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From: lambert@piring.cwi.nl (Lambert Meertens)
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Subject: Re: What to know & universal icons
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Date: 24 Aug 89 16:38:31 GMT
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In article <19238@mimsy.UUCP> don@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Don Hopkins) writes:
) Here are my entries in the universal icon contest. I have my doubts
) that they are really universal, but I have not had the chance to test
) them out on any genuine space aliens yet to be sure.
) 
) Icon 3, down or back:
) 
) 	  *
) 	  *
) 	  *
) 	*****
) 	 ***
) 	  *
) 
) Icon 0 and Icon 1 seem less ambiguous to me than Icon 2 and Icon 3, which 
) could each mean two different directions.

On overhead signs on highways Icon 3 means "forward".

Icon 0

) 	  *
) 	 **
) 	********
) 	 **
) 	  *

unmistakably depicts a goose flying towards the right -- no space aliens
needed there.

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--Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam; lambert@cwi.nl