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From: andrea@hp-sdd.hp.com (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.edu,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: What to know & universal icons
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Date: 25 Aug 89 21:19:40 GMT
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Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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In article <1359@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> tainter@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (johnathan.tainter,ih,) writes:
>In article <19238@mimsy.UUCP> don@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Don Hopkins) writes:
>>So what *is* is about arrows that make them seem to indicate
>>direction?
>
>Convention.  Probably rooted in early cultural training that one points
>an arrow at (approximately) what one is hunting rather than some other
>direction.

How about:  the wake that a swimming animal|person|duck|boat makes in
the water?  The triangle always fans out behind the point.


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
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