will have a frame around it. Rules will be encoded in icons
inside the frame. I am provisionally referring to them as frameicons.
Different parts of speech will have different frameicons.
4. An Example of a Noun
and the Rules Applied to It
A profile of a head represents a person or people. The circles frameicon
represents one, few and many people. The first circle is selected to represent
one person. If the profile faces right it is I or us. If it faces left it is you or them.
The silhouette above is of one person facing right so it is I or ME
5. An Example of a Verb
and the Rules Applied to It
The above picture represents running. The triangular
frameicon represents future and past tense. The future one is
selected meaning will run. If neither is selected it means am
running. If both are highlighted it means shall have run
6. Example of a Complete Sentence
The above picture has the past tense triangle selected and the
individual circle selected. It is facing left so the sentence reads
“You have run.”
7. Abstract Concepts Can Be Represented
by Non Verbal Things Like Color
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Different colors represent different feelings and emotions. For
example, yellow represents happiness. The above picture can be
interpreted as “I am Happy”
8. Building The Language of the Web
The next step is to create comprehensive rules that will give structure
and meaning to multiple images so that people can talk with pictures.
If you want to be involved in this project or provide constructive
input contact us at picturetalk@outlook.com
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